FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards
With projected changes in climate, population and socioeconomic activity located in flood-prone areas, the global assessment of flood risk is essential to inform climate change policy and disaster risk management. Whilst global flood risk models exist for this purpose, the accuracy of their results...
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| author | P. Scussolini J. C. J. H. Aerts B. Jongman L. M. Bouwer H. C. Winsemius H. de Moel P. J. Ward |
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| description | With projected changes in climate, population and socioeconomic activity
located in flood-prone areas, the global assessment of flood risk is
essential to inform climate change policy and disaster risk management.
Whilst global flood risk models exist for this purpose, the accuracy of
their results is greatly limited by the lack of information on the current
standard of protection to floods, with studies either neglecting this aspect
or resorting to crude assumptions. Here we present a first global database
of FLOod PROtection Standards, FLOPROS, which comprises information in the
form of the flood return period associated with protection measures, at
different spatial scales. FLOPROS comprises three layers of information, and
combines them into one consistent database. The <i>design</i> layer contains
empirical information about the actual standard of existing protection
already in place; the <i>policy</i> layer contains information on protection
standards from policy regulations; and the <i>model</i> layer uses a validated
modelling approach to calculate protection standards. The policy layer and
the model layer can be considered adequate proxies for actual protection
standards included in the design layer, and serve to increase the spatial
coverage of the database. Based on this first version of FLOPROS, we suggest
a number of strategies to further extend and increase the resolution of the
database. Moreover, as the database is intended to be continually updated,
while flood protection standards are changing with new interventions,
FLOPROS requires input from the flood risk community. We therefore invite
researchers and practitioners to contribute information to this evolving
database by corresponding to the authors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b92f67971cc440e49953690f8c71b8212022-12-22T00:32:48ZengCopernicus PublicationsNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences1561-86331684-99812016-05-011651049106110.5194/nhess-16-1049-2016FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standardsP. Scussolini0J. C. J. H. Aerts1B. Jongman2L. M. Bouwer3H. C. Winsemius4H. de Moel5P. J. Ward6Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the NetherlandsInstitute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the NetherlandsInstitute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the NetherlandsDeltares, P.O. Box 177, 2600 MH Delft, the NetherlandsDeltares, P.O. Box 177, 2600 MH Delft, the NetherlandsInstitute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the NetherlandsInstitute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the NetherlandsWith projected changes in climate, population and socioeconomic activity located in flood-prone areas, the global assessment of flood risk is essential to inform climate change policy and disaster risk management. Whilst global flood risk models exist for this purpose, the accuracy of their results is greatly limited by the lack of information on the current standard of protection to floods, with studies either neglecting this aspect or resorting to crude assumptions. Here we present a first global database of FLOod PROtection Standards, FLOPROS, which comprises information in the form of the flood return period associated with protection measures, at different spatial scales. FLOPROS comprises three layers of information, and combines them into one consistent database. The <i>design</i> layer contains empirical information about the actual standard of existing protection already in place; the <i>policy</i> layer contains information on protection standards from policy regulations; and the <i>model</i> layer uses a validated modelling approach to calculate protection standards. The policy layer and the model layer can be considered adequate proxies for actual protection standards included in the design layer, and serve to increase the spatial coverage of the database. Based on this first version of FLOPROS, we suggest a number of strategies to further extend and increase the resolution of the database. Moreover, as the database is intended to be continually updated, while flood protection standards are changing with new interventions, FLOPROS requires input from the flood risk community. We therefore invite researchers and practitioners to contribute information to this evolving database by corresponding to the authors.http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/16/1049/2016/nhess-16-1049-2016.pdf |
| spellingShingle | P. Scussolini J. C. J. H. Aerts B. Jongman L. M. Bouwer H. C. Winsemius H. de Moel P. J. Ward FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| title | FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards |
| title_full | FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards |
| title_fullStr | FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards |
| title_full_unstemmed | FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards |
| title_short | FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards |
| title_sort | flopros an evolving global database of flood protection standards |
| url | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/16/1049/2016/nhess-16-1049-2016.pdf |
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