An Integrated Approach Towards Developing Flood Risk Maps and an Assessment Framework for Nature-Based Solutions

This thesis aims to develop an integrated approach to quantifying flood risk, which can evaluate flood impacts' damage to communities and determine the best nature-based solutions (NBS) to effectively mitigate flood impacts for the study area. It was found that afforestation is the most suitable NBS for mitigating floods in the study area. The methodology developed in this research can be adopted as a blueprint to ensure practical and effective flood mitigation measures are implemented within flood-prone areas. Therefore, the findings of this project could contribute to minimising losses of lives and infrastructures in the catchments prone to flood.