Implementation process

Point of departure of FRM strategies

Assens has been working on flood protection at the harbour areas. The main technologies involve flood walls, dikes, and sluice gate combined through multi-functional principles (Faragò, M., Rasmussen, E.S., Fryd., O., Rønde Nielsen, E., and Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K., 2018).

Desired score to reach per layer in this pilot:

Stakeholders involved

• Danish Coastal Authority (DCA)
• Representative from the harbor (semi-privately owned)
• Municipality of Assens:
  • Representative from city planning
  • Representative from climate adaptation and environmental department
  • Representative from urban infrastructure and road department

Role of key actors

All stakeholders familiarized themselves with the DAPP method and played a key role in adapting it to their specific situation.

Main activities

Step 1: adjust the DAPP method: Since the original Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways (DAPP) approach created by Deltares and TU Delft was relatively unknown in Denmark, the project members had to familiarize themselves with the method, and adapt it to the Danish situation and standards.  A framework was developed with six steps. Each step has to be taken with a municipality and the method will be adjusted, if necessary, based on the outcomes of that particular exercise.

Step 2: DAPP workshops with the municipality: All six steps developed in the previous step were taken during workshops with the municipality.

1. Map the area including risks and opportunities: understanding the area, the system, what to consider, what would be the barriers and what would be the opportunities. This system description creates a common understanding of the area. The area was divided into 7 smaller subareas based on the floods risks, floods experienced and the topography (terrain levels) – a DAPP was executed for all 7 areas. In the end, these 7 maps would have to be combined. The developers of this method will be contacted to help with the merge of the maps, because this has not been done before.
2. Brainstorm: measures, visions: brainstorming for measures but also thinking about what kind of visions do you have for your cities. This will bring to light whether or not visions clash; a massive wall for instance cannot be built because the ocean view and hence the connection with the ocean will be lost.
3. Combine visions with measures: combine the visions with the possible measures and remove some measures that we are not going to work with
4. Life time vs intervention  time: the life time vs intervention time of the measures and also looking at what would they give as risk reduction in the area and then we make the map
5. MCA
6. Action plan

Step 3: exchange results between municipalities: after all steps have been taken, both Danish municipalities in FRAMES, Vejle and Assens, will discuss the process and maps together. This will result in feedback and recommendations for future similar projects.

Step 4: dissemination: the results will be presented to the representatives of the Danish Flood Directive and whenever the DCA has to do risk management plans in other communities..

Referenties

• Transnational Monitor and Evaluation report FRAMES, FRAMES, FRAMES, 8 juni 2020.