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Papers by Jelena BATICA

Research paper thumbnail of Opportunities and Challenges of Natural-Based Solutions in Urban Areas—French Case Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Urban Scale Uncertainty for Runoff Generation. Case study Nice, France

Journées de l'hydraulique, 2014

The runoff in urban areas is related with high uncertainty due to small spatial soil variability’... more The runoff in urban areas is related with high uncertainty due to small spatial soil variability’s (soil properties), temporal variability’s (variations in rainfall intensity) and topographical variability’s. The paper focuses on different topography used in runoff generation. The obtained results present runoff generation in the case study area using different digital terrain models. The results show significantly different flood depth with respect to used digital elevation models that include buildings and transportation network and the models that do not include buildings. Simplification of high resolution of LiDAR Digital Surface Model (DSM) is done by re-sampling original 2x2m grid to larger size. The flow model is developed using MIKE21. The analysed urban area is represented by urban geometry created in ArcGis 10 and MIKE21. Chosen case study area is located in south east area of France. This Mediterranean city is characterized with high precipitation episodes that present a risk to the build environment and population. Within CORFU FP7 project these characteristics are analyzed and presented in order to analyze the flood risk, improve the existing flood risk management and rise up flood resilience.Batica Jelena, Gourbesville Philippe. Urban Scale Uncertainty for Runoff Generation. Case study Nice, France. In: SimHydro 2014. New Trends in Simulation. 11-13 June 2014 Ecole Polytech’ Nice (France) 2014

Research paper thumbnail of The development of socio-economic scenarios for urban flood risk management

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 23, 2013

HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re... more HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.

Research paper thumbnail of Operational Resilience Index Computation Tool as a Decision Support System Integrated in Eu Risks Management Platforms—Test on Biguglia Catchment, a Mediterranean Intense Precipitations Regime Prone Area

Springer water, 2020

A Decision Support tool, relying on resilience assessment approach has been developed to reinforc... more A Decision Support tool, relying on resilience assessment approach has been developed to reinforce decision makers for climate related emergency management operations. The method proposes the calculation of an Operational Resilience Index (ORI) at city building/block scale. The ORI tool is developed based on a previous innovative research line, which was allowing computing flood resilience index for mid-term urban planning, adapted here to specificities of emergency management operations. The adaptations in the method for ORI tool, allows to use the existing concept of specific resilience, where the anthropized system is characterized in categories of urban functions and urban services. Dependencies between urban functions and services according to the impact of a given hazard is directly parameterized through a web-based GUI. The adapted new method takes into consideration for the ORI computation: multi-hazard, integration of critical infrastructures as well as social events occurrences in the adjustment parameters of the ORI computation. The requirements for the tool uses are: (i) a training of the end-user and (ii) a specific formatting for the input data. The ORI tool has been implemented and tested by end-users in the framework of a H2020 Research and Innovation project-ANYWHERE-in webservice based Pan-European multi hazard platforms DSS. Tests performed presented here, are those related to flood hazard initiated by Mediterranean intense rainfall events, which were performed on the 182 km 2 Biguglia catchment in Corsica island

Research paper thumbnail of Grey, green, and blue infrastructure embedded within existing water grid in urban area in France

Proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress

Research paper thumbnail of Urban Scale Uncertainty for Runoff Generation. Case study Nice, France

Journées de l'hydraulique, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of From Catastrophe to Resilience

How do we cope with catastrophe events using existing models? Are we going a step forward and foc... more How do we cope with catastrophe events using existing models? Are we going a step forward and focus on<br> sustainable solutions taking into account a more holistic approach and resilience concept? Natural disasters are<br> characterized by different patterns in recent years. Urban communities have developed assets too vulnerable to<br> disasters and now they are about to have high damage. There is a need for a new framework that takes into<br> consideration models, crisis management, new holistic concepts along with social components. The concept of<br> resilience to natural disasters, preferably resilience to floods will be the main subject of this paper.

