The complexity of integrated flood management: decision support systems

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

Authors

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrontiers in flood research : Le Point De La Recherche Sur Les Crues
EditorsIoulia Tchiguirinskaia, Khin Ni Ni Thein, Pierre Hubert
Number of pages10
PublisherIAHS Press
Publication date2006
Pages187-196
ISBN (print)978-1901502633, 1901502635
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event10th Kovacs Colloquium - 2010: Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems - Paris
Duration: 02.07.201003.07.2010
Conference number: 10
http://portal.unesco.org/science/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8808&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

    Research areas

  • Environmental planning
  • Catchment scale, Decision support systems, Environmental management, Extreme floods, Integrated approach

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. A latent state-trait analysis of current achievement motivation across different tasks of cognitive ability
  2. An empirically grounded ontology for analyzing IT-based interventions in business ecosystems
  3. Influence of Mg content in Al alloys on processing characteristics and dynamically recrystallized microstructure of friction surfacing deposits
  4. An interdisciplinary perspective on scaling in transitions
  5. Increased Reliability of Draw-In Prediction in a Single Stage Deep-Drawing Operation via Transfer Learning
  6. Steering of land use in the context of sustainable development
  7. Doing space in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms
  8. Collaborative modelling for active involvement of stakeholders in urban flood risk management
  9. Analysis of the relevance of models, influencing factors and the point in time of the forecast on the prediction quality in order-related delivery time determination using machine learning
  10. Obtaining Object Information from Stereo Vision System for Autonomous Vehicles
  11. The development of an eco-label for software products
  12. Using the Domestication Approach for the Analysis of Diffusion and Participation Processes of New Media
  13. Development and characterisation of a new interface for coupling capillary LC with collision-cell ICPMS and its application for phosphorylation profiling of tryptic protein digests
  14. Non-identity – So what? A political scientist’s perspective on a curious but somehow arbitrary problem
  15. Mapping industrial patterns in spatial agglomeration
  16. Improving the representation of smallholder farmers’ adaptive behaviour in agent-based models
  17. Teaching Sustainable Development in a Sensory and Artful Way — Concepts, Methods, and Examples
  18. The Weird and the Eerie
  19. Application of novel constrained friction processing method to produce fine grained biomedical Mg-Zn-Ca alloy
  20. The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics
  21. Insights into creep behavior of Mg–14Gd–1Zn–0.4Zr (wt.%) alloy containing β- and γ-type precipitates
  22. Creative Network Communities in the Translocal Space of Digital Networks
  23. On walks in molecular graphs.
  24. Linking concepts of change and ecosystem services research: A systematic review
  25. Concurrently Observed Actions Are Represented Not as Compound Actions but as Independent Actions
  26. Microstructure and mechanical properties of as-cast Mg-Sn-Ca alloys and effect of alloying elements
  27. Utilization of protein-rich residues in biotechnological processes
  28. Health and the intention to retire: exploring the moderating effects of human resources practices