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Introduction into Work Package Urban Flooding of the BMBF Megacity Research Project TP. Ho Chi Minh
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2009
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Shaker Verlag
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Urban flooding in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has been risen as one of the most concerned topics since recent decades. Thus, this topic is an important issue in the BMBF “Megacity Research Project TP. Ho Chi Minh”, coordinating by Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus. The project is divided into two Action Fields “Urban Environment” and “Urban Development” with their own respective thematic Work Packages. The Action Field “Urban Environment” encompasses five Work Packages: Adaptation Planning Framework, Urban Flooding, Urban Climate, Urban Energy, and Urban Transport (see BTU 2007 and Storch & Schmidt 2008). The Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development is co-leader of the work package Urban Flooding. The objectives of the work package „Urban Flooding“ are (1) to determine conflict areas and vulnerability for different flooding situations within HCMC, (2) to compile flood hazard maps for HCMC, and (3) to develop strategies and measures for efficient flood risk management in HCMC. Hereby one has to distinguish between hazard and risk maps. The hazard map describes the spatial distribution of flood damages for previous events, whereas the risk map displays the possible damage with a given probability of occurrence. In this paper, we report about the status quo of our work package. The main conducted work consists of (i) literature review, (ii) data collection and development of a geo-database, and (iii) initial GIS-analysis and statistical analysis of geo-database and first results.