Subventions et des contributions :

Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019).

Flooding, as a major natural disaster worldwide, threatens human lives and causes billions of dollars in damagex000D
each year. Accurate flood risk assessment, through proper representation of flood hazard, vulnerability andx000D
exposure, is crucial for the design, planning and management of societies and infrastructure. This project willx000D
develop a novel probabilistic flood modelling framework for accurate and precise estimation of floodx000D
characteristics (i.e. flood volume, extent, depth, velocity, time to peak, among others) which, coupled with thex000D
risk assessment package developed by RiskLogik, will be used to generate resilience plans for criticalx000D
infrastructure. The proposed framework will provide a single most reliable estimate of flood characteristics thatx000D
is suitable for risk and resilience assessment, and will quantify uncertainties in hydrologic and hydrodynamicx000D
modelling, flow hydrographs, parameters, and topographic data. The project will investigate an innovativex000D
extreme value approach that does not require threshold selection for flood estimation, and will propose ax000D
multi-objective performance measure for model optimization. The integrated framework (flood modelx000D
integrated with RiskLogik's software) will systematically assess the vulnerability of critical infrastructure tox000D
flood risks in Canada and around the globe and evaluate/generate resilience plans. There will be considerablex000D
economic, social and environmental benefits for municipalities and other stakeholders in Canada and aroundx000D
the globe through the development of flood mitigation strategies using this framework.