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MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS APPLIED TO A FLOOD EVENT ON RIVER MARITZA/EVROS
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Floods are river basin wide phenomena and they often create common problems with locally varying intensity. The flood disaster management is highly dependent on early information and needs forecasts and data from the river basin as a whole. The starting point for flood risk management planning is the assessment of flood risks, based on the information about the river basin and floods in the past. The next step is developing strategies for reaction when flooding events are prognosticated, and evaluation of these strategies. One of the objectives of the EVROS2010 project was to develop a framework based on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) that could be used for exploiting the preferences of decision-makers in choosing the most appropriate strategy for reaction when dangerous flooding events happen. The EVROS2010 project has been approved by the European Commission, DG Environment Civil Protection Unit project (2009 – 2010) and it is the first European Dimension Field Test Simulation Exercise awarded to Greece with participation of Bulgarian partners from the Ministry of Interior and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The main objective of project EVROS2010 is to simulate the planning and response to a flooding event for the river EVROS that originates in Bulgaria and flows through Greece and Turkey. The decision support system for multicriteria analysis МКА-2, developed at the Institute of Information Technologies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, is used in the paper for multicriteria analysis and decision making for saving and rescuing activities when dangerous flooding events are prognosticated.
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