Flood Risk Management (WSE/HI/10A/e)

Basic knowledge of hydrology and hydraulics

On completion of this module the participants are able to:

• understand and explain the main principles of flood risk management;
• understand the Hydroinformatics tools available for flood risk management;
• conceptualise the main principles of EU flood directive and have knowledge about European experience in flood risk management;
• understand and explain the main principles of flood forecasting and warning and uncertainty issues associated with flood forecasts;
• familiarise with the different flood forecasting models;
• utilise their hands-on experience in the step-by-step modelling procedure to build flood inundation models.

Flood risk management, B. Bhattacharya, P. Samuels (HR Wallingford), F. Klijn (Deltares), M. Werner
Introduction to flood risk management. Quantifying flood risk – probabilistic and statistical approaches. Risk-based decision making. Case studies. Introduction to risk analysis of flood defence structures. Case studies. Flood vulnerability and resilience.
European experience in managing floods. EU framework directive on floods. Other national (eg UK) flood directives.
Flood disaster management (Pre-, post- and during flood). Flood emergency response and flood preparedness. Flood fighting, recovery and insurance. Evacuation management.
Flood forecasting and warning. Objectives. Lead time considerations. Data requirements. Flood forecasting models. Issuance of flood warning and response.  
Uncertainty issues in flood forecasting. Modelling uncertainty and its benefits.
Social issues.
Advanced river flood modelling, I. Popescu, B. Bhattacharya, G. Di Baldassarre and S. J. van Andel
2D, 1D2D river flood modelling. Dam break modelling. Flood modelling, in 2D, in support of flood mitigation strategies (including flood risk maps. Structural and non-structural approaches in flood mitigation. Engineering solutions - flood routing and flood alleviation: channel & reservoir routing, flood banks, channel improvements, diversion schemes, flood storage on-stream and off-stream ; and non-structural issues - approaches to the reduction of flood impacts, flood risk maps.

Formal lectures; classroom exercises; home assignments; exercises and workshops in computer lab;

• Lecture notes on Hydroinformatics for flood  management, EU framework directive, flood risk management
• Lecture notes on Flood modelling
• Presentation slides
• Modelling packages with user manuals

• I.I. Popescu, PhD, MSc
• B. Bhattacharya, PhD, MSc
• Prof. P. Samuels