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Dam-Break Flood Emergency Management System

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  • Armanda Rodrigues
  • Maria Santos
  • A. Santos
  • Fernanda Rocha

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Natural or induced floods are of increasing concern to watermanagers and civil protection services for three main reasons.Firstly, a continuous and 'unconscious' increase of socialpressure in the flooding valleys amplifies flood vulnerabilitiesand consequently natural or induced flood risk. Secondly, thealarming forecasts of the impact of potential climate changes onwater resources, in spite of the high uncertainty associated tothese forecasts, points out to larger flood hazards. Thirdly,dam-break induced accidents may occur more frequently due toinfrastructure aging.Emergency Planning is a non-structural measure to minimise floodimpacts playing an important role in crisis management. In fact,if a disaster cannot be avoided, individual and social structurepreparedness may be of great help in risk reduction.An Internet-based system that supports flood emergencymanagement is presented in this article. This application is partof a more complete system, developed with the goal of endowingthe Portuguese water authorities, dam owners and the civilprotection system, with adequate tools to store and easilyretrieve information on dams and their downstream valleys, tomodel the flood wave induced by a dam break and, eventually, tomanage the response to flood-induced catastrophes. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002

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  • Armanda Rodrigues & Maria Santos & A. Santos & Fernanda Rocha, 2002. "Dam-Break Flood Emergency Management System," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 16(6), pages 489-503, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:waterr:v:16:y:2002:i:6:p:489-503
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1022225108547
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    1. J. Ballesteros-Cánovas & M. Sanchez-Silva & J. Bodoque & A. Díez-Herrero, 2013. "An Integrated Approach to Flood Risk Management: A Case Study of Navaluenga (Central Spain)," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(8), pages 3051-3069, June.
    2. Cuiyun Cheng & Xin Qian & Yuchao Zhang & Qingeng Wang & Jinbao Sheng, 2011. "Estimation of the evacuation clearance time based on dam-break simulation of the Huaxi dam in Southwestern China," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 57(2), pages 227-243, May.
    3. Shobeir Karami & Ezatollah Karami, 2020. "Sustainability assessment of dams," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 2919-2940, April.
    4. Afiq Hipni & Ahmed El-shafie & Ali Najah & Othman Karim & Aini Hussain & Muhammad Mukhlisin, 2013. "Daily Forecasting of Dam Water Levels: Comparing a Support Vector Machine (SVM) Model With Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS)," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(10), pages 3803-3823, August.
    5. Wim Kellens & Wouter Vanneuville & Els Verfaillie & Ellen Meire & Pieter Deckers & Philippe Maeyer, 2013. "Flood Risk Management in Flanders: Past Developments and Future Challenges," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(10), pages 3585-3606, August.

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