The Tous dam disaster of 1982 and the origins of integrated flood risk management in Spain

Serra‐Llobet, Anna; Tàbara, J. David; Pujol, David Saurí i

doi:10.1007/s11069-012-0458-0

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“…Together with economic factors, this decrease could be attributed to the first effective flood mitigation measures. These structural solutions, which will be analysed later, were widely demanded by the public due to the high number of flood disasters which occurred during the 1980s on the Spanish Mediterranean coastline (Serra-Llobet et al, 2013).…”

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Housing bubbles and the increase of flood exposure. Failures in flood risk management on the Spanish south‐eastern coast (1975–2013)

Pérez-Morales

Gil-Guirado

Cantos

2015

J Flood Risk Management

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In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in economic losses caused by flood events on the coastal region of south-eastern Spain. The increase of extreme rainfall events forecast by the climate change models is currently not reflected in the statistics which suggests that the principal cause is due to the exposure experienced within the past 40 years. Consequently, it is interesting to evaluate the effect of urban growth in flood-prone areas and the role played by government institutions in mitigating the increase in exposure. For this study, the cadastral information and the hydrological modelling data for the return periods of 10, 50, 100 and 500 years were used. This allows high-resolution spatial-temporal results to be obtained that show one of the most significant growths in exposure in Spain and Europe, as well as the low efficiency that risk mitigation measures have had.

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Housing bubbles and the increase of flood exposure. Failures in flood risk management on the Spanish south‐eastern coast (1975–2013)

Pérez-Morales

Gil-Guirado

Cantos

2015

J Flood Risk Management

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“…Además de factores económicos, este cambio pudo deberse a la aplicación de las primeras medidas efectivas de mitigación del riesgo por los municipios litorales españoles. Estas actuaciones estructurales se desarrollaron como respuesta a la demanda social de soluciones al problema de reiterados episodios de inundación ocurridos en los años ochenta en el litoral mediterráneo (Serra-Llobet, Tàbara & Saurí, 2013). A ello obedecieron el Plan de Defensa contra avenidas de la cuenca del Segura y las obras de canalización de cauces menores -barrancos y ramblas-llevadas a cabo en diversos municipios del litoral murciano y alicantino.…”

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La información catastral como herramienta para el análisis de la exposición al peligro de inundaciones en el litoral mediterráneo español

2016

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issn impreso 0250-7161 | issn digital resumen | El análisis de riesgo en áreas urbanas es una exigencia legal en España. La normativa estatal del suelo y las autonómicas de ordenación territorial y urbanística contemplan la obligación de incluir cartografía de riesgo en los procesos de planificación. En las últimas tres décadas, el riesgo frente a inundaciones se ha incrementado notablemente en algunas regiones españolas en relación con la ocupación de áreas inundables con usos residenciales. La información catastral se convierte en una herramienta eficaz para la valoración de la exposición al peligro de inundaciones. En este artículo se analiza la potencialidad de esta información y su integración con la cartografía del Sistema Nacional de Cartografías de Zonas Inundables en un área del litoral mediterráneo que ha experimentado un incremento desaforado de su parque de viviendas, como método de trabajo aplicable en otros territorios para la valoración de la exposición al riesgo y la elaboración de cartografía de detalle.palabras clave | planificación territorial, riesgos naturales, vulnerabilidad.

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“…In Spain, groundwater was private property until 1985, when a new Water Act recognized that both surface and groundwater were part of the same water cycle so they should be managed under the same plan at a river basin scale. The first attempts at integrated flood risk management appeared in Spain after the catastrophic Tous Dam break in Valencia in 1982, which triggered a radical change in the way floods were managed [47]. For first time, non-structural measures such as land use planning, flood risk mapping, early warning systems and a coordinated public flood insurance system were used.…”

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Governing for Integrated Water and Flood Risk Management: Comparing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Spain and California

Serra‐Llobet

Conrad

Schaefer

2016

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Flood risk management in the context of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) is becoming widely accepted as an approach to improving resilience in light of increasing flood risks due to climate change and other factors. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the governance arrangements needed for effectively implement integrated approaches to managing flood risk. We compare how IWRM and flood risk management have been operationalized within "top-down" and "bottom-up" governance arrangements in the European Union and the United States. We focus in particular on two case study regions, the Catalan coastal region in Spain and the San Francisco Bay Area in California, which have strong similarities in economy, climate, and environmental values, but different institutional settings. Our findings contribute empirical evidence of the need for a balance between "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches. While the San Francisco Bay Area's strongly collaborative and participatory approach has generated new connections among flood managers and other stakeholders, the lack of a central entity with the capacity and mandate for on-going coordination and region-wide risk assessments appears to constrain its ability to support integrated and adaptive management. The European Union's top-down approach and the presence of a central authority at the river basin scale have led to a consolidated regional plan in Catalonia encompassing all phases of flood risk management, but the degree of engagement and opportunities for knowledge-sharing among participants may be more limited.

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The Tous dam disaster of 1982 and the origins of integrated flood risk management in Spain

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

Housing bubbles and the increase of flood exposure. Failures in flood risk management on the Spanish south‐eastern coast (1975–2013)

Housing bubbles and the increase of flood exposure. Failures in flood risk management on the Spanish south‐eastern coast (1975–2013)

La información catastral como herramienta para el análisis de la exposición al peligro de inundaciones en el litoral mediterráneo español

Governing for Integrated Water and Flood Risk Management: Comparing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Spain and California

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