Integrated ecological, economic and social impact assessment of alternative flood control policies in the Netherlands

Brouwer, Roy; Ek, R. van

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.01.020

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“…Brouwer and van Ek 2004). Moreover, designated flood disaster zones, which can be deployed in the case of flood emergency situations, were identified in the eastern part of the country (Brouwer and Schaafsma 2012). Besides 'hard' physical infrastructure, also 'soft' adaptation and mitigation mechanisms such as private insurance have been examined.…”

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Modelling risk adaptation and mitigation behaviour under different climate change scenarios

Brouwer¹,

Schaafsma²

2012

Climatic Change

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The main objective of this study is to simulate household choice behavior under varying climate change scenarios using choice experiments. Economic welfare measures are derived for society's willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce climate change induced flood risks through private insurance and willingness to accept compensation (WTAC) for controlled flooding under varying future risk exposure levels. Material flood damage and loss of life are covered in the insurance policy experiment, while the WTAC experiment also captures the economic value of immaterial flood damage such as feelings of discomfort, fear and social disruption. The results show that WTP and WTAC are substantial, suggesting a more prominent role of external social damage costs in cost-benefit analysis of climate change and flood mitigation policies.

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Modelling risk adaptation and mitigation behaviour under different climate change scenarios

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Schaafsma²

2012

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“…Referring to the case studies reported by Brouwer and van Ek (2004), Janssen et al (2003), Penning-Rowsell et al (2003), Socher et al (2006) and Bana et al (2004), one can notice that flood risk assessment using MCA is mainly focused to evaluate the flood mitigation rather than risk mapping (Meyer et al 2009). Cowen (1988) opined that GIS can be effectively used as a decision supporting tool to address the problems related to spatially referenced data.…”

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Flood risk assessment using multi-criteria analysis: a case study from Kopili River Basin, Assam, India

Roy

Chakravarthi

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Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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A multi-criteria analysis (MCA) approach to describe the effective utilization of geospatial techniques for disaster risk reduction at village level in Kopili River Basin (KRB) of Assam State, India is presented. The KRB is chronically flood affected due to seasonal monsoon and rise in water levels of Kopili River. Based on the MCA approach using flood hazard layer derived from the spatio-multi-temporal historic satellite data-sets (comprising of sensors from RISAT-1 SAR, Radarsat SAR and IRS AWiFS), socio-economic data (based on five census variables), infrastructure (road network) and land use vulnerabilities (cropped and uncropped areas), flood risk zones are derived. Our study elucidates that 24,837 ha of crop area spread across 95 villages in the KRB falls in high risk zone, about 39,209 ha distributed in 150 villages falls under moderate-high risk zones and remaining area spread over 162 villages is more or less unaffected. The proposed approach can be applied elsewhere in other river basins to estimate the flood risk so as to mitigate the disaster risk posed by the floods.

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“…For instance, a direct implication is that some (lowlying) areas must be designated to serve as excess water storage basins in case of extreme high river discharges. Decision-making involves the consideration and trading-off of impacts with respect to different endpoints (see for instance Brouwer and Van Ek 2004). So-called integrated assessment of the various pros and cons of policies involves stakeholder consultation in order to identify what is considered to be important.…”

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Neo-Atlantis: The Netherlands under a 5-m sea level rise

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What could happen to the Netherlands if, in 2030, the sea level starts to rise and eventually, after 100 years, a sea level of 5 m above current level would be reached? This question is addressed by studying literature, by interviewing experts in widely differing fields, and by holding an expert workshop on this question. Although most experts believe that geomorphology and current engineering skills would enable the country to largely maintain its territorial integrity, there are reasons to assume that this is not likely to happen. Social processes that precede important political decisions -such as the growth of the belief in the reality of sea level rise and the framing of such decisions in a proper political context (policy window) -evolve slowly. A flood disaster would speed up the decision-making process. The shared opinion of the experts surveyed is that eventually part of the Netherlands would be abandoned.

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Integrated ecological, economic and social impact assessment of alternative flood control policies in the Netherlands

Cited by 246 publications

References 10 publications

Modelling risk adaptation and mitigation behaviour under different climate change scenarios

Modelling risk adaptation and mitigation behaviour under different climate change scenarios

Flood risk assessment using multi-criteria analysis: a case study from Kopili River Basin, Assam, India

Neo-Atlantis: The Netherlands under a 5-m sea level rise

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