International workshop on “flood impacts observation”

14 chercheurs internationaux invités pour échanger sur le thème de l’observation des impacts des inondations. Un événement financé par la KIM WATERS (MUSE)

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.

Workshop participants

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”

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.

Programme

You can download the latest version of the official workshop programme here:

Confirmed internatinal researchers

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

Confirmed french researchers

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