Dr Christophe Viavattene

Research Fellow

Department: Health and Social Sciences

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Research Interests

Christophe’s research is mainly focussed on water resources management through an interdisciplinary perspective. With skills covering a wide range of fields (Ecology, Geography, Modelling, Environmental Economics), he is particularly interested in integrating social, economic and environmental aspects in natural resource management and in the development of decision support tools for stakeholder needs.

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Biography

With a background in Geography and Ecology, Christophe is working at the interface of economic and physical sciences.

Christophe leads research into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at FHRC, and is currently undertaking the mapping component of the EU RiskMap project. Christophe is also supervising a PhD in developing a GIS based add-on tool for urban flood hazard mapping representing the vulnerability of social groups at local scale (Flood Risk Management Research Consortium Phase 2). Christophe was also involved in the mapping of risk to life for the European FLOODsite project.

Christophe is working closely with the Urban Pollution Research Centre in two European projects (SWITCH and SCOREPP). Christophe’s role in the SWITCH project is to develop a Decision Support System based on GIS interfaces (SUDSLOC) and to couple it with a storm water model and a 2 dimensional flood model. The DSS aims to demonstrate best management practices in storm water management and will be applied to a UK case study (Birmingham – Eastside). In SCOREPP he was in charge of the development of a database to support the visualisation of Priority Pollutant treatment options and he led the economic analysis of treatment options.

Recently his role has grown to include economical aspects in Flood Risk Management. He is currently involved in the update of the FHRC Multi-Coloured Manual and is also working on the European ConHaz project (review of hazard cost assessment methods and end-user needs). Christophe has also contributed to a project assessing the costs of the summer 2007 floods. In FRMRC he assessed the uncertainties in the economic appraisal of non structural strategies.

Tools currently under development/developed:

  • A GIS based DSS for the identification of appropriate BMPs (SWITCH)
  • A RiskToLife Model for GIS application (FLOODsite)
  • WLCC_UI tool and a GIS based add-on tool for emergency services (FRMRC2)

Selected Publications:

Viavattene, C., Ellis, J. B., Revitt, D. M., Sieker, H. and Peters, C. (2010). The application of a GIS-based SUDS selection tool for the evaluation of hydrologic performance and storm flow reduction. Accepted for the Proceedings of NovaTech 2010, 7th International Conference on Sustainable Techniques and Strategies in Urban Water Management, 27 June – 1 July 2010, Lyon, France.

Penning-Rowsell E., Viavattene C.,Pardoe J., Chatterton J.,Parker D. and Joe Morris (2010). The benefits of flood and coastal risk management: a handbook of assessment techniques -2010.

Edmund Penning-Rowsell, David Cotterell, Owen Tarrant, Christophe Viavattene, Joanna Pardoe, John Chatterton (2010). The changing nature of flood damage. Flood and Coastal Risk Management Conference.

Chatterton J., Viavattene C., Morris J., Penning-Rowsell E. Tapsell S. (2010). The costs of the summer 2007 floods in England. Science report Project SC070039/R1.

Viavattene C., Faulkner H. (2009). An uncertainty index to measure the feasibility of whole life cycle costing approach in flood risk management. Cost Action C22 "Road Map Towards a Flood Resilient Urban Environment" Paris 26/27.11.2009

Chen A.S., Viavattene C., Faulkner H., Blanksby J., Djordjevic S., Saul A.J., Savic D.A. (2009). Urban flood risk communication using modelling results. Cost Action C22 "Road Map Towards a Flood Resilient Urban Environment" Paris 26/27.11.2009

Viavattene C., Revitt M., Scholes L., Donner E., Cerk M., Erikson E., Seriki K. (2009). Development of a database to support the assessment of potential source control and treatment options for priority pollutants. SETAC 2009 conference – Plateform, Goteborg, 31st may – 4th June 2009.

Barraque B., Viavattene C. (2009). Eau des Villes et Eau des champs : Vers des accords coopératifs entre services publics et agriculteurs ? Economie rurale n°310.

Tapsell, S.M., Priest, S.J., Wilson, T., Viavattene, C. and Penning-Rowsell, E.C (2008). A new model to estimate risk to life for European flood events. FloodRisk 2008 conference, Oxford, 30th September to 3rd October 2008.

Viavattene C., Scholes L., Revitt D.M., Ellis J.B. (2008). A GIS based decision support system for the implementation of Stormwater Best Management Practices. 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage – Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 9p.

Priest, S.J., Wilson, T., Tapsell, S., Penning-Rowsell, E., Viavattene, C. & Fernandez-Bilbao, A. (2007). Building a model to estimate Risk to Life for European flood events. Milestone report T10-07-10 for the Integrated Project FLOOD-site. Enfield: Flood Hazard Research Centre

Viavattene C., Monget J-M., Ledoux E., Barraque B. (2006). Cost-benefit analysis of the impact of future nitrogen diffused pollution scenarios on the groundwater resources of the Seine River Basin. International Association of Hydrogeologist -SP Series.

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