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- Title
Managing residual flood risk behind levees: Comparing USA, France, and Quebec (Canada).
- Authors
Serra-Llobet, Anna; Tourment, Rémy; Montané, Antonin; Buffin-Belanger, Thomas
- Abstract
Although hydraulic infrastructure such as levees remain important for flood risk management in the USA, France, and Quebec (Canada), there is increasing emphasis on nonstructural measures, such as regulatory flood maps, to reduce exposure and vulnerability, for example, preventing people from building in high hazard areas. One key concept related to areas protected by levees is that of "residual risk", that is, the risk from floods greater than the design standard of the levees (levee overtopping) and from levee breach. In this article, we review the legislative framework for regulatory flood maps in the USA, France, and Quebec (Canada) and compare how residual risk behind protective structures is taken into account (or not) in regulatory flood maps. We find big differences in how the USA, France and Canada manage residual risk behind the levees. While in France the area behind levees is part of the regulatory flood prone area, and land use restrictions, building codes, emergency measures and risk communication are mandatory, in the USA the area behind levees is only shown as part of the regulatory flood prone area if the levee is not accredited. In Quebec, regulatory flood maps in general follow the French approach with a few exceptions.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Quebec); FRANCE; FLOOD risk; LEVEES; FLOOD warning systems; RISK communication; LAND use
- Publication
Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2022, Vol 15, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1753-318X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jfr3.12785