Advances in Flood Consequence Assessments

Explore advances in flood consequence assessments through this 55-minute webinar from the Australian Water School. Gain insights into proactive flood management decisions aided by numerical methods. Discover how numerical consequence assessment software combines hydraulic, financial, social, and mapping tools to predict flood damage, optimize evacuation routes, and estimate loss of life under various scenarios. Learn about flood damage models like HEC-LifeSim that provide insight into uncertain parameters with scalable analysis tools. Understand how map-based interfaces can quickly highlight traffic bottlenecks, flood hazards, and damage hot spots. Listen to a presentation by Paul Risher, Senior Water Resources Engineer at HDR, and engage with an expert panel including Woody Fields, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers author of HEC-LifeSim software, and Krey Price from Surfacewater Solutions. Cover topics such as building consequence models, structure inventories, road networks, effective messaging, protective actions, stability thresholds, and flood risk information portals.