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

Danish Coastal Authority (DCA) is to lead the project activities and had to adjust the DAPP approach to the municipality needs. They developed the DAPP maps and related explanatory documents together with the municipality. After the project, their role will be to provide guidance on how municipalities can adjust/improve their flood risk management plans according to the EU directive.
Municipalities: participated and gave input for the development of the DAPP maps. After FRAMES, they want to use the maps to apply for funding to implement the urban development measures plans and to define the work with the contractors.
Harbor: participated in the meetings and gave input on their vision for the area. They are interested in keeping alive the activities and the economy of the harbor.

Main activities

Note that the implementation process is the same as in Vejle - the steps were already defined and tested during that pilot, so the difficulties encountered there could be avoided in this pilot.

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.

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.
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.
Combine visions with measures: combine the visions with the possible measures and remove some measures that we are not going to work with
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
MCA
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.