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Community Research
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Overview of EC environmental
research activities in the field of
floods
International EcoFlood Workshop
23 January 2004, Delft, Netherlands
Panagiotis Balabanis
DG Research
[email protected]
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Outline
 Flood related EU policies and strategies
 Past and ongoing related RTD activities
 Outlook into FP6
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Motivation for flood research and
protection within the EU policy
• Flooding represents a significant risk on a
European scale
• EU treaties recognise the need of protecting and
improving the environment and the quality of
life and promoting research and technological
development
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Flood related EU policies and
strategies
• Environment and Civil Protection
• Regional Development and Cohesion Funds
• Common Agricultural Policy
• Research
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Flood related EU policies and
strategies (cont.)
• EU Water Framework Directive
•Calls
for integrated river basin management including
flood protection and prevention
•Best
practices document on flood prevention, protection
and mitigation
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WFD
Best Practices Document - Conclusions
 For each river basin, a flood management plan should be
developed. In setting up such a plan, consideration should
be given to the aspect of solidarity within the river basin
 The plan should be based an a integrated approach
covering all relevant aspects of water management,
physical planning, land use, agriculture, transport and
urban development, nature conservation, at all levels
(national, regional and local).
 In the development of a flood management plan, decision
makers at all levels (local, regional, national and
international) as well as stakeholders and civil society
should be involved.
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Best Practices Document - Conclusions
Where applicable, the best practices described in
this document should be taken into account, in
particular on :
Integrated river
basin approach
Public awareness, public participation and insurance
Research, education and exchange of knowledge
Retention of water and non-structural measures
Land use, zoning and risk assessment
Structural measures and their impact
Flood emergency
Prevention of pollution
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Flood related EU policies and
strategies (cont.)
• EU Solidarity Fund
•Provides
immediate financial assistance to help people,
regions and countries affected by floods and other natural
disasters
•Calls
for preventive measures to avoid a recurrence of
similar disaster
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Flood related EU policies and
strategies (cont.)
• Integrated EU Strategy on prevention,
preparedness and response to natural, manmade and other risks (EC Communication
under preparation)
•Highlights
the need for developing a common approach,
improving information and communication, and
promoting coordination
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Three decades of EU flood related
research
 Flooding was a major component of successive EU
environmental research programmes
 Earlier programmes were focussed on understanding the
causes of natural disasters and the development of
protection methods
 Recent programmes (FP4,FP5 and FP6) give more and more
emphasis on integrated approaches for flood management
within the context of sustainability
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EC supported flood research projects
FP2 - 6 projects
FP3 - 12 projects
FP4 - 22 projects
FP5 - 18 projects
Other (IC) - 4 projects
EC Funding over €58 Million
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Flood research in the context of FP5
Key Action “Sustainable Management and Quality
of Water”
emphasis
on flood forecasting, early warning systems and
droughts
Key Action “Global Change, Climate and
Biodiversity”
emphasis
on major natural and technological hazards
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Ongoing FP5 flood research projects
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ACTIF: Achieving Technology Innovation in Flood
Forecasting
Consortium partners from UK, NO, IT, NL, DK
http://www.hrwallingford.co.uk/projects/ACTIF
EFFS: A European Flood Forecasting System
Consortium partners from NL, DK, DE, IT, UK,
SE, SI, RO, BG, SK, LT, HU, PL
http://effs.wldelft.nl
FLOODMAN: Near real-time flood forecasting,
warning and management system based on satellite
radar images, hydrological and hydraulic models
and in-situ data.
