Connecting global- and local-scale flood risk assessment: a case study of the Rhine River basin flood hazard

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gusyev ◽  
A. Gädeke ◽  
J. Cullmann ◽  
J. Magome ◽  
A. Sugiura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Rhine River ◽  
Flood Risk Assessment ◽  
Global And Local

Integrated flood risk assessment and zonation method: a case study in Huaihe River basin, China

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 635-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yenan Wu ◽  
Ping-an Zhong ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Bin Xu ◽  
Biao Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Assessment ◽  
Huaihe River Basin ◽  
Huaihe River

scholarly journals A Novel Method for Evaluation of Flood Risk Reduction Strategies: Explanation of ICPR FloRiAn GIS-Tool and Its First Application to the Rhine River Basin

Geosciences ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Schmid-Breton ◽  
Gesa Kutschera ◽  
Ton Botterhuis ◽  
The ICPR Expert Group ‘Flood Risk Analysis’ (EG HIRI)
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Rhine River ◽  
Culture Heritage ◽  
Flood Risk Reduction ◽  
The Impact

To determine the effects of measures on flood risk, the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR), supported by the engineering consultant HKV has developed a method and a GIS-tool named “ICPR FloRiAn (Flood Risk Analysis)”, which enables the broad-scale assessment of the effectiveness of flood risk management measures on the Rhine, but could be also applied to other rivers. The tool uses flood hazard maps and associated recurrence periods for an overall damage and risk assessment for four receptors: human health, environment, culture heritage, and economic activity. For each receptor, a method is designed to calculate the impact of flooding and the effect of measures. The tool consists of three interacting modules: damage assessment, risk assessment, and measures. Calculations using this tool show that the flood risk reduction target defined in the Action Plan on Floods of the ICPR in 1998 could be achieved with the measures already taken and those planned until 2030. Upon request, the ICPR will provide this tool and the method to other river basin organizations, national authorities, or scientific institutions. This article presents the method and GIS-tool developed by the ICPR as well as first calculation results.

scholarly journals Available Flood Evacuation Time for High-Risk Areas in the Middle Reach of Chao Phraya River Basin

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarawut Jamrussri ◽  
Yuji Toda
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Flood Risk Assessment ◽  
Design Flood ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Flood Risk Mapping ◽  
Evacuation Plan ◽  
Chao Phraya River

Information about risk is essential to design flood risk management programs. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to develop an emergency flood evacuation plan based on flood risk assessment. Flood risk assessment in the middle Chao Phraya River Basin (CPRB) was simultaneously analyzed and mapped as the product of flood hazard, and social vulnerability maps generated by fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and fuzzy logic. One of the purposes of flood risk mapping is to promote proper and prompt evacuation actions for residents. The emergency flood evacuation model was tested to explore the available time of evacuation, to reduce the risk or even the loss of life. The simulation results showed that significant time was available for evacuation in the middle CPRB. This was calculated based on a physical status of evacuees, safe evacuation condition, shortest evacuation path, flood shelter, and road capacity.

scholarly journals Flood risk assessment using multi-criteria analysis: a case study from Kopili River Basin, Assam, India

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivaprasad Sharma S V ◽  
Parth Sarathi Roy ◽  
Chakravarthi V ◽  
Srinivasa Rao G
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Assessment ◽  
Multi Criteria Analysis

Flood Risk Assessment in Asian Flood Prone Area with Limited Local Data – Case Study in Pampanga River Basin, Philippines –

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1150-1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miho Ohara ◽  
◽  
Naoko Nagumo ◽  
Badri Bhakta Shrestha ◽  
Hisaya Sawano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Flood Risk Assessment ◽  
Damage Cost ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Prone Area ◽  
Flood Prone Area

Disaster risk assessment is vital to determining needs for disaster countermeasures and promoting their implementation. However, it is difficult to conduct evidence-based risk assessment in flood-prone areas of Asia due to area-specific characteristics such as limited local data on natural and societal conditions and local lifestyles of persons who have adapted to frequent floods. This paper proposes basic flood risk assessment considering these characteristics and explores a case study conducted in a flood-prone area of the Pampanga River basin in the Republic of the Philippines to verify our method. We surveyed local household members as part of the study to understand local situations, finding that past flood damage cost little thanks to building structures adapted to frequent flooding and to local ways of protecting property during floods. We also found that the use of depth-damage curves developed for urban areas may overestimate anticipated damage expected in future floods when these curves are applied to flood-prone rural areas. For this reason, we propose a method of flood risk assessment for evaluating the societal impact on residents’ lives using observed thresholds of inundation depth by flood simulation, rather than using a method that estimates damage cost. Application of our proposal to the case study area confirmed its applicability and effectiveness in evidence-based planning for reducing flood risk.

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