Strengthening Flood Management Through US-Dutch Cooperation: Learning from a Large Scale Flood Exercise in the Netherlands - Part II: Findings
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2009
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Disaster Research Center
Abstract
In the light of increasing cooperation between the United States (US) and the Netherlands, particularly between knowledge institutes, the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Water Management in the Netherlands requested COT Institute for Safety, Security, and Crisis Management (COT), to initiate research with a number of US disaster research institutes. COT took this challenge and developed the research project Learning from a large scale flood exercise in the Netherlands. The primary objective of this research project is to enhance knowledge in the Netherlands of strategies to effectively deal with (possible) floods by exchanging knowledge regarding key processes, best practices, and complexities of flood disaster management and identify areas, within this field, that necessitate additional research.
Against this background representatives from two US institutions, Disaster Research Center (DRC) at University of Delaware and the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at George Washington University, provided a US perspective. The objective of the exploratory project was to develop background knowledge for, participate as observers in, and derive lessons learned from the
Dutch flood-exercise week “Waterproef”, organized by the Flood Management Taskforce (TMO, Taskforce Management Overstromingen) in November 2008.
In this report we present the findings of the project.
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Simulations, Floods-General, Mitigation