Consortium partners from NO, FI, IT, NL, DE
http://www.itek.norut.no/projects/floodman/Index.
htm
FLOODRELIEF: REaL-tImE Flood Decision
Support System Integrating Hydrological, Meteorological and Remote Sensing Technologies
Consortium partners from DK, UK, DE, PL
http://projects.dhi.dk/floodrelief
MUSIC: Multi-sensor precipitation measurements
integration, calibration and flood forecasting
Consortium partners from IT, UK, DE, DK, PL
http://www.geomin.unibo.it/orgv/hydro/music
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CARPE DIEM: Critical assessment of Available
Radar Precipitation Estimation techniques and
Development of Innovative approaches for
Environmental Management
Consortium partners from ES, IT, DE, SE, FI, UK,
IE
http://carpediem.am.ub.es/home
EURAINSAT: European satellite rainfall analysis
and monitoring at the geostationary scale
Consortium partners from IT, IL, DE, UK
http://www.isac.cnr.it/~eurainsat/
MANTISSA: Microwave Attenuation as a New Tool
for Improving Stormwater Supervision Administration
Consortium partners from UK, DE, IT, DK
http://prswww.essex.ac.uk/mantissa
VOLTAIRE: Validation of multisensors
precipitation fields and numerical modelling in
Mediterranean test sites
Consortium partners from DE, IT, ES, CH, CY, SI,
US
http://www.voltaireproject.org
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Ongoing FP5 flood research projects (cont.)
 ADC-RBM: Advanced Study Course in River
Basin Modelling for Flood Risk Mitigation
Study course organised by UK
http://www.bham.ac.uk/CivEng/rbm/index.
htm
 ECOFLOOD: Towards Natural Flood
Reduction Strategies
Consortium partners from NL, PL, DK, UK
http://levis.sggw.waw.pl/ecoflood
 MITCH: Mitigation of Climate Induced
Hazards
Consortium partners from UK, DE, ES, IT,
NL, DK, IL
http://www.mitch-ec.net
 PHEFRA: Palaeoflood and Historical
Evidence in Flood Risk Assessment
Workshop organised by ES
http://www.ccma.csic.es/dpts/suelos/hidro/p
hefra
 IMPACT: Investigation of Extreme Flood
Processes and Uncertainty
Consortium partners from UK, DE, BE, FR,
IT, ES, NO, PT, CZ, HU
http://www.samui.co.uk/impact-project/
 SPHERE: Systematic, Palaeoflood and
Historical data for the improvement of flood
Risk Estimation
Consortium partners from ES, IL, FR, DE,
CA
http://www.ccma.csic.es/dpts/suelos/hidro/sp
here/index.html
 SWURVE: Sustainable Water, Uncertainty,
Risk and Vulnerability in Europe
Consortium partners from UK, NL, CH, PT
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/swurve
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Advances in past and ongoing RTD
activities
 Advances in radar precipitation and hydrology,
exploitation and integration of data from various
sources, more credible flood forecasts
 Thorough assessments of the various factors
influencing increased flood risk
 European contributions to global initiatives for
disaster management (e.g.. GDIN, EU-MEDIN)
 Highlighted the need of an integrated management
approach for flood management at the
catchment/river basin with strong public
participation
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RIBAMOD – Concerted action (1997)
Principles of holistic flood defence
 Pre-flood preparedness
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risk mapping and reduction
spatial planning
flood defence infrastructure
contingency planning
 Operational flood management
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warning and emergency response
 Post-flood recovery
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relief, review, regeneration
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From rainfall to flood prediction
Real-time
rainfall and flow
Meteorological
forecasts
Radar
Weather station
Technology for flood management
forecasted
observed
Flood maps
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Water Key Action
Key issues in
Integrated River Basin Research
Improve linkages among various components
(rivers, wetlands, groundwaters, atmosphere, etc.)
