1 Introduction
1.1 The French Natural Disaster Compensation Scheme
1.2 The Importance of Prevention Knowledge and Assessment
2 Conceptual and Methodological Framework
2.1 The Central Role of Risk Coping Capacity Within Vulnerability Assessment
2.2 The Collective Dimension of Risk Coping Capacity
2.3 Existing Strategies Towards Prevention
2.4 Collecting Information About Collective Risk Coping Capacity
3 Rating PAPIs: Material and Method
3.1 Construction of a PAPI Action Database
Axis in PAPI | Corresponding strategy | Category of action | Code of action |
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Axis 1 | Risk knowledge | Improve knowledge without intended action afterwards | Risk study |
Hazard study | |||
Built environment study | |||
Hazard evolution study | |||
– | Flood risk basin diagnosis to determine a future PAPI implementable actions | ||
Risk awareness | Outreach projects to population | Flood marks | |
New information technologies | |||
Information letters | |||
Events (exhibitions, conferences, and so on) | |||
Information boards | |||
Risk education | |||
Municipal information documents on major risks | |||
Awareness campaign with targeted audience | Schools | ||
Socioeconomic activities | |||
Urban planners | |||
Public authorities | |||
Regulatory communication to mayors | |||
Farmers, foresters | |||
Axes 4 and 5 | Adaptation | – | Building acquisition and relocation |
Land use planning | Global land use planning strategy | ||
Targeted land use planning strategy (target may be one type of building or a neighborhood) | |||
Storm water management in municipal sewerage systems | |||
General plan (municipal or inter-municipal land use planning) | |||
Risk prevention plan update | |||
Risk prevention plan establishment | |||
Built environment mitigation | Housing mitigation | ||
Firm mitigation | |||
Public building mitigation | |||
Network mitigation | |||
Farm building mitigation | |||
Axes 6 and 7 | Resistance | Hydraulic infrastructure building | Dyke building |
Dyke consolidation | |||
Dyke consolidation including an increase in the height of dyke | |||
Upstream retention hydraulic infrastructure building | |||
Upstream retention hydraulic infrastructure consolidation | |||
Water course recalibration | |||
Downstream retention hydraulic infrastructure building | |||
Hydraulic infrastructure management | Dyke maintenance | ||
Dyke functioning improvement | |||
Retention hydraulic infrastructure functioning improvement | |||
Land acquisition | |||
Property legal analysis | |||
Floodplain management | Water course cleaning | ||
Agro-environmental measures (hedges for example) | |||
Riverbank consolidation | |||
Action to prevent coastal erosion | |||
Stream and river restoration | |||
Axis 2 | Anticipation | Monitoring | Watercourse monitoring by state services |
Watercourse monitoring at the local level | |||
Modeling | Forecasting modeling | ||
Axis 3 | Reaction | Warning | Warning system |
Municipal tools | Local response plan | ||
Coordinating local response plan | |||
Crisis management exercise | |||
Municipal civil security reserve | |||
Other safety plans | |||
Improvement or update of local response plan | |||
Other tools | Business continuity plan | ||
Flooding Départemental Referent | |||
Site-specific safety measures plan | |||
Family safety measures plan | |||
Feedback after flooding | |||
Axis 7 | Knowledge | Study | Risk assessment study related to hydraulic infrastructure |
All axes | Knowledge | – | Detailed design of action: a study prior to an action coded in this table. Twenty-five identified codesa
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