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Guangwei Huang

Sophia University Japan

Dr. Huang is a Professor at Sophia University, Japan and currently serves as the Director of Sophia’s Institute for the Studies of the Global Environment. He received his BSc from Fudan University, China; his Master\'s and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. His career includes Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo; Associate Professor at Kanazawa University; Professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. Passionate about water, his study evolved from fluid dynamics to water quality modeling and to integrated watershed science and management. In recent years, his main research focus is sustainability science from the water perspective such as wetland conservation and wise use, flood vulnerability and resilience analysis in relation to watershed planning. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in various academic journals including Natural Hazards, Hydrobiologia, Sustainability, Water, Journal of Environmental Informatics and International Journal of River Basin Management.

1books edited

3chapters authored

Latest work with IntechOpen by Guangwei Huang

The concept of resilience has been gaining momentum in various fields in recent years and has been used in various ways from a catch phrase to a cornerstone in theoretic development or practical operation. No matter how it is used, it does contribute one way or another to the refinement and application of the concept. This book focuses on the application of the resilience concept to flood disaster management. This book is a collection of research works conducted across the world and across sectors. Therefore, it is a good example of how different perspectives can catalyze our insight into complex flood-related issues. It can be considered valuable reading material for students, researchers, policymakers and practitioners, because it provides both the fundamentals and new development of resilience-based approaches and delivers a message that the goal of resilience-based flood management goes beyond disaster reduction.

Flood Impact Mitigation and Resilience Enhancement

Flood Impact Mitigation and Resilience Enhancement

Edited by Guangwei Huang

Chapters authored

New Frontiers in Flood Risk Management

By Guangwei Huang

Flood risk management has been studied extensively and intensively in many academic fields from civil engineering, sociology, economics, culture, and even psychology. However, the fact that flooding accounts for a greater number of damaging events than any other type of natural events worldwide on an yearly scale proves that our understanding of flooding is still insufficient, flawed, and fragmented. This chapter intends to shed new light on a number of issues that deserve more comprehensive study in order to advance flood risk management. As a result, a new two-layer framework of vulnerability is proposed, which can lead to a better understanding of, and new approaches to, flood risk management.

Part of the book: Recent Advances in Flood Risk Management

Research on Power Grid Resilience and Power Supply Restoration during Disasters-A Review

By Jingyi Xia, Fuguo Xu and Guangwei Huang

Electric power system plays an indispensable role in modern society, which supplies the energy to residential, commercial, and industrial consumers. However, the high-impact and low-probability natural disasters (i.e., windstorm, typhoon, and flood) come more frequent because of the climate change in the recent years, which may sequentially cause devastating damages to the infrastructure of power systems. The aim of this paper is mainly to explore and review the resilience of power grid system during the disaster and the power supply management strategies to recover the power grid. Firstly, the category of natural disasters and different influences on power grid are discussed. Then, the definition of power grid resilience is explored and the supply management strategies copying with disasters are introduced, such as microgrids and distributed generation systems. Specially, the electric vehicles (EVs) equipped with large-capacity battery pack in the transportation network can also be considered as the distributed power sources with mobility. Thus, the conceptual frameworks of integrating large-scale EVs into the power grid to fasten restoration of the power systems in the pre-disaster/post-disaster are emphatically investigated in this paper. Finally, the opportunities and challenges in further research on employing EVs for emergency power supply in the extreme weather events are also discussed.

Part of the book: Flood Impact Mitigation and Resilience Enhancement

Move from Resilience Conceptualization to Resilience Enhancement

By Guangwei Huang and Juan Fan

This chapter provides an analysis of various resilience definitions and depicts the differences in definition between engineering, ecological and socio-ecological resilience in an easy-to-understand graphic representation. It also articulates commons and differences between conventional flood risk management and resilience-based flood management and presents a mathematical formulation to facilitate resilience discussion. Furthermore, it highlights some studies and initiatives towards the operationalization of the resilience concept in flood disaster management practice. The most important message this chapter is intended to deliver is that resilience is not just about bouncing back. Indeed, it should be enhanced to bounce forward.

Part of the book: Flood Impact Mitigation and Resilience Enhancement

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