D6.2 From hazard to risk: models for the DEMOs - Part 6 -France -Brague catchment
Résumé
Flash floods and torrential floods occur frequently in the Brague catchment, the last extreme
event in Oct. 2015 was a large-scale disaster. Located in Southern France, the Brague catchment
is challenged by flood hazards threatening residential and economic areas. Those living in floodprone
areas face the risk of severe damage to their infrastructures due to torrential floods
eventually aggravated after forest wildfire, and those living outside flooded areas have to cope
with runoff hazards. These natural disasters, although they are natural drivers of ecology and
geomorphology, generate large losses to economy and human lives. Flood and fire risk analysis
combined to nature-based solutions (NBS) are an opportunity to reduce vulnerability and to
assess the value of NBS. This report aims at presenting the methodology developed in the
Brague DEMO to assess the potential efficiency of nature-based solutions. The main strategies
that will be investigated are a series of NBS spread along the river corridor in the lowlands where
the largest number of assets and people is concentrated. However, a significant part of the
catchment is still occupied by forests and a study of forest fire hazards and possible cascading
consequences on floods in the lowlands will also be performed in order to raise the awareness
of the current flood reduction ecosystem service of forests. The report is organized as follows:
(i) fire hazards, (ii) hydrology (rainfall and runoff modelling), (iii) hydraulics, (iv) exposure based
on insurance flood claims and (v) integrated flood protection schemes (assessment and portfolio
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