Integrated flood risk management by NTUA / UB

This module aims to provide a basic knowledge of structural and non-structural measures for flood control. It also offers hydrological and hydraulic background for floods generation and propagation. Finally, it provides practical experience in using modelling tools.

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Subject Specific Knowledge, Understanding and Skills
By the end of this module, the students should:
have acquired basic knowledge of flood risk management;
have acquired understanding of the structural and non-structural measures for flood control, their characteristics and functioning;
be able to make appropriate and critical use of flood propagation and flood delineation modelling and flood risk management principles.
2. Core Academic Skills
By the end of this module, the students should:
be able to identify, formulate and analyse a flood risk management problem in a river basin or in an urban area;
be able to critically assess research results;
have acquired some practical experience of using flood control and flood delineation tools.
3. Personal and Key Skills
By the end of this module, the students should have:
improved further the necessary skills for independent learning;
enhanced report and presentation skills;
improved some IT skills.

SYLLABUS PLAN
Floods. Definitions. Flooding mechanisms. Flash floods and regional floods. Flood generating precipitations. Flood potential. Statistical characterization.
General problems of the inundations around the world. Outstanding floods. European projects for flood control. Flood mitigation problems.
Hydraulic analysis of flood propagation. Modelling of 1D and 2D flows. Model calibration. Limitations. Specific problems (flood encroachement, river bends etc.)
Implementation of theory by computer code Hec-Ras. Examples: steady flow flood floodway encroachment analysis, unsteady flow modelling.
Implementation of theory by computer code Hec-Ras. Examples: steady flow flood floodway encroachment analysis, unsteady flow modelling.
Flood risk. Definitions. Approximate methods for flood risk evaluation (Inondabilité, Swiss method etc).
Flood damage assessment. Uncertainties in flood damage estimation. Levee height design.
Flood risk mapping. Application of GIS and geodatabases in flood management.
Structural measures for flood control (dams, dikes, diversions).
Examples of complex schemes for integrated flood control.
Non-structural measures. Informational system of flood warning and forecasting. Up-dating the flood forecast. Flood management plans, and operation rules of the structural measures.
Post-inundation phase. Flood recovery measures and methods of damage compensation. Flood management policy, public awareness, socio-economics, land use. European Flood Directive

Start: 24 September 2012
Duration: 15 weeks
Credits: 8 ECTS
Web-link: http://www.water-msc.org/en/wrem301.htm