INCA - Flood Control - ES Demand - 2006-2012

Sara Vallecillo

Description

This dataset is an output of KIP INCA.

All ecosystems but in particular forests, shrubland, grasslands and wetlands reduce runoff by retaining water in the soil and aquifers and slowing down the water flow. This prevents the rapid downstream runoff of surface water, hereby lowering peak runoff, and thus reduces the detrimental effects to citizens, farmland, and infrastructure from flooding. The accounting approach developed here presents the potential of ecosystems to regulate water flows together with the socio-economic demand for protection against river floods.

This dataset presents the demand for flood control as an ecosystem service. This demand for flood control is defined as the area of economic assets located in flood plains. More specifically, demand accounts for the total spatial extent of economic assets that could be potentially affected by a 1 in 500 year flood, independently of whether they are protected by defense measures or natural capital.

The dataset expresses the total demand for flood control in ha and as a percentage of the catchment.

Contact

Email: joachim.maes (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

Sara Vallecillo

0000-0002-5105-6253

How to cite

Vallecillo, Sara (2019): INCA - Flood Control - ES Demand - 2006-2012. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/a7767428-1fd3-497d-b5af-4d91e26d5fd4

Keywords

ecosystem services flood protection flood control

Data access

Download Flood Control Demand 2006 2012

Use conditions: European Commission reuse notice
Access conditions: No limitations

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Shapefile "Demand_allyears.shp": units are ha of demand (from the boolean input layers of demand) Columns: HydroID > unique ID to use as common field; AreaSqKm > catchment size; Max_06/Max_12 > maximum demand in ha for 2006 and 2012 (in a return period of 500 years); shmax_06/shmax12 > share of the maximum demand within each catchment for 2006 and 2012;

Publications

Publication

Ecosystem services accounting - Part II Pilot accounts for crop and timber provision, global climate regulation and flood control

Vallecillo Rodriguez, S., La Notte, A., Kakoulaki, G., Kamberaj, J., Robert, N., Dottori, F., Feyen, L., Rega, C. and Maes, J., Ecosystem services accounting - Part II Pilot accounts for crop and timber provision, global climate regulation and flood control, EUR 29731 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2019, ISBN 978-92-76-02905-2 (online), doi:10.2760/631588 (online), JRC116334.

DOI

10.2760/631588

Spatial coverage

GML

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GEO

POLYGON((-11.5 81.4,43.2 81.4,43.2 35.3,-11.5 35.3,-11.5 81.4))

GEO

{"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[-11.5,81.4],[43.2,81.4],[43.2,35.3],[-11.5,35.3],[-11.5,81.4]]]}

Temporal coverage

From date	To date
2006-01-01	2012-01-01

Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date: 2021-04-23
Modified date: 2021-03-26
Issued date: 2019-08-27
Landing page: http://biodiversity.europa.eu/maes
Language(s): English
Data theme(s): Economy and finance, Environment
Update frequency: unknown
Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/89h/a7767428-1fd3-497d-b5af-4d91e26d5fd4
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