ESPACE - European Spatial Planning: Adapting to Climatic Events

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Background

Decision Testing Framework

Decision Testing Tools

Piloting

 

Workbook

 
 

Pilot Studies

This section presents the information related to the work carried out to date by the three project partners, for international comparison of the three approaches in assessing climate change impact. The main objective is to understand the practice and understanding of the three main ESPACE partners, the Environment Agency (UK), WSRL (Netherlands) and LFW (Germany) to identify similarities, limitations or excellence in approach. Each approach examines climate change impact on flooding of environments that differ in scale, topography, land use and in the origin of flooding.

1 - UK Environment Agency - TE 2100 Project

Development of a tool with results from sub-models which is both educational (FloodRanger) and for use in decision-making (FloodRanger Pro), incorporating multiple climate change scenarios and allowing a gaming environment to understand impact of different, high-level mitigation actions on flood damages. Examines flooding due to predicted peak sea level events in Thames Estuary.

2 - Waterschap Rivierenland (Netherlands)

Development of a tool for practical, operational use at administrative scale to allow stakeholders (flood risk inhabitants) to understand impact of various, detailed mitigation actions. Examines surface water flooding only (not river over-topping).

3 - Bavarian Water Management Agency (Germany)

Development of a suite of models to enable professional practitioners (water planners and engineers) to examine the impact of climate change predictions on riverine flooding across Bavaria, examining scales down to individual towns. Examines various climate change quantities, including precipitation, in a time-series model to assess changes in peak river flows.

Piloting the Decision Testing Framework

An assessment of how the UK, the Dutch and German approach fit with the Decision Making Framework is made by comparing the approaches to the first five stages of the framework.
The Environment Agency approach has been compared against the Decision Making Framework in Phase 2 of this project, in the form of a broad-scale pilot. And a simple assessment of how the WSRL and LFW approach map to the 5 stages has been made and presented in this section.

 

 

• Pilot 1

 

• Pilot 2

 

• Pilot 3

 

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