Development of a method for the assessment of the extent of sea flooding and the assessment of flood damage to cultural and built heritage sites in the area of Slovenian Istria
| Project team: |
Andrej Kryžanowski, Simon Rusjan, Andrej Vidmar, Mateja Klun, Klaudija Lebar, Katarina Zabret, Dušan Žagar, Matjaž Mikoš, Mojca Šraj, Nejc Bezak, Mojca Vilfan, Tamara Kuzmanić, Mark Bryan Alivio |
| Duration: | 18 Months 1/12/2023—31/5/2025 |
| Project code: | V2-2369 |
| Lead partner: | UL FGG |
| Project leader: | Andrej Kryžanowski |
| Other project partner’s organization: | / |
| Source of finance: | Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency; Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning |
| Key words: | sea floods, floods, food risk, built culture heritage, cultural landscape, cost-benefit analysis, flood protection measures, flood damages, annual expected damage |
Description:
The impact of climate change is expected to increase the sea level rise in the coming decades. Such trends are being observed all over the world and the consequences of sea level rise are having a knock-on effect on the frequency of sea flooding. Due to its geographical location, we expect that the coastal areas of Slovenian Istria will be increasingly exposed to the impacts of sea level rise, with consequences on economic, social, and ecological conditions. There is already a trend towards statistically high flood events occurring with a greater frequency than has been the case in the past. These events are increasingly threatening the coastal towns of Slovenian Istria (Piran, Izola and Koper) with their impact on built cultural heritage, as well as other low-lying areas of cultural and natural landscape with a high nature conservation value (salt plains, Škocjanski zatok, etc.). As these extreme events become more frequent, flood damage is also increasing, and the need for flood protection measures to reduce exposure to sea flooding is becoming more urgent.
Main goals:
Goal 1: Definition of characteristic flood events based on the predictions of climate change scenarios and the records of the occurrence of exceptional tidal events.
Goal 2: Upgrade of the methodology for flood damage calculation due to sea floods, which is, due to sea water’s many adverse impacts, significantly different than that for inland water floods for all sectors.
Goal 3: Upgrade of the methodology for determining flood damage to various types of cultural heritage buildings and monuments, as well as cultural landscapes, as a result of sea floods, considering the characteristic features of cultural heritage buildings and monuments in the coastal areas of Slovenian Istria.
Goal 4: Development of a special module in the application to determine flood damage by the sea in the areas affected by sea flooding.
Project packages:
WP 1: Project management
WP 2: Definition of characteristic flood events
WP 3: Upgrading the methodology for calculating flood damage due to sea floods
WP 4: Upgrading the methodology for determining flood damage to cultural heritage buildings
WP 5: Development and upgrade of the KRPAN application with a module for determining damage due to sea floods
WP 6: Test of the revised method and software tool
WP 7: Dissemination