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Contract No.: GOCE-CT-2004-505420
Coordinator: Dr. Paul Samuels, HR Wallingford, UK
Project duration: 2004 - 2009
Official project website: www.floodsite.net
 The FLOODsite Integrated Project covers the physical, environmental, ecological and socio-economic aspects of floods from
rivers, estuaries and the sea. The FLOODsite will produce improved understanding of specific flood processes and mechanism
and methodologies for flood risk analysis and management starting with management of risk and ends up with detailed
assessment in specific areas. It includes specific actions on the hazard of coastal extremes and flash flood forecasting,
as well as understanding of vulnerability and flood impacts, which are critical to improving the mitigation of flood risk
from all causes. The project seeks to identify technologies and strategies for sustainable flood mitigation and defence.
 Several
pilot studies are included in FLOODsite. These will identify lessons from recent floods, and test the proposed
operational use of methods on integrated risk management and sustainable flood defence (e.g. the Thames estuary, the Elbe
river basin or the Ebro coastal delta) or manitoring and validation of flash floods (e.g. Adige river, than sites in France
and Spain).
Moreover, FLOODsite will develop common language, guidance and tools for dissemination of the project results and professional
training packages. FLOODsite will build upon the previous and current European and national research and practice in river
and coastal flood processes and flood risk mitigation methods to promote consistency of approach.
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