Integration across disciplines (especially social and
economic science)
Improve simulation models and decision supports
tools that are useful to and can operate by managers
who are not scientific experts
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Key Action Water -The CATCHMOD Cluster
Integrating
physicochemical,
ecological
and
socioeconomic aspects
Stakeholder involvement
and better understanding
of the planning processes
HARMONICA
Concerted Action
Providing guidelines and
benchmarking criteria
for good modelling
practices
Developing universally
accepted
Open Modelling
Interface
Establishing well
documented data sets
in experimental river basins
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The Harmoni-CA concerted action
 Establishment of a communication forum /
Harmoni-CA Management
 Toolbox
 Guidance documents for river basin modelling
 Joint use of monitoring and modelling
 Integrated assessment and science-policy
interface
 Co-ordination of ongoing/future RTD-activities
For further information and involvement:
www.Harmoni-CA.info
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General Methodological Framework for
Integrated River Basin Management
Harmoni-CA WP3
PIK Potsdam
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HarmoniCOP
Harmonising Collaborative Planning
Coordinator: Prof. Claudia Pahl-Wostl, DE
Consortium partners from BE, CH, FR, HU, IT, NL, SP, UK
 Prepare a “Handbook on PP methodologies“
 Provide insight into social learning in a multi-phase
multi-level context
 Increase our understanding of the role of information
and information tools
 Compare and assess national PP experiences and
their background
 Involve governments and stakeholder groups
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Flood research in FP6
Mainly supported under Priority 6 “Sustainable
Development, Global Change and Ecosystems”
Water
cycle, Natural Disasters topics
Additional research activities could be funded
under
Priority 2
“Information Society Technologies” (e.g.
integrated information systems for risk management)
Priority 4 “Aeronautics and Space” (e.g.GMES)
Activities for structuring and strengthening the foundation of
ERA (e.g. ERA-NET, support to policies)
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Global Change and Ecosystems
Overview
I.
Impact and mechanisms of greenhouse gas emissions and
atmospheric pollutants on climate, ozone depletion and carbon
sinks
II. Water cycle, including soil-related aspects
III. Biodiversity and ecosystems
IV. Mechanisms of desertification and natural disasters
V. Strategies for sustainable land management, including coastal
zones, agricultural land and forests
VI. Operational forecasting and modelling including global climatic
change observation systems
VII. Complementary research
VIII. Cross-cutting issue: Sustainable Development concepts and tools
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Perspectives in FP6 (2002 - 2006)
 Emphasis on global change and variability, human
dimension, adaptation and mitigation
 Ecological impacts, soil functioning and water quality
 Integrated sensitivity and uncertainty analysis in
modelling, scale issues and spatiotemporal variability
 Optimisation of catchment functioning across various
economic sectors
 Managing risks in the light of increasing uncertainties
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Global Change and ecosystems
Calls for proposals timetable
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1st call publication date: 17 December 2002
1st call closure date: 8 April 2003
2nd call publication date: June 2003
2nd call closure date: October 2003
3rd call: expected to be launched mid-2004
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FLOODsite - Integrating European
research on flood risk management
 A 10 Million Euro Integrated
Project, selected for funding
following the 1st call
 Duration of 5 years
 36 partners from BE, CZ, DE,
ES, FR, GR, HU, IT, NL, PL,
PT, SE, UK
 Coordinator: Dr.P.Samuels,
HR Wallingford
 Understanding and prediction
of extreme flood events;
 Integrated strategies and tools
to assess and mitigate flood
hazard, vulnerability and risk
in river basins, coastal zones
and estuaries;
 Innovative design of
sustainable and cost effective
flood defences and risk
mitigation measures;
 Exchange and dissemination of
information to user
communities.
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Draft workprogramme for the
3rd call
II.1.1 The Global Water Cycle
II.1.1.1 Assessing
the vulnerability of global water
resources to environmental change.
II.1.2. Climate variability, floods and
droughts
II.1.2.1 Advances
in flood and drought forecasting
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Conclusions
 Past and ongoing research activities provide a huge
patrimony of knowledge and expertise to be properly
exploited for policy and regulation purposes, as well as
important insights for operational flood management
 Dissemination of research results to end users and the
establishment of closer links between researchers and
operational agencies is of paramount importance
 FP6 provide opportunities for a more concerted EU research
action on floods to integrate various fragmented activities,
making use of recent technological advances (radar, satellite,
modeling etc.) and improving the opportunities of floodplain
management to manage the variability of extreme events
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