An Operational Framework for Urban Vulnerability to Floods in the Guayas Estuary Region: The Duran Case Study
, Mijail Arias-Hidalgo 2,4,5, David Matamoros 2,5,6, Indira Nolivos 1,5, Gonzalo Menoscal-Aldas 7, Federica Valle 8, Alessandro Pezzoli 9 and Maria del Pilar Cornejo-Rodriguez 1,2Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors,
I am listing a minor issue in the manuscript:
- Use appropriate acronyms throughout the manuscript. Please check Line 107 for geographic information system and Line 127 : IPCC. As description of IPCC has been mentioned in the earlier lines, just mentioning the acronym in rest of the manuscript would be more appropriate.
- Lines 146 to 151 have been repeated in Lines 140 to 145.
- Line 262, Figure 2 should be Figure 4.
- Line 379, please check if "spatial vulnerability" should be changed to "social vulnerability".
Author Response
My co-authors and I appreciate your comments and suggestions. As follow we describe the responses to your comments:
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Use appropriate acronyms throughout the manuscript. Please check Line 107 for geographic information system and Line 127: IPCC. As description of IPCC has been mentioned in the earlier lines, just mentioning the acronym in rest of the manuscript would be more appropriate. |
The acronyms have been corrected in the specific lines and we have checked |
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Lines 146 to 151 have been repeated in Lines 140 to 145 |
The lines 151 - 157 have been deleted |
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Line 262, Figure 2 should be Figure 4 |
Edited |
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Line 379, please check if "spatial vulnerability" should be changed to "social vulnerability |
Changed to “social vulnerability” |
Reviewer 2 Report
This is a work that addresses a question of interest today. The methodology and the analysis presented are accurate and results can serve as a help to urban planners. The novelty of the work is not clear.
Could the authors remark the novelty of the work. This should be presented in addition to the state of art of this kind of vulnerability studies to flood events that is not included at all.
In the proposed framework I miss data like that obtained from hydraulic models to obtain relation between precipitation and flooding and other analyses that calculate the monetization of the damage. How this kind of information could have influenced in the proposed framework? What kind of data if available could have improved the framework?
All the limitations presented are mainly referred to quality and to the level of detail of the data and no other limitations related to the type of analysis are included in the limitations. Some comments about this should be included.
Once the framework is created…which should be next steps in terms of recommendations about how high urban vulnerability to floods. Which would be the next steps in the case or urban planners that make this work useful. Could the authors make some comments about this?
Author Response
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