The Development of the Basin Wide System of Flood Warning

An effective and reliable system of flood forecasting and warning dissemination should be set up to inform, at respective level, authorities responsible for flood defence and citizens in threatened areas. Classical and new media such as sirens, formal warnings, state and private broadcasting services, satellite-based communication system, alarm...

Vulnerability and flooding: A re-analysis of FHRC data. Country Report for England and Wales

This study has re-analysed data from earlier UK studies rather than collecting new survey data. The results help us to further understand the impacts of flooding, residents’ preparedness, vulnerability and resilience related to flood events, the driving forces of human behaviour before, during, and after floods. The results also allow lessons to...

Progress of communication and dissemination - Implementation of the C&D Plan

This report presents the progress in the implementation of the Communication and Dissemination (C&D) Plan within FLOODsite. Section 2 reports on dissemination, with special attention to the project website and the tasks under Theme 5: Task 29 (text-based dissemination), Task 30 (web-based dissemination) and Task 31 (face-to-face, i.e. mainly...

REALTIME GUIDANCE FOR FLASH FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT

Two approaches are currently available for flash flood forecast: i)distributed or semidistributed rainfall-runoff model, able to use distributed rainfall input and to exploit information about basin morphometry ii)simple procedures based on the concept of Flash Flood Guidance, i.e. the approximate threshold basin-average rainfall depth over a...

Planning for Communication and Dissemination in FLOODsite

This document provides the generic principles of communication and dissemination from FLOODsite that can be transferred to other research projects. This document has been developed as a public version from the third edition of the FLOODsite C&D Plan (T28-05-02) without detail on the individual actions on task leaders during the project.

Recommendations for flood risk management with communities at risk

The paper draws lessons from our empirical investigations in Germany, Italy and England/Wales in a very specific perspective: It formulates recommendations for flood risk management with people at risk. Thus it tries to shed light on the views of this important – but often neglected – group of stakeholders. Our addressees are flood risk...

Awareness of and preparedness for storm-surges in a coastal community on the North Sea

Risk awareness and personal preparedness are seen to be important parameters in an integrated risk management scheme today. This study is contributing to the knowledge base about the perception of risk. Regarding the risk of storm-surges, an assessment of the perception and the status of personal preparedness of the people are addressed in an...

Risk to Life: Gard River Case study

The Gard River case study focuses on human behaviour and casualties during the September 8-9, 2002 flash floods in order to provide estimates of the potential loss of life for this type of flood and elements for a calibration of the proposed model. The study contributes to Actions 1 and 2 of Activity 1 in Task 10 in helping to identify the...

Uncertainty communication

Communication and Dissemination Plan

This Communication and Dissemination plan sets out the vision, principles and philosophy for Communication and Dissemination for the FLOODsite project identifies actions that will form part of the co-ordinated Communication and Dissemination activities for the project, recognising that these actions will be scoped and co-ordinated more fully as...

Web-based knowledge transfer: Specification for the E-Flood platform

The overall objective of Task 30 is to support the communication of the findings of the whole FLOODsite project and to promote uptake of the FLOODsite framework and methodologies by the three main target groups: public, professional and educational. The specific objective of Task 30 is to enhance uptake through the adoption of a Web-enabled...

Protocols for Data Sharing within FLOODsite

The overall objective of Task 30 is to support the communication of the findings of the whole FLOODsite project and to promote uptake of the FLOODsite framework and methodologies by the three main target groups: public, professional and educational. The specific objective of Task 30 is to enhance uptake through the adoption of a Web-enabled...

Baybook: A guide to reducing water pollution at home

In each chapter of this guide there are specific suggestions about what you can do to improve the quality of life in your home, in your neighborhood, and in the Bay. • Learn how your daily routines affect the Bay • Read the Baybook for easy-to-do suggestions about how you can help preserve and restore the Chesapeake Bay