The international workshop on “flood impacts observation” was held in Montpellier (France) on 5-7th November 2019. It was organised by MUSE – the University of Montpellier and the members of the so-ii observatory.

This workshop was in english only (no translation to french nor in other language).

He took place in MSH Sud, located at Site de Saint-Charles, 71 rue Professeur Henri Serre, Montpellier.

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Speakers presentations

You can download the speaker’s presentations below shown during this international workshop on Flood Impacts Observation:

Opening presentation:

• Frédéric Grelot, Introductory speech

Flood and agriculture:

• Joe Morris, “Observing and measuring flood impact on agriculture”

Flood and environment:

• Emily Garner, “Environmental and Public Health Impacts Resulting from Extreme Flooding Events”

• Sara Romano-Bertrand, “Flooding events and antimicrobial resistance : is the mediterranean area a hot spot?”

• Cécile Hérivaux, “NAIAD (Nature Insurance Value : Assessment & Demonstration) project”

Flood and property market:

• Okmyung Bin, “Flood Hazards, Insurance and Risk Perceptions in the U.S. Housing Market”

• Allan Beltran, “Flood impacts, protection & near-misses: Evidence from the UK housing market”
  

Short-term dynamic of damages:

• Sally Priest, “The impacts of flooding on the wellbeing of professional responders”

• Katerina Papagiannaki, “Spatial analysis of high-impact flood events based on the number of fire-service operations and the methodology for identifying flood triggering rainfall thresholds”
  

Flood and adaptation:

• Lindsey McEwen, “Increasing small business resilience to flood risks: the role of flood memories, different knowledges and networks in adaptation”

• Philip Bubeck, “Using panel data to understand differences in individual recovery from flood impacts”

• Daniel Osberghaus, “Flood Risk and Income in a Highly Developed Country: How Flood Exposure, Vulnerability and Coping Capacity Relate to Household Income in Germany”

• Katrin Erdlenbruch, “Individual adaptation to floods in France”
  

Data collection procedure, feedbacks on uses:

• Daniela Molinari, “Challenges and gains of post-event data collection”

• Heidi Kreibich, “Surveys with flood affected households – what can we learn about damage processes”

• Frédéric Grelot, Data collection “SO-II (Flood Impacts Observation System) project”

• Reimund Schwarze, “Sequential disaster forensics: A case study on direct and socio-economic impacts”
  

Flood and fatalities and Data collection procedure:

• Olga Petrucci, “From regional to international databases: EUFF, the European Flood Fatalities Database”

• Maria Carmen Llasat, “Flood impacts evaluation in a scenario of climate change. The citizen science: a tool to improve flood impacts observation and adaptation”

• Freddy Vinet, “Flood related fatalities across the mediterranean basin”

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Goal of the workshop

This workshop aims to share experience between experts on flood impacts observation with a specific focus on :

• the different impacts such as damage (on households, on socio-economic buildings, on public infrastructure, on ecosystems, on pollution, on human health, etc) and different adaptation dynamics, recovery processes etc,
• the impact depending on the flood hazard intensity and type : river overflow, water run-off and marine submersion,
• continuous or intermittent observation methods,
• a short to long-term post-disaster observation,
• scientific data capitalisation and thereafter which analysis this allows.

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Programme

You can download the latest version of the official workshop programme at : workshop_programme_04-11-2019

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Confirmed international Researchers

• Dr Allan Beltran, University of Birmingham (Birmingham – United Kingdom),
• Dr Okmyung Bin, East Carolina University (Greenville – USA),
• Dr Philip Bubeck, University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science (Potsdam – Germany),
• Dr Emily Garner, West Virginia University (Virginia – USA),
• Dr Heidi Kreibich, GFZ Helmholtz Centre (Potsdam – Germany),
• Dr Maria Carmen Llasat, University of Barcelona, Applied Physics Department Barcelona – Spain,
• Prof Lindsey McEwen, University of the West of England Bristol (Bristol – United Kingdom),
• Dr Daniela Molinari, Politecnico di Milano (Milano – Italy),
• Dr Joe Morris, Cranfield University (Bedford – United Kingdom),
• Dr Daniel Osberghaus, Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim – Germany),
• Dr Katerina Papagiannaki, National Observatory of Athens (Athens – Greece),
• Dr Olga Petrucci, CNR : Research National Council (Cosenza – Italy),
• Dr Sally Priest, Middlesex University London (Londres – United Kingdom),
• Prof Reimund Schwarze, Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (Leipzig – Germany).

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Confirmed French Researchers

• Dr Katrin Erdlenbruch, Irstea, UMR G-Eau,
• Dr Frédéric Grelot, Irstea, UMR G-Eau,
• Cécile Hérivaux, BRGM,
• Dr Annabelle Moatty, University Paris 1 / LGP,
• Dr Sara Romano-Bertrand, University Montpellier, UMR HSM,
• Prof Freddy Vinet, University Montpellier Paul Valery, UMR GRED,