Collaborative Research on Flood Resilience in Urban Areas The CORFU Project University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis / Polytech’Nice-Sophia 1236540 Philippe

Collaborative Research on Flood Resilience in Urban Areas

The CORFU Project

University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis / Polytech’Nice-Sophia

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Philippe [email protected]

Jelena [email protected]

Funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme www.corfu-fp7.eu

Outline of CORFU project


Introduction

Overview of WPs: WP0 WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6

Outcomes from CORFU

What?

CORFU project (www.corfu-fp7.eu) is a part of Seventh Framework Program FP7 (cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home) that supports all types of research activities carried out by different research bodies in trans-national cooperation and aims to gain or consolidate leadership in key scientific and technology areas

Why?

To make possible for European and Asian partners to learn from each other through cooperative investigation, development, implementation and dissemination of short to medium term strategies. That will enable more methodically managing consequences of urban flooding in the future


Collaborative Research of Flood resilience in Urban Areas – CORFU

Who?

CORFU is coordinated within a robust organizational framework that supports collaboration, oversees science and society issues, promotes gender equality, ensures the financial viability of the entire project and ensures good internal and external communication Members of executive board of CORFU project are:

• Slobodan Djordjevic, Exeter university, United Kingdom • Ole Mark, DHI, Denmark • Philippe Gourbesville, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France • Erik Pasche, Hamburg University, Germany



CORFU partners

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

DHI – Water & Environment, Denmark

Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

AREP Ville, France

Institute of Water Modeling, Bangladesh

Beijing University of Technology, China



CORFU partners

China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, China

Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, China

CETaqua, Spain

Hydrometeorological Innovative Solutions, Spain

Cranfield University, United Kingdom

Dura Vermeer Business Development, Netherland

Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany



Where?

With its actions, Corfu project covers Europe and Asian cities:

Barcelona in SpainBeijing in ChinaDhaka in BangladeshHamburg in GermanyMumbai in IndiaNice in FranceSongdo and Seoul in KoreaTaipei in Taiwan





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Dhaka,

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Seoul, Korea

Songdo, Korea

Taipei, Taiw

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Case Studies

Work packages presentation

Collaborative research within CORFU is structured in seven Work Packages (WPs), which are further split into a number of tasks that are strongly interconnected. The idea and the overall scientific and technical objectives of the WPs can be summarized as follows:

WP0 – Synergies – Exeter University, UKWP1 – Drivers – Hamburg University, GermanyWP2 – Flood Modeling – DHI, DenmarkWP3 – Impacts – Exeter University, UK WP4 – Flood defense strategies – University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, FranceWP5 – Dissemination – Exeter University, UKWP6 – Coordination – Exeter University, UK



WP0 – Synergies – Exeter University, UK

WP0 will consider synergies and governance

The objective will be to establish and maintain links with recently completed and ongoing major national and EU research projects related to urban flooding, with the view of enabling smooth acceptance and further enhancement of methodologies developed in these projects, aiming at a better use of resources and avoiding duplication of work


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WP1 – Drivers – Hamburg University, Germany

WP1 will look at drivers that impact on urban flooding

The objective will be to determine the interactions between economic and urban growth, societal trends and the urban structure, which will serve as the basis for the development of a DPSIR (drivers-pressures-state-impact-response) logical framework


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DPSIR (drivers-pressures-state-impact-response) logical framework


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Responses

Driving For-ces

PressuresState

Impact

DPSIR

Polices and

targets

WP2 – Flood Modeling – DHI, Denmark

WP2 objective will be to evaluate and improve methodologies and tools designed for off-line and real-time flood hazard assessment based on urban flood modeling

Tools will be developed in order to identify regular procedures for calibration of urban flood models at different scales regarding wider availability of weather radars and on-line rain gauges, increase in computer speed and possibilities for coupling of runoff-sewer-river hydrologic and hydraulic models


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WP3 – Impacts – Exeter University, UK

