The ECFAS Impact Tool performs a comprehensive analysis of the impacts generated by coastal inundation by assessing the affected population, the damage to buildings, roads and railways and the exposure of a variety of other assets (e.g. agriculture, points of interest, etc.). The source code (MATLAB 2021b) is provided along with a Windows stand-alone executable. The user can reproduce the impact assessment for the ECFAS test cases, and for user-defined study cases, providing the proper input. The ECFAS Impact Tool is composed of a compressed directory with MATLAB 2021b scripts, a compiled version (Windows 10) of the code and a technical document. All products were implemented under Task 5.3 – Selection and verification of the impact assessment method and represent the Deliverable 5.3 – Algorithms for impact assessment.
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Now that you understand a little about impacts of coastal flooding, you can read a little further via the following resources:
1. Bubeck, P., Dillenardt, L., Alfieri, L., Feyen, L., Thieken, A. H., & Kellermann, P., 2019. Global warming to increase flood risk on European railways. Climatic Change, 155(1), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02434-5
2. Duo, E., Fernández-Montblanc, T., and Armaroli, C.,2020. Semi-probabilistic coastal flood impact analysis: From deterministic hazards to multi-damage model impacts. Environment International, 143, 105884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105884
3. Figueiredo, R., Schröter, K., Weiss-Motz, A., Martina, M. L., Kreibich, H., 2018. Multi-model ensembles for assessment of flood losses and associated uncertainty. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18(5), 1297-1314. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1297-2018
4. Huizinga, J., de Moel, H., and Szewczyk, W., 2017. Global flood depth-damage functions: Methodology and the database with guidelines (No. JRC105688). Joint Research Centre (Seville site). http://dx.doi.org/10.2760/16510
5. Molinari, D., Scorzini, A. R., Arrighi, C., Carisi, F., Castelli, F., Domeneghetti, A., Gallazzi, A., Galliani, M., Grelot, F., Kellermann, P., Kreibich, H., Mohor, G. S., Mosimann, M., Natho, S., Richert, C., Schroeter, K., Thieken, A. H., Zischg, A. P., and Ballio, F., 2020. Are flood damage models converging to “reality”? Lessons learnt from a blind test, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2997–3017. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2997-2020
6. Van Ginkel, K. C., Dottori, F., Alfieri, L., Feyen, L., & Koks, E. E., 2021. Flood risk assessment of the European road network. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(3), 1011-1027. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1011-2021
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For more information on the Impacts Approach in ECFAS see: https://www.ecfas.eu/public-deliverables/coastal-vulnerability-and-shoreline-mapping/
