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Record W4416084746 · doi:10.1017/9781009633574.004

Cities and Riverine Flooding

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWater Governance and Infrastructure
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFlood mythFlooding (psychology)FloodplainHazardPopulationFlood stageUrban planningChannel (broadcasting)

Abstract

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This chapter focuses on how urban development relates to riverine flood risk. It begins with an overview of flooding and related riverine processes (e.g., sediment transport, floodplain formation, channel migration). It then presents the urban development and flood histories of Vienna (Austria) on the Danube and Calgary (Canada) on the Bow River, including the latter’s 2013 flood disaster. The cases are assessed and compared using the Urban Risk Dynamics framework. Vienna and Calgary demonstrate several key themes, including the “levee effect.” Each city’s relationship with the river has been one of technological control, intensifying over time. During periods of major population growth, flood protection investments are made that allow the city to expand into hazard lands. Once set in motion, the reliance on technology for flood protection becomes self-reinforcing, difficult to reverse as more of the city comes to depend on it. Over time, there is a loss of collective memory about flood risk. The role of government becomes increasingly important. Disaster events lead to learning and adaptation but do not fundamentally alter processes of urban development that give rise to risk.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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