A global network for operational flood risk reduction

Alfieri, Lorenzo; Cohen, Sagy; Galantowicz, John; Schumann, Guy J.-P.; Trigg, Mark A.; Zsoter, Ervin; Prudhomme, Christel; Kruczkiewicz, Andrew; Coughlan de Perez, Erin; Flamig, Zachary; Rudari, Roberto; Wu, Huan; Adler, Robert F.; Brakenridge, Robert G.; Kettner, Albert; Weerts, Albrecht; Matgen, Patrick; Islam, Saiful A.K.M; de Groeve, Tom; Salamon, Peter. 2018 A global network for operational flood risk reduction. Environmental Science & Policy, 84. 149-158. 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.014

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.014

Abstract/Summary

Every year riverine flooding affects millions of people in developing countries, due to the large population exposure in the floodplains and the lack of adequate flood protection measures. Preparedness and monitoring are effective ways to reduce flood risk. State-of-the-art technologies relying on satellite remote sensing as well as numerical hydrological and weather predictions can detect and monitor severe flood events at a global scale. This paper describes the emerging role of the Global Flood Partnership (GFP), a global network of scientists, users, private and public organizations active in global flood risk management. Currently, a number of GFP member institutes regularly share results from their experimental products, developed to predict and monitor where and when flooding is taking place in near real-time. GFP flood products have already been used on several occasions by national environmental agencies and humanitarian organizations to support emergency operations and to reduce the overall socio-economic impacts of disasters. This paper describes a range of global flood products developed by GFP partners, and how these provide complementary information to support and improve current global flood risk management for large scale catastrophes. We also discuss existing challenges and ways forward to turn current experimental products into an integrated flood risk management platform to improve rapid access to flood information and increase resilience to flood events at global scale.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.014
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	UKCEH Fellows
ISSN:	1462-9011
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	Global Flood Partnership (GFP), disaster risk management, satellite remote sensing, flood monitoring, early warning systems
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences Hydrology
Date made live:	05 Apr 2018 12:02 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519754

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.014

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

UKCEH Fellows

ISSN:

1462-9011

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.

Additional Keywords:

Global Flood Partnership (GFP), disaster risk management, satellite remote sensing, flood monitoring, early warning systems