Catchment flood management plans and the modelling and decision support framework

Evans, E. P.; Ramsbottom, David; Wicks, Jon; Packman, J. C.; Penning‐Rowsell, Edmund C.

doi:10.1680/cien.2002.150.5.43

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“…The choice of flood frequency estimation method for a practitioner is likely to be influenced by familiarity of approach and its potential features, and by the amount and type of relevant data for a particular site, as well as by overall numerical performance across the country. The FEH methods are now tried and tested to a degree (see, e.g., Institution of Civil Engineers, 2001; Evans et al , 2002). The approach is mature and flexible, with guidance in the statistical method on how to deal with, e.g., high groundwater components, and how to incorporate information from historic flood observations.…”

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Comparative analysis of statistical and catchment modelling approaches to river flood frequency estimation

Calver

Stewart

Goodsell

2009

J Flood Risk Management

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The paper compares results from two approaches to the quantification of river flood frequencies applicable nationally in Britain. One approach uses both the flood peak and event‐based methods of the Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) of current water industry practice and the other approach is a recently developed set of continuous simulation techniques using parameter‐sparse modelling of catchment flood runoff response. The methods were applied to over a hundred sites in Britain, treated as if without flow data, although such observations existed and were used only for testing purposes. Errors of ≤20% in peak flows at ungauged sites are currently very good in this hydrologically challenging context; errors of up to around 35% may have to be contended with in flood management practice. The results from the FEH statistical method reinforce its established role in peak‐flow estimation. On the basis of the aspects that have been tested here, the emerging continuous simulation approaches show considerable potential to offer good performance for peaks and flow time series. The errors associated with the FEH unit hydrograph approach reflect the additional challenge it incorporates of ungauged rainfall estimation in addition to ungauged discharge.

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Comparative analysis of statistical and catchment modelling approaches to river flood frequency estimation

Calver

Stewart

Goodsell

2009

J Flood Risk Management

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“…[23,24] [21,36]. An illustration of the integration of the three aspects of the decision-making process is provided in Figure 2.…”

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Toward generalized decision support systems for flood risk management

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Firoozfar

2016

E3S Web Conf.

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Abstract. Despite the emergence of a large number of specialized decision-support systems (DSS) in the last decades, currently there are fewer efforts made for integrating the flood risk management relevant sciences with information and communication technologies into generalized DSS. Such systems are expected to formulate decision options for prevention, mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery from flood impacts with consideration of climate change, socio-HFRQRPLF HYROXWLRQ DQG VWDNHKROGHUV ¶ LQSXW &XUUHQWO\ WKHUH LV QR XQLILHG YLVLRQ RQ WKH DUFKLWHFWXUH components, and the needed computer and communications technologies for attaining generic DSS for flood mitigation and resilience. Moreover, there is no guidance of what components should be developed first and in what order and how to efficiently include human-computer interfaces for efficient stakeholder engagement and consensus. This paper calls for the formation of a strategic global partnership for framing and subsequently assisting in the development of a generalized flood DSS (FLOODSS) that can overcome the current flood DSS limitations. The call is preceded by a review of the flood decision-support terminology and context. Subsequently, an initial vision on the FLOODSS is outlined and the steps for transitioning such a system from vision to practice are proposed.

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“…This is a shift in the approach to flood risk management, from modifying the natural environment to meet human uses of the flood plain to modifying the way we use the environment across the catchment as a whole (Hutter, 2007). A consequence is that interventions to reduce exposure at any one point must take place upstream of that point, and hence flood risk management becomes increasingly a catchment-scale problem and a land and water governance problem (Evans, Ramsbottom, Wicks, Packman, & Penning-Rowsell, 2002;Green, 2014;Hartmann & Driessen, 2013). One solution is the creation of inter-local partnership arrangements; partnership has been seen as a way to both increase the value of available budgets and to increase efficiency in using current public funds and resources.…”

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Developing partnership approaches for flood risk management: implementation of inter-local co-operations in Austria

Thaler

2014

Water International

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This article relates how catchment-wide partnership agreements have been used in approaching flood risk management in Austria. Upstream-downstream co-operations are clearly influenced by a number of factors, where the combination of these interdependences can create specific conditions that alter the opportunity for effective governance arrangements in a local scheme approach. We present the motivations and drivers of the creation of inter-local co-operations in flood risk management, focusing especially on the main barriers and challenges. Although a partnership approach may be seen as an 'optimal' solution for flood risk management, in practice there are many limitations and barriers to establishing these collaborations.

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Catchment flood management plans and the modelling and decision support framework

Cited by 24 publications

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Comparative analysis of statistical and catchment modelling approaches to river flood frequency estimation

Comparative analysis of statistical and catchment modelling approaches to river flood frequency estimation

Toward generalized decision support systems for flood risk management

Developing partnership approaches for flood risk management: implementation of inter-local co-operations in Austria

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