Online estimation of flood damage in The Netherlands

Online estimation of flood damage in The Netherlands

Hoes, O.A.C.
Tariq, M.A.U.R.
Van de Giesen, N.C.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Water Management

2014-10-01

This paper presents a recently developed model in the Netherlands for the online estimation of damage caused by floods. The model attempts to fill the lack of a consistent framework for the assessment of damage for all water authorities and all floods in the Netherlands. A framework was necessaiy to be able to evaluate the cost and benefit of measures, and moreover, needed to be consistent in order to be able to compare results from different water authorities. Our model estimates both direct - water induced - damages and indirect economic damages such as the interruption of production during the period needed for recoveiy measures and detour time caused by blocked roads. The presented model is featured by a high resolution land use map and elevation data for the whole country in combination with economic data, data on flood characteristics and stage-damage functions. The usefulness of the model is demonstrated in a case study estimating expected flood damage in a flood-prone polder area in the Netheriands.

Flood damage
stage damage curves

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9ba7618d-ef72-4f78-9e61-c797a65d3051

Institute of lowland and marine Research Saga University

4-921090-06-8

proceedings of the 9th international symposium on lowland technology, ISLT 2014, 553-558. (2014)

Institutional Repository

conference paper

(c) Hoes, O.A.C.
Tariq, M.A.U.R.
Van de Giesen, N.C.