Research paper thumbnail of Report and synthesis on pilot implementation (FRI)

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluation of the application of the methodical framework - Flood Resilience Index (FRI)

Research paper thumbnail of General synthesis with general framework for risk assessment

Research paper thumbnail of From Catastrophe to Resilience

How do we cope with catastrophe events using existing models? Are we going a step forward and foc... more How do we cope with catastrophe events using existing models? Are we going a step forward and focus on<br> sustainable solutions taking into account a more holistic approach and resilience concept? Natural disasters are<br> characterized by different patterns in recent years. Urban communities have developed assets too vulnerable to<br> disasters and now they are about to have high damage. There is a need for a new framework that takes into<br> consideration models, crisis management, new holistic concepts along with social components. The concept of<br> resilience to natural disasters, preferably resilience to floods will be the main subject of this paper.

Research paper thumbnail of Report and synthesis on pilot implementation (FRI)

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluation of the application of the methodical framework - Flood Resilience Index (FRI)

Research paper thumbnail of Xynthia Flood, Learning from the Past Events—Introducing a FRI to Stakeholders

Advances in Hydroinformatics, 2018

Extreme flood events in recent years create a need to better understand the risks. Local communit... more Extreme flood events in recent years create a need to better understand the risks. Local communities are vulnerable to extreme flooding and more often they are looking on how to learn from past events. This provides them a way to be more prepared and to reduce flood damage. The FP7 PEARL R&D project (http://www.pearl-fp7.eu/about-pearl/) case study Châtelaillon-Plage, located at the Atlantic coast of France, is a very good example of how local community could increase flood resilience and be more prepared for the future coastal submersion events. For the case study, an analysis of extreme storm surge event Xynthia (occurred on February 27–28, 2010) is performed in order to define a generic, new index characterizing a resilience to flood. Here, the Flood Resilience Index (FRI) is employed as a new communication tool with local stakeholders. The tool enables mapping of evaluated flood resilience for each building in the case study area. In this way, the existing flood maps are overlapped with evaluated resilience in different dimensions of urban system. The simulation scenarios take into account the protection structures constructed as a part of the Plan of Measures implemented after the event. For this purpose, the new flood maps are created and new FRI are evaluated. In this paper, the authors will present the importance of analysis of past events, the usability of FRI in the stakeholder communication and compare flood resilience of case study before and after new structural measures. The research focuses also on examination of present flood management strategies and their effectiveness in decreasing flood damage and evaluation of flood resilience.

Research paper thumbnail of General synthesis with general framework for risk assessment

Research paper thumbnail of Xynthia Flood, Learning from the Past Events—Introducing a FRI to Stakeholders

Advances in Hydroinformatics, 2018

Extreme flood events in recent years create a need to better understand the risks. Local communit... more Extreme flood events in recent years create a need to better understand the risks. Local communities are vulnerable to extreme flooding and more often they are looking on how to learn from past events. This provides them a way to be more prepared and to reduce flood damage. The FP7 PEARL R&D project (http://www.pearl-fp7.eu/about-pearl/) case study Châtelaillon-Plage, located at the Atlantic coast of France, is a very good example of how local community could increase flood resilience and be more prepared for the future coastal submersion events. For the case study, an analysis of extreme storm surge event Xynthia (occurred on February 27–28, 2010) is performed in order to define a generic, new index characterizing a resilience to flood. Here, the Flood Resilience Index (FRI) is employed as a new communication tool with local stakeholders. The tool enables mapping of evaluated flood resilience for each building in the case study area. In this way, the existing flood maps are overlapped with evaluated resilience in different dimensions of urban system. The simulation scenarios take into account the protection structures constructed as a part of the Plan of Measures implemented after the event. For this purpose, the new flood maps are created and new FRI are evaluated. In this paper, the authors will present the importance of analysis of past events, the usability of FRI in the stakeholder communication and compare flood resilience of case study before and after new structural measures. The research focuses also on examination of present flood management strategies and their effectiveness in decreasing flood damage and evaluation of flood resilience.

