Working Group F Thematic Workshop - Flash Floods and Pluvial Flooding. Abstracts and Full Papers
The present booklet collects abstracts and full papers of the oral and poster contributions to the Thematic Workshop on “Flash Floods and Pluvial Flooding”, held in Cagliari (Italy) on 26–28 May 2010. The workshop is part of a series sponsored by Working Group F on Floods (WG F) of the EC Common Implementation Strategy for the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC looking at the implementation of Directive 2007/60/EC (Floods Directive).
The Floods Directive aims in the reduction of the destructive effects of floods through the assessment and management of flood risk, respecting fixed deadlines. Member States must analyse which areas are at serious risk by 2011, and produce flood hazard maps and flood risk maps by 2013 and flood risk management plans by the end of 2015. In elaborating their flood risk management plans, Member States shall consider the entire spectrum of types of flood event, some of which can have disastrous consequences on their territories. The Cagliari Thematic Workshop, which was organized by the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA, IT) with the support of WG F, the Italian Ministry of Environment and Sardinia Region (IT), was focused on addressing the problem of the elaboration of risk management plans in the particular case of flash flood or pluvial flooding events, which are frequently occurring all around Europe.
Almost 120 among delegates from Member States and invited speakers across Europe attended the workshop. A plenary session, which provided a characterization of flash flood and pluvial flooding events across Europe, was then followed by four thematic sessions exploring the topics:
1. Events characterization, analysis and approaches to hazard assessment;
2. High intensity storms and flood: monitoring, nowcasting and forecasting;
3. Structural and non structural measures: planning and prioritization;
4. Socio-economic aspects.
Syntheses of Member States’ contributions to the thematic workshop are provided in the present booklet. Major details on the Cagliari Workshop are available on the ISPRA’s website at: http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/en/archive/events/documents/flash-floods.