TY - CHAP

T1 - The complexity of integrated flood management

T2 - 10th Kovacs Colloquium - 2010

AU - Evers, Mariele

N1 - Conference code: 10

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - Regarding the increase of extreme flood events and flood damage during the last decades, it has become obvious that an integrated approach is crucial in flood protection. In the complex field of integrated flood management many issues, e.g. technical measures, spatial management, retrofitting, raising risk awareness as well as environmental and land use management, have to be incorporated. Water related biotopes and especially flood plains are extremely important and rich ecosystems with a huge variety of species and functionalities. So technologies for integrated flood management should have the possibilities to integrate water and environmental aspects. Availability of digital data is crucial to manage these systems with complex cause-and-effect relationships. Moreover, the interfacing of different models plays a central role. But simulation of natural systems alone is not sufficient, public participation is also essential. For transparent and knowledge-based decisions the possibilities of participation technologies such as Decision Support Systems (DSS) are important and can be very helpful. But for large-scale and complex catchment based systems, there is a series of requirements, such as for example a good database, administrative boundaries, data availability/access, standards of methodologies, communication (e.g. between water and environmental managers) exist. Development of a DSS is usually time and money-consuming. So it is crucial to identify strategies and synergies to minimize costs and optimize the benefit. This paper illustrates some aspects of an incorporated approach in water and environmental technologies and discusses possible improvements and synergies in the field such as data collection and access, cooperation between water and environmental management, and integrated planning on a catchment scale.

AB - Regarding the increase of extreme flood events and flood damage during the last decades, it has become obvious that an integrated approach is crucial in flood protection. In the complex field of integrated flood management many issues, e.g. technical measures, spatial management, retrofitting, raising risk awareness as well as environmental and land use management, have to be incorporated. Water related biotopes and especially flood plains are extremely important and rich ecosystems with a huge variety of species and functionalities. So technologies for integrated flood management should have the possibilities to integrate water and environmental aspects. Availability of digital data is crucial to manage these systems with complex cause-and-effect relationships. Moreover, the interfacing of different models plays a central role. But simulation of natural systems alone is not sufficient, public participation is also essential. For transparent and knowledge-based decisions the possibilities of participation technologies such as Decision Support Systems (DSS) are important and can be very helpful. But for large-scale and complex catchment based systems, there is a series of requirements, such as for example a good database, administrative boundaries, data availability/access, standards of methodologies, communication (e.g. between water and environmental managers) exist. Development of a DSS is usually time and money-consuming. So it is crucial to identify strategies and synergies to minimize costs and optimize the benefit. This paper illustrates some aspects of an incorporated approach in water and environmental technologies and discusses possible improvements and synergies in the field such as data collection and access, cooperation between water and environmental management, and integrated planning on a catchment scale.

KW - Environmental planning

KW - Catchment scale

KW - Decision support systems

KW - Environmental management

KW - Extreme floods

KW - Integrated approach

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33748307407&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-1901502633

SN - 1901502635

T3 - IAHS Publication

SP - 187

EP - 196

BT - Frontiers in flood research

A2 - Tchiguirinskaia, Ioulia

A2 - Thein, Khin Ni Ni

A2 - Hubert, Pierre

PB - IAHS Press

Y2 - 2 July 2010 through 3 July 2010

ER -