Research paper thumbnail of Food Resilience Index – Methodology and Implementation

In recent years the number of people affected by flooding processes increases up to the point whe... more In recent years the number of people affected by flooding processes increases up to the point where the organizational structure of urban communities threatens to experience the significant direct and indirect damages. The vulnerability to flooding processes due to sophisticated assets is high and the assessment of flood resilience becomes the main direction to follow within integrated flood risk management. This paper takes a first step in bringing resilience in integrated flood risk management through a framework that is employing five dimensions in order to evaluate the level of disturbance and ability to preserve and function during and after the flooding on one side and connected with the flood risk management cycle on the other side. The method recognizes different scales and functions within the urban system. The application is done on city of Nice taking into account existing flooding processes, economic, social and institutional characteristics.

Research paper thumbnail of Vulnerabilite et Risque Lors Des Crues Extremes : La Crue Du Rhone De 2003 Dans Le Secteur Arles – Tarascon

Research paper thumbnail of Approach developed within functional analysis regarding flooding processes in urban areas

&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;The paper deals with the concept of modelling complex urban systems in ... more &amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;The paper deals with the concept of modelling complex urban systems in order to achieve a higher level of flood resilience and their sustainability assessed using a systems approach. It also contributes in bringing resilience into practice based on groundbreaking methodology developed under functional analysis approach. Research is done with CORFU project (www.corfu7.eu) that is developed under the 7th Framework Program. There are nine case studies within the project. Chosen cities in Europe and Asia have history of urban flooding, differences in existing flood management measures and approaches. Existing urban flood risk management recognizes that flooding processes cannot be stopped from occurring. Therefore the management of the flooding consequences should be beyond than existing structural solutions. The multidisciplinary approach where measures are incorporated along with social, environmental, economic, stakeholders and decision maker’s participation is provided within the resilience concept. The benefits of this concept are significant in overall damage caused by flood, social and economic recovery after flood, etc. Methodology characterized by efficiency in implementation is developed under the approach of functional analysis. This approach starts with definition of objective and higher level functions of the system. The approach uses perceptive logic to foster a high level or objective function into secondary and lower level functions that are displayed in a logic diagram called a Functional Analysis System Technique (FAST) model. &amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;

Research paper thumbnail of Ubiquitous Computing for Flood Warning and Forecasting Systems: UbiFLOOD

Research paper thumbnail of Opportunities and Challenges of Natural-Based Solutions in Urban Areas—French Case Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Urban Scale Uncertainty for Runoff Generation. Case study Nice, France

Journées de l'hydraulique, 2014

The runoff in urban areas is related with high uncertainty due to small spatial soil variability’... more The runoff in urban areas is related with high uncertainty due to small spatial soil variability’s (soil properties), temporal variability’s (variations in rainfall intensity) and topographical variability’s. The paper focuses on different topography used in runoff generation. The obtained results present runoff generation in the case study area using different digital terrain models. The results show significantly different flood depth with respect to used digital elevation models that include buildings and transportation network and the models that do not include buildings. Simplification of high resolution of LiDAR Digital Surface Model (DSM) is done by re-sampling original 2x2m grid to larger size. The flow model is developed using MIKE21. The analysed urban area is represented by urban geometry created in ArcGis 10 and MIKE21. Chosen case study area is located in south east area of France. This Mediterranean city is characterized with high precipitation episodes that present a risk to the build environment and population. Within CORFU FP7 project these characteristics are analyzed and presented in order to analyze the flood risk, improve the existing flood risk management and rise up flood resilience.Batica Jelena, Gourbesville Philippe. Urban Scale Uncertainty for Runoff Generation. Case study Nice, France. In: SimHydro 2014. New Trends in Simulation. 11-13 June 2014 Ecole Polytech’ Nice (France) 2014

Research paper thumbnail of The development of socio-economic scenarios for urban flood risk management

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 23, 2013

HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re... more HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.

