Infloodmed

Integral flood risk management in small Mediterranean catchments: monitoring and protocols development for building resilient territories.

The INFLOODMED project pretends to substantially advance our understanding of flood risk in small Mediterranean catchments under climate change impacts, implementing continuous adaptation solutions assessing current and future vulnerability in flood-prone areas. A hydrological, meteorological, and territorial long-term monitoring solution will be combined with numerical models at various scales in order to detect vulnerability thresholds by assessing sociohydrological feedbaks as an effective tool for proactive and smart Civil Protection action plans at local scale. The implementation of innovative, open-access and open-source technologies at the local level will be performed in collaboration with local/national stakeholders, to evaluate how nature-based solutions of the studied river catchments (mostly ephemeral rivers) for a better and continuous assessment of the flood risk. Research will be focused on the Central Mediterranean Region of Spain, i.e. Alicante, Murcia, and Balearic Islands; which clearly illustrates the transformation of the economy, society, and environment with an exponential urban expansion, intensive agriculture, and tourist settlements. The INFLOODMED take advantage of previous Spanish and European projects and the current INUNSAB Project designed to establish flood risk early-warning system in the Balearic Islands which explicitly include the on-time and continuous discharge monitoring at the headwater parts of small Mediterranean catchments with the most significant flood hazard. The project will combine ground-sense, field-based, openaccess territorial geodatabases and modelling techniques.