Flood Risk in Flanders

Maximal damage• Housing• Industry• Infrastructure• Airports• Recreation• Agriculture• Linear elements• Point elements

buildingsfurniture

field crops, vegetables, …pasture

cars

roads railroads

• Forest• “Nature”• Water

hospitals, mills, antennas, public buildings, …

Historical point elements

Other research

• Economic damage (polygons, lines, points)• Calculation of mortal victims• Differentiation between fresh and salt water

Some remarks:

• folders with an explanation of the methodology used in Flanders available• what we do is not totally new, we adapt methodologies from everywhere in Europe to the Flanders situation• lots of questions are still open:

what’s a good spatial scale for recording a norm (standard)? how to deal with uncertainty in legal norm en with evolution? …