RISK BASED APPROACH FOR ASSESSING INJURIES AND FATALITIES IN RURAL FLOODPLAIN AREA. A CASE STUDY IN VU GIA-THU BON RIVER BASIN, CENTRAL VIETNAM

Abstract

 Flood management is more and more adopting a risk based approach. This paper presents an outline approach and methodology for assessing flood hazard and social vulnerability and whereby, to deliver flood risk curve (FRC) of selected frequencies of 10%, 5%, 2% and 1% and then social annual risk in terms of people at risk, injuries and fatalities.
 An important point of the analysis process is to modify vulnerability factors to include not only direct and tangible issues but also indirect and intangible ones to be applicable in rural area of the developing countries as in Central Vietnam. The overall objective of this study is to produce a quantitative estimation of the human safety risk caused by flood disaster in the years to come.