SaferPlaces 
IMPROVED ASSESSMENT OF PLUVIAL, FLUVIAL AND COASTAL FLOOD HAZARDS AND RISKS IN EUROPEAN CITIES AS A MEAN TO BUILD SAFER AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
SAFERPLACES employs innovative climate, hydrological and hydraulic, topographic and economic modelling techniques to assess pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood hazard and risk in urban environments under current and future climates.
The service is designed to advice identification and assessment of flood risk mitigation measures and plans, inform climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies, and help to foster multi-stakeholder agreements and partnership for resilience building.
In particular SAFERPLACES sets to:
- further develop and enhance, test and demonstrate applicability of efficient and scalable flood hazard and risk mapping and assessment service in urban context, largely needed for devising climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies and plans;
- facilitate multi-stakeholder dialog and identification of disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation measures and strategies,
- new business opportunities, and financial and economic incentives for behavioural and land-use changes, by employing nature or ecosystem-based solutions such as natural water retention and urban requalification
THE ISSUE
URBAN FLOODING: PLUVIAL, COASTAL AND FLUVIAL
Floods are responsible for 40% of these losses and together with storms denote the major natural hazard type in terms of economic damage. With high confidence, climate change is very likely to amplify extreme precipitation and flood hazards in many regions across Europe
THE INNOVATION
INNOVATIVE FLOOD RISK MAPPING TOOLS
SAFERPLACES employs innovative climate, hydrological and hydraulic, topographic and economic modelling techniques to assess pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood hazard and risk in urban environments under current and future climates.
THE PURPOSES
DEMOCRATIZING FLOOD RISK MODELS TO SUPPORT CLIMATE RESILIENCE IN URBAN CITIES
The service is designed to advice identification and assessment of flood risk mitigation measures and plans, inform climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies, and help to foster multi-stakeholder agreements and partnership for resilience building
THE APPROACH
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER CO-DESIGN & CO-DEVELOPMENT
facilitate multi-stakeholder dialog and identification of disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation measures and strategies, new business opportunities, and financial and economic incentives for behavioural and land-use changes, by employing nature- or ecosystem-based solutions such as natural water retention and urban requalification
THE VALUE
SAFERPLACES DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
SAFERPLACES aims at supporting better flood hazard and risk evaluations, and identification of new opportunities associated with better prevention and protection and climate adaptation. The service fills two main knowledge gaps: (i) sound analysis of the current and future hazard and risk; (ii) a spatially-explicit economic assessment of flood impacts
THE CONCEPT
THE WEB GUI MOCKUP
Please take a look at the Web GUI MockUp available here:
RIMINI Pilot https://gecos.invisionapp.com/public/share/3HWTR34K4
COLOGNE Pilot https://gecos.invisionapp.com/public/share/BUWTR2Y47
USER’S REQUIREMENTS SURVEY
SHORT SURVEY : https://forms.gle/Wj95tRMrSUEHbgQc9
FULL VERSION: https://forms.gle/GwMugbAL64LHebG36
Engagement
News
SaferPlaces at the Oasis Hub autumn 2020 webinar series: climate tools for cities, insurance and utilities
The unique Cloud Web Platform developed within SaferPlaces project will be the topic of the first webinar of the Oasis Hub autumn 2020 webinar series about climate adaptation and risk assessment tools for cities, insurance and [...]
SaferPlaces at “Climate Thursdays”: urban flood risk and adaptation challenges
SaferPlaces is gladly participating for the second time to the "Climate Thursdays" webinar series, talking about Urban flood risk and adaptation challenges. Climate change has particularly extreme effects in urban areas with flooding as an important [...]
SaferPlaces at “Climate Thursdays” webinar series
“Climate Thursdays”, a webinar series on climate services and climate-related innovations, is taking place over summer 2020 as side events to Climateurope webstivals. SaferPLACES, together with Copernicus Pluvial Flood Risk Assessment in Urban Areas, will organize [...]
The beta version of the SaferPlaces platform is now online!
The beta version of the SaferPlaces Platform, a cloud web service for cost-effective mapping of flood hazard and risk in urban areas, is now accessible online for everyone. You can test it directly at this link: [...]
New publications on flood damage assessment from Saferplaces EIT Climate-KIC project
The work done by the SaferPlaces team on DAMAGE modelling led to the successful publication of two articles. The first one, “Estimating exposure of residential assets to natural hazards in Europe using open data” was [...]
SaferPlaces article on the innovative pluvial flood hazard model Safer_RAIN was chosen as cover story for the June issue of the Journal Water
Double good news for the SaferPlaces team working on HAZARD modeling: the article “Safer_RAIN: A DEM-Based Hierarchical Filling-&-Spilling Algorithm for Pluvial Flood Hazard Assessment and Mapping across Large Urban Areas”, besides being published by the [...]
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While you're waiting for the next webstival, don't forget that we have #ClimateThursdays webinars for you to enjoy!
The next webinar is on Urban Flood Risk and Adaptation Challenges @Oasis_HUB @SaferPlacesCKIC
⏰: 27th August, 11am CEST
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Papers
Samela et al. 2020 -Safer_RAIN: A DEM-Based Hierarchical Filling-&-Spilling Algorithm for Pluvial Flood Hazard Assessment and Mapping across Large Urban Areas Water 2020, 12(6), 1514; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12061514
Paprotny et al. 2020 – Estimating exposure of residential assets to natural hazards in Europe using open data Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 323–343, 2020; https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-323-2020
Paprotny et al. 2020 – Exposure and vulnerability estimation for modelling flood losses to commercial assets in Europe, Sci. Total Environ., Vol. 737, 2020, 140011; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140011
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