scholarly journals TOWARDS AN ABSORPTION STRATEGY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF FLOOD RISK: STUDY OF THE STRATEGY OF RESISTANCE AND THE ARTIFICIALIZATION OF SOILS IN THE FRANCO–BELGIAN CROSS-BORDER TERRITORY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMELINE COSZACH ◽  
VINCENT BECUE ◽  
JÉRÉMY CENCI ◽  
ISABELLE DE SMET ◽  
SMAIL KHAINAAR ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flood Risk ◽  
Cross Border

scholarly journals Managing Flood Hazard in a Complex Cross-Border Region Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical Data: A Case Study from Prut River Basin (NE Romania)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 4934
Author(s):  
Cătălin I. Cîmpianu ◽  
Alin Mihu-Pintilie ◽  
Cristian C. Stoleriu ◽  
Andrei Urzică ◽  
Elena Huţanu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Hazard Maps ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Complex Cross ◽  
Flood Hazard Maps ◽  
Prut River ◽  
Sentinel 2

In this study, an alternative solution for flood risk management in complex cross-border regions is presented. In these cases, due to different flood risk management legislative approaches, there is a lack of joint cooperation between the involved countries. As a main consequence, LiDAR-derived digital elevation models and accurate flood hazard maps obtained by means of hydrological and hydraulic modeling are missing or are incomplete. This is also the case for the Prut River, which acts as a natural boundary between European Union (EU) member Romania and non-EU countries Ukraine and Republic of Moldova. Here, flood hazard maps were developed under the European Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) only for the Romanian territory and only for the 1% exceeding probability (respectively floods that can occur once every 100 years). For this reason, in order to improve the flood hazard management in the area and consider all cross-border territories, a fully remote sensing approach was considered. Using open-source SAR Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data characterized by an improved temporal resolution, we managed to capture the maximum spatial extent of a flood event that took place in the aforementioned river sector (middle Prut River course) during the 24 and 27 June 2020. Moreover, by means of flood frequency analysis, the development of a transboundary flood hazard map with an assigned probability, specific to the maximum flow rate recorded during the event, was realized.

Review of flood and ice forecasting systems and methodologies in the Danube River countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojca Sraj ◽  
Mira Kobold ◽  
Sašo Petan ◽  
Nejc Bezak ◽  
Mitja Brilly
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Danube River ◽  
National Database ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
The Danube River ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Danube River Basin

<p>The Danube River basin is the most international river basin in the world with many large tributaries having catchments in 19 countries. Since frequency of floods in the Danube River basin increased in the last decades, the need for a more effective and harmonized regional and cross-border cooperation in the field of flood and ice forecasting arises. The need for enhanced cooperation in flood protection was officially recognized in various international and interregional policy documents, therefore DAREFFORT project was initiated under the Interreg Danube Transnational Programme to identify the state of the art of flood and ice forecasting techniques and raise awareness among the countries about the basic problems of flood and ice forecasting (e.g. the lack of a unified data exchange at the catchment level) and to help implement the Danube Flood Risk Management Plan in line with the Flood Risk Directive.</p><p>The main aim of the DAREFFORT project is to give a comprehensive overview about the complex national flood and ice forecasting systems and to eliminate the shortcomings of the existing forecasting practices as well as to improve the exchange and availability of hydrological and meteorological data between the participating countries with establishment of the Danube Hydrological Information System (Danube HIS). In order to achieve this goal, national reports on the status quo of the Danube regional flood and ice forecasting system and methodologies as well as a detailed questionnaire were prepared by all project partner countries. Information about the countries’ hydrological and meteorological data availability, recording methods and coverage with the monitoring networks, codings and national database system, data flow, forecasting time intervals and accuracy, response times, cross-border issues and data dissemination etc. was covered in the questionnaire. The evaluation of 12 national reports and results of questionnaires showed a comprehensive overview of flood and ice forecasting systems and methodologies in the Danube River basin.</p><p>The gathered information about national flood and ice forecasting practices and the acquired knowledge through the project implementation process will result into an international policy proposal for a harmonized data exchange protocol, including the sufficient quantity, quality, and format of the data exchange.</p>

scholarly journals Flood risk management, an approach to managing cross-border hazards

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (S2) ◽  
pp. 217-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Bracken ◽  
E. A. Oughton ◽  
A. Donaldson ◽  
B. Cook ◽  
J. Forrester ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Cross Border

scholarly journals Probabilistic Quantification in the Analysis of Flood Risks in Cross-Border Areas of Poland and Germany

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 6020
Author(s):  
Łukasz Kuźmiński ◽  
Michał Nadolny ◽  
Henryk Wojtaszek
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Water Level ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Extreme Values ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Risk Increase ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
Low Exposure ◽  
Economic Understanding

Measuring the probability of flood risk is a key issue in the economics of natural disasters. This discipline studies actual and potential effects of natural disasters on the functioning of economic systems. In traditional economic understanding, it is assumed that both the decision making processes and market processes operate within a certain level of access to information. It is also assumed that the effects of certain phenomena are predictable. However, a natural disaster is difficult to predict. It is hard to predict the time of its occurrence, its impact, direct exposure to its effects and finally, its social and economic results. Exposure to a random hazard, combined with the amount of damage resulting from its potential materialization, is called risk. In this study, the authors focus on presenting a method for quantification of the random element of flood risk. We are using measurement data for cross-border areas between Poland and Germany who witnessed a flood of the century in the 1990s. The empirical data illustrate the usefulness and universality of probabilistic quantification methods for flood risk analysis. The analysis of water level is interesting in a much broader context than the hydrological-economic one. In Central Europe, river water level is immediately connected with two other disaster-like phenomena: drought and heavy rainfall. Also, the course of the Oder river is typical for North European Plain. Therefore, the conclusions presented by the authors are universal by nature and describe certain broader phenomena. Employment of methods of probabilistic quantification using extreme values yields very interesting results: flood risk changes dynamically. Five-year period measurements themselves indicate that there are periods of relatively low exposure of the areas to the disaster (with negligible probability 0.02) and periods of disproportionately high risk increase. The risk of exceeding alarm levels and warning levels changes rapidly, reaching as much as 30% in some locations.

SATISFACTION LEVEL OF THE FIRST THAI-LAOS FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSPORTATION CHECKPOINT SYSTEM

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sethapong Jarusombathi ◽  
◽  
Pimnapa Pongsayaporn ◽  
Veeris Amalapala
Keyword(s):  
Satisfaction Level ◽  
Cross Border

Cross-border Migration and Gender Boundaries in Central Eastern Europe – Female Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-509
Author(s):  
Ágnes Erőss ◽  
Monika Mária Váradi ◽  
Doris Wastl-Walter
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Livelihood Strategy ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Boundaries

In post-Socialist countries, cross-border labour migration has become a common individual and family livelihood strategy. The paper is based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with two ethnic Hungarian women whose lives have been significantly reshaped by cross-border migration. Focusing on the interplay of gender and cross-border migration, our aim is to reveal how gender roles and boundaries are reinforced and repositioned by labour migration in the post-socialist context where both the socialist dual-earner model and conventional ideas of family and gender roles simultaneously prevail. We found that cross-border migration challenged these women to pursue diverse strategies to balance their roles of breadwinner, wife, and mother responsible for reproductive work. Nevertheless, the boundaries between female and male work or status were neither discursively nor in practice transgressed. Thus, the effect of cross-border migration on altering gender boundaries in post-socialist peripheries is limited.

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