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Chapter 8
Perspectives
The outcomes of this research highlight the following directions for further
investigation in the Barcelonnette area:
8.1 Risk Analysis and Management
In order to have an available and effective tool for information, as well as a valuable
basis for priority setting and further technical, financial, and political decisions
regarding flood risk management after flood hazard assessment, it is necessary to
provide the establishment of flood risk management. For the flood hazard estimation
to identify the use of flood risk analysis as a part of an integrated flood risk man-
agement, future research should continue to provide a methodological and applied
contribution to the field of flood risk analysis, which will be used for risk compar-
ison, risk communication, setting priorities for public funding, project optimization,
the elaboration of risk sharing options, and for the cost-benefit analysis. The methods
and algorithms used in this work will be applicable for other watersheds with similar
geomorphological and climatic conditions. In order to continue the research, the
focus will be on the tasks of a quantitative risk analysis and management as:
(a) Loss analysis.
(b) Risk quantification.
(c) Evaluation of uncertainty.
Flood ''loss analysis'' covers a social, economic, and environmental dimension.
A specific issue in flood loss analysis is the limitation of methods and data, such as loss
functions and spatial information on the elements at risk. [ 1 , 2 ]and[ 3 ]nameda
number of flood characteristics that determine the magnitude of losses. These char-
acteristics cover the inundation depth, the flow velocity, the inundation duration, etc.
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