Research paper thumbnail of Operational Resilience Index Computation Tool as a Decision Support System Integrated in Eu Risks Management Platforms—Test on Biguglia Catchment, a Mediterranean Intense Precipitations Regime Prone Area

Springer water, 2020

A Decision Support tool, relying on resilience assessment approach has been developed to reinforc... more A Decision Support tool, relying on resilience assessment approach has been developed to reinforce decision makers for climate related emergency management operations. The method proposes the calculation of an Operational Resilience Index (ORI) at city building/block scale. The ORI tool is developed based on a previous innovative research line, which was allowing computing flood resilience index for mid-term urban planning, adapted here to specificities of emergency management operations. The adaptations in the method for ORI tool, allows to use the existing concept of specific resilience, where the anthropized system is characterized in categories of urban functions and urban services. Dependencies between urban functions and services according to the impact of a given hazard is directly parameterized through a web-based GUI. The adapted new method takes into consideration for the ORI computation: multi-hazard, integration of critical infrastructures as well as social events occurrences in the adjustment parameters of the ORI computation. The requirements for the tool uses are: (i) a training of the end-user and (ii) a specific formatting for the input data. The ORI tool has been implemented and tested by end-users in the framework of a H2020 Research and Innovation project-ANYWHERE-in webservice based Pan-European multi hazard platforms DSS. Tests performed presented here, are those related to flood hazard initiated by Mediterranean intense rainfall events, which were performed on the 182 km 2 Biguglia catchment in Corsica island

Research paper thumbnail of Grey, green, and blue infrastructure embedded within existing water grid in urban area in France

Proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress

Research paper thumbnail of Urban Scale Uncertainty for Runoff Generation. Case study Nice, France

Journées de l'hydraulique, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of From Catastrophe to Resilience

How do we cope with catastrophe events using existing models? Are we going a step forward and foc... more How do we cope with catastrophe events using existing models? Are we going a step forward and focus on<br> sustainable solutions taking into account a more holistic approach and resilience concept? Natural disasters are<br> characterized by different patterns in recent years. Urban communities have developed assets too vulnerable to<br> disasters and now they are about to have high damage. There is a need for a new framework that takes into<br> consideration models, crisis management, new holistic concepts along with social components. The concept of<br> resilience to natural disasters, preferably resilience to floods will be the main subject of this paper.

Research paper thumbnail of Report and synthesis on pilot implementation (FRI)

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluation of the application of the methodical framework - Flood Resilience Index (FRI)

Research paper thumbnail of General synthesis with general framework for risk assessment

Research paper thumbnail of From Catastrophe to Resilience

How do we cope with catastrophe events using existing models? Are we going a step forward and foc... more How do we cope with catastrophe events using existing models? Are we going a step forward and focus on<br> sustainable solutions taking into account a more holistic approach and resilience concept? Natural disasters are<br> characterized by different patterns in recent years. Urban communities have developed assets too vulnerable to<br> disasters and now they are about to have high damage. There is a need for a new framework that takes into<br> consideration models, crisis management, new holistic concepts along with social components. The concept of<br> resilience to natural disasters, preferably resilience to floods will be the main subject of this paper.

Research paper thumbnail of Report and synthesis on pilot implementation (FRI)

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluation of the application of the methodical framework - Flood Resilience Index (FRI)

Research paper thumbnail of Xynthia Flood, Learning from the Past Events—Introducing a FRI to Stakeholders

Advances in Hydroinformatics, 2018

Extreme flood events in recent years create a need to better understand the risks. Local communit... more Extreme flood events in recent years create a need to better understand the risks. Local communities are vulnerable to extreme flooding and more often they are looking on how to learn from past events. This provides them a way to be more prepared and to reduce flood damage. The FP7 PEARL R&D project (http://www.pearl-fp7.eu/about-pearl/) case study Châtelaillon-Plage, located at the Atlantic coast of France, is a very good example of how local community could increase flood resilience and be more prepared for the future coastal submersion events. For the case study, an analysis of extreme storm surge event Xynthia (occurred on February 27–28, 2010) is performed in order to define a generic, new index characterizing a resilience to flood. Here, the Flood Resilience Index (FRI) is employed as a new communication tool with local stakeholders. The tool enables mapping of evaluated flood resilience for each building in the case study area. In this way, the existing flood maps are overlapped with evaluated resilience in different dimensions of urban system. The simulation scenarios take into account the protection structures constructed as a part of the Plan of Measures implemented after the event. For this purpose, the new flood maps are created and new FRI are evaluated. In this paper, the authors will present the importance of analysis of past events, the usability of FRI in the stakeholder communication and compare flood resilience of case study before and after new structural measures. The research focuses also on examination of present flood management strategies and their effectiveness in decreasing flood damage and evaluation of flood resilience.

