Advancing stakeholder participation beyond consultation offers a range of benefits for local flood risk management, particularly as responsibilities are increasingly devolved to local levels. This paper details the design and implementation of a participatory approach to identify intervention options for managing local flood risk. Within this approach, Bayesian networks were used to generate a ...

In today’s society, safety from flooding is no longer the sole responsibility of the central government. In recent decades, we have witnessed a governance turn in flood risk management, in which private parties as well as regional and local governmental bodies have a role to play. As a result, the question of how to distribute the responsibilities among the actors involved has become urgent. We...

Flood management is an important approach to reduce damage caused by floods. In this context, technological architectures which work in real-time are needed. However, Brazil has faced many structural difficulties in obtaining updated information on the current state of its rivers. To address this problem, this paper outlines a geosensor dashboard called AGORA-GeoDash, which processes data strea...

The recent flood disasters showed that available warning systems do not fully fulfill their requirements and potentials. This paper examines these regarding web-based and mobile GIS based flood information and warning systems. We present first prototypes that are being developed at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz for a pilot area at the Rhine and give an outlook on the state of art and...

Information is provided on the approach and experience in flood management in the Piemonte Region. Actual practices comprise mainly: (i) the structural mitigation of floods; and (ii) non-structural safety measures subdivided into land use planning and emergency plan activation through hydrometeorological forecasting and the development of an Alert System for flood forecasting and warning. Of pa...

check dams, are small dams in the watershed. these dams are constructed in susceptible areas to erosion due to reduce of flow velocity and erosion, control of sediment and flood in upstream of reservoir dams. these structures are made using wood, stone and cement, and gabion. these structures change the hydrological response of the watershed by reducing flow velocity, the channel slope and stor...

It has been stressed within social sciences that risk management has focused too much on technical solutions and in order to decrease the risks also social factors have to be taken into account, namely the way people perceive risk. Risk perception is an important research field working on these issues. The aim of the study was in the light of the diverging views between the two paradigms to und...

Mutual exclusion is directly related to a host of selections at both system and component levels; is responsible for diversification; and gives rise to uniqueness. Mutual exclusion is also evident in modelling and flood forecasting, be it in models, software tools, data, modelling practices, flood forecasting and warning issues, and management systems. The emerging picture is that (i) diversity...