Improving flood damage assessment models in Italy

Mattia Amadio, Jaroslav Mysiak (), Lorenzo Carrera and Elco Koks ()
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Mattia Amadio: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Lorenzo Carrera: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Elco Koks: VU University Amsterdam

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2016, vol. 82, issue 3, No 31, 2075-2088

Abstract: Abstract Flood damage assessments are often based on stage-damage curve (SDC) models that estimate economic damage as a function of flood characteristics (typically flood depths) and land use. SDCs are developed through a site-specific analysis, but are rarely adjusted to economic circumstances in areas to which they are applied. In Italy, assessments confide in SDC models developed elsewhere, even if empirical damage reports are collected after every major flood event. In this paper, we have tested, adapted and extended an up-to-date SDC model using flood records from Northern Italy. The model calibration is underpinned by empirical data from compensation records. Our analysis takes into account both damage to physical assets and losses due to foregone production, the latter being measured amidst the spatially distributed gross added value.

Keywords: Flood risk management; Stage depth-damage curves; Economic damage; Disaster losses; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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