Research paper thumbnail of General synthesis with general framework for risk assessment

Research paper thumbnail of Xynthia Flood, Learning from the Past Events—Introducing a FRI to Stakeholders

Advances in Hydroinformatics, 2018

Extreme flood events in recent years create a need to better understand the risks. Local communit... more Extreme flood events in recent years create a need to better understand the risks. Local communities are vulnerable to extreme flooding and more often they are looking on how to learn from past events. This provides them a way to be more prepared and to reduce flood damage. The FP7 PEARL R&D project (http://www.pearl-fp7.eu/about-pearl/) case study Châtelaillon-Plage, located at the Atlantic coast of France, is a very good example of how local community could increase flood resilience and be more prepared for the future coastal submersion events. For the case study, an analysis of extreme storm surge event Xynthia (occurred on February 27–28, 2010) is performed in order to define a generic, new index characterizing a resilience to flood. Here, the Flood Resilience Index (FRI) is employed as a new communication tool with local stakeholders. The tool enables mapping of evaluated flood resilience for each building in the case study area. In this way, the existing flood maps are overlapped with evaluated resilience in different dimensions of urban system. The simulation scenarios take into account the protection structures constructed as a part of the Plan of Measures implemented after the event. For this purpose, the new flood maps are created and new FRI are evaluated. In this paper, the authors will present the importance of analysis of past events, the usability of FRI in the stakeholder communication and compare flood resilience of case study before and after new structural measures. The research focuses also on examination of present flood management strategies and their effectiveness in decreasing flood damage and evaluation of flood resilience.

Research paper thumbnail of Food Resilience Index – Methodology and Implementation

In recent years the number of people affected by flooding processes increases up to the point whe... more In recent years the number of people affected by flooding processes increases up to the point where the organizational structure of urban communities threatens to experience the significant direct and indirect damages. The vulnerability to flooding processes due to sophisticated assets is high and the assessment of flood resilience becomes the main direction to follow within integrated flood risk management. This paper takes a first step in bringing resilience in integrated flood risk management through a framework that is employing five dimensions in order to evaluate the level of disturbance and ability to preserve and function during and after the flooding on one side and connected with the flood risk management cycle on the other side. The method recognizes different scales and functions within the urban system. The application is done on city of Nice taking into account existing flooding processes, economic, social and institutional characteristics.

Research paper thumbnail of Vulnerabilite et Risque Lors Des Crues Extremes : La Crue Du Rhone De 2003 Dans Le Secteur Arles – Tarascon

Research paper thumbnail of Approach developed within functional analysis regarding flooding processes in urban areas

&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;The paper deals with the concept of modelling complex urban systems in ... more &amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;The paper deals with the concept of modelling complex urban systems in order to achieve a higher level of flood resilience and their sustainability assessed using a systems approach. It also contributes in bringing resilience into practice based on groundbreaking methodology developed under functional analysis approach. Research is done with CORFU project (www.corfu7.eu) that is developed under the 7th Framework Program. There are nine case studies within the project. Chosen cities in Europe and Asia have history of urban flooding, differences in existing flood management measures and approaches. Existing urban flood risk management recognizes that flooding processes cannot be stopped from occurring. Therefore the management of the flooding consequences should be beyond than existing structural solutions. The multidisciplinary approach where measures are incorporated along with social, environmental, economic, stakeholders and decision maker’s participation is provided within the resilience concept. The benefits of this concept are significant in overall damage caused by flood, social and economic recovery after flood, etc. Methodology characterized by efficiency in implementation is developed under the approach of functional analysis. This approach starts with definition of objective and higher level functions of the system. The approach uses perceptive logic to foster a high level or objective function into secondary and lower level functions that are displayed in a logic diagram called a Functional Analysis System Technique (FAST) model. &amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;

Research paper thumbnail of Ubiquitous Computing for Flood Warning and Forecasting Systems: UbiFLOOD