Bilateral Mobility Project
Reference: BMP-AIT-UNS-01
Home partner: Contact at home institution:
Asian Institute of Technology Dr. Mukand S Babel & Dr. Sutat Weesakul
Email: msbabel@ait.asia and sutat@ait.asia
Host partner: Contact at host institution:
University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis Prof. Philippe Gourbesville
Email: gourbesv@unice.fr
Area: Level/Duration:
07.4, 11.3 ICT and Water Sciences Doctorate: 34 month
Title:
Flood resilience in Asian megacities: concepts and strategies for Bangkok
Description:
Urban flooding is a key issue for the Asian megacities. With the urban growth and the reach of unkn
challenges which have been never anticipated in other regions of the world. In order to address
related to resilience have to be developed, investigated and validated by cities. The city of Bang
expertise in the field of flood warning especially with a real time data collection system and wit
population exposes to the phenomena.
The next step request now to work on the residence concept and to see how to adapt this effective a
The preliminary approach will be to determine the interactions between economic and urban growth,
which will serve as the basis for the development of a DPSIR (drivers-pressures-state-impact-respon
be completed in conjunction with IPCC-based projections (or RCM-based projections if available) o
social development, aiming at identifying the future policy areas where the responses to the drive
The second step will assess and enhance methodologies and tools for off-line and real-time flood h
modeling. Missing elements in existing models for system analysis will be developed in order to iden
of urban flood models at different scales, having in mind the envisaged technological advances – wid
line rain gauges, increase in computer speed and possibilities for coupling of runoff-sewer-river
ultimate objective is to develop generic tools for urban flood mitigation plans and test real time urb
time data assimilation and including uncertainty estimates. A final phase will assess and enhance ex
related to planning and prevention for the minimization of flood risk, management during flood e
emergency protocols and crisis management and measures to be taken after a flood event, incl
measures and the procedures that allow learning from experience. This approach guarantees com
management cycle. The ultimate goal will be to formulate good practices and good standards th
duplicated internationally.
The project will strongly develop the cooperation between the AIT and UNS teams and will also benef
international research projects under various framework like FP7 and Stic Asie.
Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia (EMMA)