Risk assessment for flood incident management: framework and tools

A framework and tools to assess the probability and impacts of various modes of ‘failure’ in the chain of response in flood incident management.

From:
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
Published
17 February 2021
Category:
Managing flood incidents
Topics:
Decision making with uncertainty, Flood forecasting, Flood risk assessment, Flood risk governance, Hydrology, Incident management, Meteorology, Monitoring and detection
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC050028
Date of completion:
31 March 2006

Documents

Risk assessment for flood incident management - summary (340KB) PDF

Risk assessment for flood incident management: framework and tools - technical report (3MB) PDF

Risk assessment for flood incident management: impacts of failure of flood defence assets (1MB) PDF

Risk assessment for flood incident management: risks and consequences - technical report (2.1MB) PDF

Risk assessment for flood incident management: understanding risk assessment models - technical report (1.9MB) PDF

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Details

The success of flood incident management (FIM) depends on many operational components, including:

  • rain and flow gauges
  • telemetry and communication systems
  • hydrological and hydraulic models
  • data interpretation
  • decision-making

This project proposes a range of performance indicators to measure the process and outcomes of FIM.

This research formulates a framework and outlines tools to assess the probability and impacts of various modes of ‘failure’ in the chain of response. It recommends the adoption of a three-tiered approach to risk assessment in FIM. This would allow appropriate effort to be applied based on several factors, including:

  • decision-making requirements
  • scale of risk
  • degree of uncertainty
  • size of catchment
  • the unique characteristics of the catchment

This project ran from 2005 to 2006.

Published 17 February 2021
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