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<p>The necessity of plural valuation of costs for flood risk management is widely acknowledged, but practical case studies are still scarce. We developed a GIS-based plural valuation framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood risk management intervention schemes on the Drava River, Southern Hungary. A conventional economic evaluation, including land market prices and additional costs due to legal conservation restrictions, was complemented by ecological valuation of vulnerability. The inclusion of ecological vulnerability significantly changed the proposed priority areas for flood risk management interventions: in this case, softwood riparian forests face far less threat, together with other Natura 2000 habitats, in comparison to unprotected wetlands and grasslands. This valuation framework also highlights priority habitats and areas for joint conservation and water management projects, utilising the synergies between several EU Directives as the Birds Directive, Habitats Directive, Flood Directive, and Water Framework Directive. Our framework is adaptable for the other floodplains along major or medium-sized European rivers, assuming that specific local settings are considered.</p>
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The necessity of plural valuation of costs for flood risk management is widely acknowledged, but practical case studies are still scarce. We developed a GIS-based plural valuation framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood risk management intervention schemes on the Drava River, Southern Hungary. A conventional economic evaluation, including land market prices and additional costs due to legal conservation restrictions, was complemented by ecological valuation of vulnerability. The inclusion of ecological vulnerability significantly changed the proposed priority areas for flood risk management interventions: in this case, softwood riparian forests face far less threat, together with other Natura 2000 habitats, in comparison to unprotected wetlands and grasslands. This valuation framework also highlights priority habitats and areas for joint conservation and water management projects, utilising the synergies between several EU Directives as the Birds Directive, Habitats Directive, Flood Directive, and Water Framework Directive. Our framework is adaptable for the other floodplains along major or medium-sized European rivers, assuming that specific local settings are considered.

A GIS-based framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood risk management intervention schemes

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The necessity of plural valuation of costs for flood risk management is widely acknowledged, but practical case studies are still scarce. We developed a...

A GIS-based framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood risk management intervention schemes

Publicado en línea: 15 oct 2022

Páginas: 211 - 226

Recibido: 12 ene 2022

Aceptado: 09 ago 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2022-0014

Palabras clave
plural valuation framework, decision support system, ecological vulnerability, riparian forests, wetlands, Water Framework Directive, Hungary

© 2022 Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A GIS-based framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood risk management intervention schemes

Publicado en línea: 15 oct 2022

Páginas: 211 - 226

Recibido: 12 ene 2022

Aceptado: 09 ago 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2022-0014

Palabras claveplural valuation framework, decision support system, ecological vulnerability, riparian forests, wetlands, Water Framework Directive, Hungary

© 2022 Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
plural valuation framework, decision support system, ecological vulnerability, riparian forests, wetlands, Water Framework Directive, Hungary