FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysis
The European ‘Floods Directive’ 2007/60/EC focuses on the development of flood risk maps and management plans on the basis of the most appropriate and advanced tools. This pushed a paradigm shift for moving to sustainable development through processes of stakeholder engagement to improve the efficie...
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| author | Raffaele Albano Leonardo Mancusi Aurelia Sole Jan Adamowski |
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| description | The European ‘Floods Directive’ 2007/60/EC focuses on the development of flood risk maps and management plans on the basis of the most appropriate and advanced tools. This pushed a paradigm shift for moving to sustainable development through processes of stakeholder engagement to improve the efficiency and transparency of decision processes. In this context, this research project developed a free and open-source GIS software, called FloodRisk, to operatively support stakeholders in their compliance with risk map delineation and the management of current and future flood risk based on their needs for multi-purpose applications. In this paper, a high-resolution impact assessment framework based on 2D inundation modelling with different return periods was used, as input, within the FloodRisk model to reconstruct the socio-economic damages based on a case study showing how structural and non-structural measures can significantly decrease the cost of floods for households. The sensitivity of the FloodRisk model was also examined and it was found to be highly dependent on the selection of damage functions and the economic values of the exposed assets. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-99f3ffc5ed234433b7a5cbd4040434092022-12-22T01:34:36ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGeomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk1947-57051947-57132017-12-01821812183210.1080/19475705.2017.13888541388854FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysisRaffaele Albano0Leonardo Mancusi1Aurelia Sole2Jan Adamowski3University of BasilicataResearch on Energy Systems SpAUniversity of BasilicataMcGill UniversityThe European ‘Floods Directive’ 2007/60/EC focuses on the development of flood risk maps and management plans on the basis of the most appropriate and advanced tools. This pushed a paradigm shift for moving to sustainable development through processes of stakeholder engagement to improve the efficiency and transparency of decision processes. In this context, this research project developed a free and open-source GIS software, called FloodRisk, to operatively support stakeholders in their compliance with risk map delineation and the management of current and future flood risk based on their needs for multi-purpose applications. In this paper, a high-resolution impact assessment framework based on 2D inundation modelling with different return periods was used, as input, within the FloodRisk model to reconstruct the socio-economic damages based on a case study showing how structural and non-structural measures can significantly decrease the cost of floods for households. The sensitivity of the FloodRisk model was also examined and it was found to be highly dependent on the selection of damage functions and the economic values of the exposed assets.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2017.1388854flood risk managementflood costs assessmentgiscost–benefit analysissensitivity analysis |
| spellingShingle | Raffaele Albano Leonardo Mancusi Aurelia Sole Jan Adamowski FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysis Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk flood risk management flood costs assessment gis cost–benefit analysis sensitivity analysis |
| title | FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysis |
| title_full | FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysis |
| title_fullStr | FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysis |
| title_short | FloodRisk: a collaborative, free and open-source software for flood risk analysis |
| title_sort | floodrisk a collaborative free and open source software for flood risk analysis |
| topic | flood risk management flood costs assessment gis cost–benefit analysis sensitivity analysis |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2017.1388854 |
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