Integrated flood risk analysis for assessing flood protection strategies

[en] The present chapter describes an end-to-end methodology for assessing flood protection strategies, including the whole methodological process from hydrological statistics to detailed 2D hydraulic modelling, damage calculation and flood risk evaluation. This risk-based approach serves as a component of a decision-support system (DSS) developed in Belgium for identifying cost-effective flood management strategies in the context of climate change. The DSS accounts for both hydraulic and socio-economic parameters to quantify the benefits (in terms of avoided risk) and the cost of each strategy. Besides reviewing fundamentals of flood risk assessment, including the inundation model and main concepts related to flood risk, a consistent methodology for micro-scale flood risk analysis is presented in detail, combining complementary sources of GIS information such as high resolution and high accuracy land use database as well as socio-economic datasets. Finally a case study on a main tributary of river Meuse in Belgium is described.

Research center :

Aquapôle - ULiège

Disciplines :

Civil engineering

Author, co-author :

Ernst, Julien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F > Hydrodynamique appl. et constructions hydrauliques (HACH)

Dewals, Benjamin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F > Hydrodynamique appl. et constructions hydrauliques (HACH)

Detrembleur, Sylvain ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F > Hydrodynamique appl. et constructions hydrauliques (HACH)

Archambeau, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F > Hydrodynamique appl. et constructions hydrauliques (HACH)

Erpicum, Sébastien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F > Hydraulique génér., const. hydraul. et méc. des fluides

Pirotton, Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F > Hydrodynamique appl. et constructions hydrauliques (HACH)

Language :

English

Title :

Integrated flood risk analysis for assessing flood protection strategies

Publication date :

May 2010

Main work title :

Handbook of Research on Hydroinformatics: Technologies Theories and Applications

Editor :

Tagelsir, Gasmelseid

Publisher :

Information Science Reference, Hershey, United States

ISBN/EAN :

9781615209071

Collection name :

Environmental Technologies

Pages :

244-263

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

http://igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=41796

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]

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