Climate change is no longer a distant threat, but a present-day reality demanding urgent action. While the Earth’s climate has always fluctuated, the current pace of change is unprecedented. Across Asia, warming exacerbates flood risks, weaving a complex web of challenges due to the region’s diverse geography and climate. Evaluating flood resilience is now critical to navigating these challenges and mitigating the impacts of climate change on communities across the region.
The key objectives of the present work are twofold. First, we investigate flood related projects, focusing on an analysis of flood resilience in Asia. Second, we build a suite of flood resilience indices (indicators) for a selection of Asian countries to describe their fundamental properties. In addition, we develop a suite of flood resilience indices based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) analysis. We then employ these indices to assess the recovery capabilities of local governments in areas prone to floods.