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
German Press Release on the SafePlaces Cloud Web Platform
Thanks to the contribution of our German parner GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the news portal Idw News, sharing press releases from more than 1000 scientific institutions together with current information from science and [...]
SaferPlaces at the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator
We are glad to share that SaferPlaces has been accepted to Phase 2 of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme after submitting Phase 1 short application during the month of June. We are now [...]
SaferPlaces joined EU InvestHorizon Accelerator
We are very pleased to announce that SaferPlaces has joined EU InvestHorizon Accelerator! InvestHorizon is a programme financed by the European Commission, in association with Eureka, to facilitate series A funding for selected deep [...]
Forth SaferPlaces Spanish End-users and Stakeholders workshop – June 2021
El cuarto y último Workshop del proyecto SaferPlaces destinado a los usuarios españoles se celebrará el viernes 18 de junio a las 10:00, enteramente en español y de forma telemática, utilizando la plataforma Zoom. [...]
Forth SaferPlaces Italian End-users and Stakeholders workshop – May 2021
Il quarto ed ultimo workshop del progetto SaferPlaces, destinato agli utenti italiani, si svolgerà durante la mattinata di mercoledì 26 maggio 2021 interamente in lingua italiana. Durante l’evento verranno presentate le nuove funzionalità integrate nella [...]
SaferPlaces Third German, Spanish and Italian End-users and Stakeholders Workshops – November 2020
During the month of November 2020, SaferPlaces is organizing the third round of national workshops, aiming at supporting German, Spanish and Italian stakeholders familiarizing with the developed cloud web platform and ultimately providing them the [...]
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
Paprotny et al. 2020 – “BANSHEE–A MATLAB toolbox for Non-Parametric Bayesian Networks”. SoftwareX Volume 12, July–December 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100588
Paprotny et al. 2020 – A probabilistic approach to estimating residential losses from different flood types, Natural Hazards (December 2020); https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-020-04413-x
Persiano et al. 2020 – Changes in seasonality and magnitude of sub-daily rainfall extremes in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) and potential influence on regional rainfall frequency estimation, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 32, 100751; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100751
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