COURSE DESCRIPTION
URBAN FLOODING - ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT Preparing for flooding and the impact of climate change on your city
This two-day course focuses on climate change and flooding with an emphasis on tools for analysing impacts of climate changes in urban areas. Thus, you learn about the practical application of flood management tools and their constraints, as well as how to develop flood risk assessments and maps. The course includes presentations, discussions and hands-on exercises in using the different software tools to support risk assessment. City water planners and decision makers have to adapt to a changing climate. Climate change is expected to change the distribution of precipitation in both time and space. This will change the flood risk profile of all cities. Accordingly, cities and water utilities need to decide which adaptation measures to prioritise and implement. Climate change assessment often requires integrated modelling of flooding. This is a combined result of local heavy rainfall, overtopping river or coastal flooding. Flood modelling and risk assessment – based on software tools ranging from simple GIS analysis to coupled 1D-2D hydrodynamic modelling – are important for decision makers in order to minimise the costs related to extreme flooding. COURSE TOPICS
Global and regional climate change models and predictions of climate changes
Combined flood risks from sewers, rivers, lakes and the sea
Overview of flood modelling techniques
FLOOD TOOL BOX: presentation and practical use of various methods and tools to assess the current and future flood risk of urban areas
Different types of data and their use
Mapping flood risks, values and economic costs related to flooding
Methods to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed adaptation measures
Cases of tackling climate change challenges through active control rather than through traditional methods of upgrading
Examples of international urban flooding and climate change adaptation
Hands-on exercises (related to FLOOD TOOL BOX, mapping flood risks, cost-benefit analyses)
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TARGET GROUP AND PREREQUISITES Professionals who work with adaptation to climate change, risk assessment and software tools for flood management in water supply and sewage companies, municipalities, regional organisations, river basin organisations. Priority is given to participants with computer modelling experience. It is preferable but no condition that participants have knowledge of MIKE FLOOD, ArcGIS, MIKE URBAN (or MOUSE) prior to the course.
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