Urban pluvial floods have become more and more common in Europe. These floods have resulted in high costs for society, increasing the interest in conducting hydraulic flood models. This in order to prepare and minimise the consequences of these flood events. The study looked at how changing the temporal distribution of the rain using six type events, and whether using the runoff coefficient method or infiltration method in such a model, would impact the flood extent and flood depth for a 100-year return period rain event. The model is made using MIKE+ for a catchment area in Malmö, Sweden.  The results showed that the runoff coefficient method generally overestimated both the flood extent and the maximum flood depth compared to the infiltration method. The differences were however very small between the methods, only between 6-7% over the catchment. For the six different temporal distributions for the rain event, the conclusion could be drawn that the flood extent follows a clear pattern from largest to smallest while no individual type event could be seen to give the deepest flood. Instead, this varied across the different evaluation points. / Urbana pluviala översvämningar har blivit ett allt vanligare fenomen i Europa. Dessa översvämningar medför stora kostnader för samhället. Intresset av att genomföra hydrauliska översvämningsmodeller som ett hjälpmedel till att hitta lämpliga skydd, och därmed minimera konsekvenserna av översvämningarna har ökat. Denna studie har utvärderat två olika mål. Dels hur en ändring av den temporala utbredningen av sex olika typ-regn påverkar utbredning och djup för en översvämning. Dels hur valet av infiltrationsmetoden eller avrinningskoefficient-metoden i en modell för ett 100-års regn event påverkar utbredning och djup av översvämningen. Modellen är byggd i MIKE+ och gäller för ett avrinningsområde i Malmö, Sverige.  Resultatet visade att avrinningskoefficient metoden generellt överskattar både utbredningen och djupet av översvämningen när den jämförs med infiltrationsmetoden. Skillnaderna var däremot små, mellan 6-7 % över avrinningsområdet. För de sex olika typ-regnen så visade resultatet att det fanns ett mönster där en vänsterpik var större än en högerpik när det gällde hur stor utbredningen var. Däremot så varierade djupet på översvämningen relativt stort i de olika utvärderings-punkterna beroende på typ-event.

This thesis, as a case study, focuses on the perspective of foreign news reports on Taiwan’s first time hosting an international multi-sport event, the World Games 2009 in its biggest port city Kaohsiung. The World Games 2009 Kaohsiung, the significant Olympic type mega-event as to Taiwan, is applied as the approach to public diplomacy and soft power for the purpose of expanding Taiwan’s international space. It is expected to raise publicity and mass media exposure to boost Taiwan’s international profile and spur its tourism industry. From Taiwan’s image-marketing strategy, practices to foreign news reports, it outweighs to study foreign media’s reflection on Taiwan and the World Games 2009 as the important evaluation on the mega-event as a whole. This thesis attempts to answer two research questions: How was the World Games 2009 Kaohsiung reported by the foreign media? Did hosting the World Games improve Taiwan’s image? It presents the results and perspectives of foreign news reports by qualitative methods: case study and discourse analysis of online-English news reports and some quantitative methods applied on data. It combines news reports study with theory, model of public diplomacy, mega-event and expected-model. Within 101 pieces of online-English news found related to the World Games 2009, it unveils fruitful results such as the failure of interpreting the core story (Taiwan’s images and values) by foreign media during the sporting extravaganza, and it echoes Rivenburgh (2004)’s three viewpoints toward the Olympic type event (intercultural challenges, less news about host country’s culture and dramatic news). By the amount of news and the absence of foreign media on the press conference indicates that foreign media did not pay much attention to the World Games and Taiwan. In spite of reporting the sports and games, other major topics of reports were Taiwan’s hosting the event, the greenest solar-powered stadium designed by Japanese, Toyo Ito, Chu Chen’s promotion itinerary to Beijing and China’s absence on the opening and closing ceremony which triggered foreign media’s great concern.