Comparative Study of Flood Risk Management and Land Use in the Deltas of Rhine River, Yellow River and Mississippi River

The Rhine River in the Netherlands, the Yellow River in China and the Mississippi River in the U.S. are three great rivers in the world. Each of them is performing a significant role in the country. The delta area for each river, in particular, is served as the centre in importance and commonly the most developed region in the whole river basin....

Kosteneffectiviteit van maatregelen en pakketten: Kosten-batenanalyse voor Ruimte voor de Rivier, deel 2

This report is part 2 of the economic analysis of the project ‘Space for the Rivers’, which aims at improving the safety against flooding along the river Rhine. It is a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) of proposed measures and packages. A method has been developed for evaluating measures and packages with more than one effect at the same time....

Veiligheid tegen overstromen: Kosten-batenanalyse voor Ruimte voor de Rivier, deel 1

This report is part 1 of a Cost-Benefit Analysis of the project ‘Space for the Rivers’, which aims at improving the safety against flooding along the river Rhine. A new method has been developed to find the optimal safety level for dike rings against flooding and the accompanying investment strategy. This method has been applied to 22 dike rings...

Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management in the Rhine and Meuse River Basins

Flood risk (defined as a result of flood probability and potential damage) along Rhine and Meuse rivers is expected to increase in two ways: A. Climate change will cause a significant increase in the probability of extreme floods (according to a majority of climate change scenarios). B. The potential damage of floods (the level of investments in...

Probabilistic design and risk analysis for the Duong river dike in the Red River delta in Vietnam

Traditionally, the design of sea and river dikes in Vietnam is primarily based on a water level with a particular frequency of being exceeded. The frequencies of exceedence of design levels and governing discharge are widely regarded as constituting a standard for the safety of the region protected by the dikes and are interpreted in terms of...

Interactive flood management and landscape planning in river systems

Development of a decision support system and analysis of retention options along the lower Rhine river.

Extension of the Flood Forecasting Model FloRIJN

After the floods of 1993 and 1995 in the Rhine basin, the ICPR Action Plan on Flood Defence (ICPR, 1998) was drawn up, after which the environmental affairs ministers of the Rhine riparian states agreed on several meas-ures on the subject of improvement of flood forecasting and warning systems in the Rhine basin. One of the targets of this...

An Inventory of Measures and Solutions Coping with Floods around the World

From the very earliest times, man has sought to reduce the damaging impact of floods. However, despite a growing understanding of flood hydrology, plus the application of an increasingly complex technology and the injection of progressively larger capital sums, flood losses continue to rise. The concentration was principally placed on the...

Principles and guidelines for the environmental protection of drainage basins prone to flash floods: Experimental intervention in a pilot drainage basin - Experimental intervention in the basin of Civiglia Torrent

This project aims at the identification of a methodological approach for the analysis of medium-small basins prone to flash floods, this document is the conclusive study of the main territorial aspects of Civiglia basin, which represents a case study in order to put in practice the theoretic guidelines emerged in the development of project Premo...

Principles and guidelines for the environmental protection of drainage basins prone to flash floods: Experimental intervention in a pilot drainage basin

The second Chapter refers to the institutional and legislative framework, that is, the laws in force at the different levels, from local to global, in each partner’s country and concludes with considerations on optimal levels of coordination. Chapter III begins with the methodology recommended for the study of small-medium basins, based upon the...