The role of Citizen Observatories
in Crisis management and
disaster resilience
Alto Adriatico Water Authority
MICHELE FERRI
Venice
7-10 June 2016
M. Ferri - The role of Citizen Observatories in Crisis management
and disaster resilience
Summary
• The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
• The Flood Risk Management Plan
• The Citizen Observatories as
Preparedness Measures
• Education campaigns for technicians and
citizens
The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
extension of about 40,000
Km2
average rainfall ranges
from 700 to 3000 mm/year
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The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
14 Units of Management Transboundary basins
ISONZO RIVER
Surface ≅ 41.000 km2
People ≅7.100.000
Municipalities 1.100
VENICE
LAGOON
Venice
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The Flood Risk Management Plan (FRMP) highlights the hazards and risks of
flooding from rivers, the sea, surface water,
groundwater and reservoirs, and set out how
Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) work
together with communities to manage flood risk
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The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
approved the plan in March 2016
the Flood Risk Management Plan includes:
flood hazard and risk maps
objectives for the purpose of managing the
flood risk
proposed measures for achieving those
objectives
The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
5500 km
hydrographic network
investigated
3800 km
hydrographic network
modelled
280 km
coastline investigated
Hazard and Risk
Mapping activities
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The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
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The role of Citizen Observatories in Crisis management and disaster resilience
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The role of Citizen Observatories in Crisis management and disaster resilience
The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
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Framework for risk assessment
Population Economic goods
Environmental and cultural heritage
Exposed and Vulnerability assets
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Number of inhabitants
Protected areas
Cultural heritage
Economic activities
The flood risk
maps
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Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
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Risk Assessment
Adaptive capacity
Coping capacity
Resilience
VULNERABILITY
Risk perception
Awareness Behaviors
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Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
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Risk Assessment
presence of people, livelihoods, environmental
resources, or economic, social, or cultural assets
in places that could be adversely affected
EXPOSURE
Evacuation Assets
handling/
transfer
The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
The Floods Directive (2007/60/CE), as the Water Framework Directive
(2000/60/EC), attributes to European citizens a key role in the
implementation of the Flood Managamente Plan;
Information Consultation Participation
People provided official observations regarding the implementation of
the Flood Management Plan
highest priority in the non-structural measures of prevention and preparedness
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The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
HUMAN HEALTH
ENVIRONMENT
CULTURAL
HERITAGE
ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES
Preparedness Protection
Prevention
measures
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The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
The measures
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The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
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In the Eastern Alps Hydrographic District, the citizen
observatory is promoted as a non structural mitigation
measure for flood risk in the implementation of the European
Flood Directive 2007/60/EC (preparedness measure M43_1)
According to the European Commission the project
WeSenseIt- Citizen Water Observatories
is one of the three examples of EU-funded projects that have
developed unique forecasting and alert systems to warn
communities of impending floods
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Citizen Observatory
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Citizens’ observatories are emerging as a means to establish
interaction and co-participation between citizens and authorities both during
emergencies but also during the day-to-day management
Authorities and citizens cooperate in:
sharing information about events and places
supporting a shared situation awareness, not only to improve response and
recovery, but also to improve prevention, protection and preparedness for future
emergency situations
implementing new approaches to participation in planning, decision making
and governance
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Citizen Observatory
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It's a virtual place of the two-way communication between citizens and
decision-making authorities
It’s the decision support at all stages of the floods management
process: preparedness, emergency, recovery
Vicenza (Italy)
Observatories allow citizens
and communities to take on a
new role in the information
chain
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Citizen Observatory
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Environmental structured data collection via optimized networks of sensors
as well as information provided directly by citizens (measurements, images,
messages) and via mining of social media portals
Citizens become active stakeholders in information capturing,
evaluation and communication
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Citizen Observatory
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communication Citizens
AUTHORITY
Physical
low cost
sensors
Social Sensors
Measures of:
- levels
- Flooded
areas
-critical
situations
Existing Monitoring network
(Physical sensors)
Flood
Forecasting
and Decision
Support
System
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Citizen Observatory
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Data collection of real-time
information on weather conditions,
river levels and floodings
Social Sensors Physical Sensors
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Citizen Observatory
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Development of predictive
models and decision-making
tools that will be able to
optimally assimilate both
social and physical data
Early Warning System
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Citizen Observatory
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Early Warning System
EWS (AMICO)
DATA IMPORTER wich is able to import and
validate data automatically every hour
DATA ASSIMILATION
River Levels (work in collaboration with UNESCO-IHE)
Supporting communication with the
teams of volunteers during an
emergency
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Citizen Observatory
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• to handle an emergency in real time
• to monitor the area in a comprehensive
manner
• to report in real time about Civil Protection
activities (transmitting volunteers’ position and
information in order to improve emergency
management)
Examples of useful information sent by Citizens to Authorities
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Citizen Observatory
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Emergency/danger reports Road practicability reports Floods reports
Examples of what citizens receive in return from the authorities
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Citizen Observatory
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Through GeoFence
functionality citizens
receive notifications
when they enter hazard
areas
Examples of what citizens receive in return from the authorities
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Citizen Observatory
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Safe points map
Through GeoFence functionality citizens receive
notifications when they enter areas of attention and
are invited to reach safe points
Geofence
Attention
Area
The citizen observatory
TRAINING activities with Civil Protection volunteers and professionals
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EDUCATION campaigns with school teachers and students
REAL TIME MONITORING
of the activities in
GATHERING POINTS and
SHELTERS
Some examples: VICENZA (April, 25th 2014) evacuation of the city due to the dismantle of a II World War Bomb
Explaing the
operation to
the head of
National Civil
Protection
Department
The impact
Control room
activities
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Some examples: VICENZA – Civil Protection Activities
Municipal emergency management plan - exercises
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The Observatory platform has been included in the
Civil Protection Plan of Vicenza municipality
Teams of volunteers are dedicated to the task of
monitoring with the application and e-
collaborative platform
The citizens are the hearth of the alert system: they
are involved in data collection and are made aware of
the risk that characterizes the place in which they live
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The Citizen Observatory can generate social but
also ECONOMICAL value!!!!
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Citizen Observatory’s potential:
• to create “resilient” models, harnessing the
power of the people to withstand a disaster
• to effectly help people and the authorities
involved during an emergency
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Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
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Framework for risk assessment
Cost of the flood: about 4ML euros
Cost of the flood: about 1ML euros
by: “SERRA application to flood risk
in the Vipacco Basin”, iEMSs, San
Diego 2014
THE CITIZEN OBSERVATORY AS FLOOD RISK MITIGATION MEASURE
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Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
Prevention (M2)
10 million euro
Protection (M3)
1000 million euro
Preparedness (M4)
10 million euro
PLANNED RESOURCES per Unit Of Management
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The Hydrographic District of Eastern Alps
Implementation of the Flood Directive:
The Flood Risk Management Plan
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Cost of the
Citizen
Observatory
measure
Preparedness measure M43_1
PLANNED RESOURCES per Unit Of Management
3.5 ML euros
Including creation and maintenance and services for 6 years
The road ahead To extend the application of the Citizen Observatory in Crisis
management and disaster resilience to other capitals of the
Veneto Region, and to other contexts in Italy and in Europe
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CONTACT Michele Ferri Autorità di Bacino dei Fiumi dell’Alto Adriatico E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 0413096006 Mobile: 3450557993
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