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Review Article: Economic evaluation of flood damage to agriculture – review and analysis of existing methods |
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P. Brémond, F. Grelot, A.-L. Agenais |
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Englisch
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1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 13, no. 10 ; Nr. 13, no. 10 (2013-10-09), S.2493-2512 |
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250085529
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-13-2493-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
In Europe, economic evaluation of flood management projects is increasingly
used to help decision making. At the same time, the management of flood risk
is shifting towards new concepts such as giving more room to water by
restoring floodplains. Agricultural areas are particularly targeted by
projects following those concepts since they are frequently located in
floodplain areas and since the potential damage to such areas is expected to
be lower than to cities or industries for example. Additional or avoided
damage to agriculture may have a major influence on decisions concerning
these projects and the economic evaluation of flood damage to agriculture is
thus an issue that needs to be tackled.
The question of flood damage to agriculture can be addressed in different
ways. This paper reviews and analyzes existing studies which have developed
or used damage functions for agriculture in the framework of an economic
appraisal of flood management projects. A conceptual framework of damage
categories is proposed for the agricultural sector. The damage categories
were used to structure the review. Then, a total of 42 studies are described,
with a detailed review of 26 of them, based on the following criteria: types
of damage considered, the influential flood parameters chosen, and monetized
damage indicators used.
The main recommendations resulting from this review are that even if existing
methods have already focused on damage to crops, still some improvement is
needed for crop damage functions. There is also a need to develop damage
functions for other agricultural damage categories, including farm buildings
and their contents. Finally, to cover all possible agricultural damage, and
in particular loss of activity, a farm scale approach needs to be used. |
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