Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA 2024_25
Subject FLOOD ANN COASTAL RISKS Code 01735022
Study programme
1735 - MASTER UNIVERSITARIO EN RIESGOS NATURALES
Descriptors Credit. Type Year Period
3 Compulsory First Second
Language
Prerequisites
Department GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA
Coordinador
FERRER JULIA, MONTSERRAT
 E-mail mferj@unileon.es
ecolh@unileon.es
rbgong@unileon.es
Lecturers
COLMENERO HIDALGO , ELENA
GONZÁLEZ GUTIÉRREZ , ROSA BLANCA
FERRER JULIA, MONTSERRAT
Web http://
General description English Friendly. This course develops concepts and teaches skills related to flood and coastal risk management. The contents incorporate items about flooding causes, flood types and characteristics, river morphology, hydrological models, coastal dynamics, flood event prediction, and measures to reduce and mitigate damage in order to create a resilient society. The practical exercises follow the classical phases of any flood study: historical, geomorphological, hydrological and hydraulic analysis. For this reason this part of the course focuses in the extraction of the most relevant information from cartographic data (p.e. geological and topographical maps, among others), as well as from interpretation of aerial photographs and satellite images. Furthermore, students will learn discharge river frequency analysis to establish return periods and different hydrological models
Tribunales de Revisión
Tribunal titular
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA GARCIA MELENDEZ , EDUARDO
Secretario GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA CORTIZO ALVAREZ , JOSE
Vocal GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA GOMEZ VILLAR , AMELIA
Tribunal suplente
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL CALVO GALVAN , LEONOR
Secretario BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL ANSOLA GONZALEZ , GEMMA
Vocal GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA FERNANDEZ MARTINEZ , ESPERANZA


Topic Sub-topic
Theory T1.- Introduction to flood risk: factors and flood types.
T2.- Geomorphological approach to flood hazard.
T3.- Historical approach to flood hazard.
T4.- Hydrological modelling.
T5.- Hydraulic modelling.
T6.- Flood vulnerability and mitigation measures.
T7.- Coastal areas: generalities; coastal dynamics.
T8.- Flood hazard and vulnerability: analysis of some mitigation measures.
Practical exercises P1.- Study of torrential rivers and alluvial fans with aerial photographies and ortoimages.
P2.- Statistical analaysis of river discharges and return period estimation.
P3.- Peak discharges according to the modified rational method.
P4.- Hydrograph analysis with Hec-HMS in laboratory and/or fieldwork.
P5.- Vulnerability analysis in a study area: recommended actions.

Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Class hours Hours outside the classroom Total hours
Laboratory practicals 14 24 38
 
 
Lecture 14 21 35
 
Mixed tests 2 0 2
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies   ::  
  Description
Laboratory practicals
Lecture

 
Description

  Description Qualification
Others Mixed tests - 55%
Assignments and/or exercise reports using information and communication technologies (ICTs) - 45%
 
Other comments and second call

Basic

DÍEZ-HERRERO, A.; LAÍN-HUERTA, L.;LLORENTE-ISIDRO, M.(2008). A handbook on flood hazard mapping methodologies. Publicaciones del Instituto Geológico y Minero De España Serie: Riesgos Geológicos/Geotecnia N.° 1. En:https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/273500

ALCOVERRO, J.; COROMINAS, J.; GÓMEZ, M. (1999). The Barranco de Arás flood of 7 August 1996 (Biescas, Central Pyrenees, Spain). Engineering geology, 51(4): 237-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0013-7952(98)00076-3.

LARIO, J.; BARDAJÍ, T. (coords.)(2016). Introducción a los riesgos geológicos. UNED, 313 pp. ISBN:978-84-362-7014-3

Complementary
Web resources

The Global Flood Awareness System GloFAS is the global flood service of the European Commission Copernicus Emergency Management Service ,an operational system monitoring and forecasting floods across the world

Reporting floods and flooding news since2008 all over the world. Floodlist was funded by Copernicus, the European system for Earth monitoring.

European project that studied the coastar erosion in all the Union shoreline. As a result, different documents were generated that inspired some European Directives. 

Web of the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España.

Main web os US Geologcial Sevice with large information about news related to geological hazards (earthquakes, floods, landslices, etc.) and recommendations about how to act when these type of events occur.