WP3 will improve, extend and integrate modern methods for flood impact assessment

The aim will be to develop a complete and flexible framework that will join together different methodologies for evaluation of all types of damage. Evaluation of health problems will be taken to a higher level by a combination of hydraulic modeling of floods and quantitative microbial risk assessment. WP3 will include a wide range of possible impacts and interactions of different drivers


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WP4 – Flood defense strategies – University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

WP4 will assess and improve existing flood risk management strategies related to:Mitigation – planning and prevention for the minimization of flood riskPreparedness – management during flood events including early warning systemsResponse – emergency protocols and crisis management and measures to be taken after a flood event, including evaluation of damagesRecovery – recovery measures and the procedures that allow learning from experience


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WP4 will develop new efficient medium – to long-term flood risk strategies, and provide adequate measures for improved flood management at relevant levelsThe target regions are developed and developing cities in India, Bangladesh, Korea and China primarily Strategy will be developed using following:

Developed city in developing countryDeveloped city in developed countryDeveloping city in developing countryDeveloping city in developed country

Enhance flood insurance schemes in case study areas


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The research within CORFU project will be associated with following case studies:

Barcelona in SpainBeijing in ChinaDhaka in BangladeshHamburg in GermanyMumbai in IndiaNice in FranceSongdo and Seoul in South KoreaTaipei in Taiwan

In order to set a guideline for improving resilience in urban areas the existing flood strategies from this case studies will be recommended along with new approaches in order to have a better strategy implementations


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WP5 – Dissemination – Exeter University, UK

WP5 will disseminate new approaches and support exploitation of opportunities at local, national and international levels

Aim will be to stimulate a ‘flood resilience’ culture through awareness, intensifying proposed strategies and full adoption of CORFU toolsPropagation of new approaches will be done through engaging policy makers, especially in the CORFU study areas, to share best practice in flood resilient design and planning enabling policy decision making to be positively influenced by new urban flood risk management principles

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WP6 – Coordination – Exeter University, UK

WP6 will co-ordinate the project within a managerial framework that supports collaboration, oversees science and society issues, promotes gender equality, ensures the financial viability of the entire project and ensures good internal and external communication

CORFU project management will therefore be fully compliant with FP7 guidelines and principles

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Project meetings

Telephone conferences

Progress reports

WP5 Dissemination

WP6 Project coordination

WP2Urban flood

modeling

WP1Drivers

WP3Impacts

WP4Flood Risk Management Strategies

Urban change

Environment change

Urban growth

Environment growth

Scenarios System analysis Case studies

Deliverables Guidelines Publications Models Tools Methodological framework

Feedback loop Feedback loop Feedback loop


• Generation of updated city sewer flood models, developed means in order to quantify flood impact, analysis the effect of changing social, economic and environmental effects on city flood risk, analysis of the effect of mitigation and resilience measures

• Classification and sharing best practice on mitigation and resilience measures, inculcating a flood resilience mentality in key stakeholders

• Following the good practices – exchange ideas and information on defense strategies related to the areas of flood resilience and flood risk management the need for a project like CORFU became essential



Outcomes from CORFU project

• In order to gather under same frame all necessary actions, polices, strategies and recommendations this project will engage all tools to create new strategies for flood resilience in urban areas

• Direct support to policy developments and realization with contribution of policy-makers and stakeholders in research consortium and involvement of scientists in policy discussions

• On international level, European inputs are fully applicable to carry out international and multidisciplinary research

• Very important is strong need for strengthening the efficient transfer of research knowledge to policy-makers with the perspective of reducing uncertainties of predictive scenarios for better decision-making at policy level



Outcomes from CORFU project



Thanks for your attention! Philippe GOURBESVILLE

University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis

[email protected]

Jelena BATICAUniversity of Nice – Sophia

[email protected]

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Collaborative Research on Flood Resilience in Urban Areas The CORFU Project University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis / Polytech’Nice-Sophia 1236540 Philippe