This article addresses user-related issues in flood-sustainable spatial planning. It presents the concept and methodological development of a user-centred module, one of three modules of a model for an integral system of flood-sustainable planning. By introducing daily routine analysis of a selected user profile, backgrounded by behaviour mapping, it addresses small but important data in the context of what is usually big-data analysis of flood modelling in order to bring the dynamics of everyday life into flood-sustainable planning. This user-centred module was developed and tested in the Planina Karst Field, a typical overflow karst field that is frequently flooded. It is a novel approach to addressing people’s lives and their interactions with space that opens new perspectives on flood-related issues and can act as an alternative or complement to spatial-planning measures and processes.
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Along the reach in proximity to the eastern border of the Planina Polje, the Unica River loses water through several outflow zones into distinct ponors and into a set of small openings and fracture zones. To estimate the outflow rate along these zones, the Unica discharge was measured upstream and downstream to the outflow zone. Seven velocity profiles were recorded with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and the corresponding discharges were calculated.
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This work aims to identify the factors controlling karst polje flooding and evaluates their impact on the flood amplitude and duration. A list of parameters potentially controlling flooding is established. The relevance of each parameter is tested by using two idealized numerical settings. First results show the usefulness of simple numerical settings to identify the effect of each parameter on the flood amplitude and duration. The findings are combined to simulate a flood of medium intensity and long duration that occurred on a typical polje.
The idea of integration as a multidimensional concept in research and planning is not new. Integrated assessments and modelling are known as analytical approaches in research as well as concepts of scenario building in planning processes, especially when facing the impacts and causes of environmental problems, including floods or high waters situations Besides, in the last decades several concepts, such as sustainable development, ecosystem approach and ecosystem services and lately nature based solutions concept were introduced to spatial planning and territorial development disciplines to infiltrate integral concepts into planning processes, policy making, or governance. This reflects the fact that there is a wide consensus on the need for integration; however, there is less agreement on what integration really means and how it can be effectively introduced into modelling processes. The paper focusses on the approach in which, in support to spatial planning (urban planning module), it builds upon the modelling concepts which follow the interrelations among natural dynamics and their characteristics (hydrogeological module) and human dwelling in space (user-centred module). It comments on practical values of empirically gained data, gathered within the hydrological and user-centred module, considering the basic legislation related to spatial planning and water issues.
The paper addresses the possibilities of implementation of content and typology-wise diverse data into integral flood-related spatial planning. It builds on an ascertainment, that understanding, considering and implementing of human scale such as temporal and physical dimensions of activities people are involved with in open space, are considerable components of dynamic systems in (flood sustainable) spatial planning. Based on development of hydrogeological and user-centred modules, two of the components of the model for integral flood sustainable spatial planning, shows the possibilities of simultaneously addressing the dynamics of changes in natural systems and systems formed by man. It shows, that application of hydrogeological module can help to assess which natural elements influence the flood, where and for how long; whereas user-centred module based on profiles daily routine can help to assess where, how long and how often certain user activity takes place and may help to assess if any of the performed activities can additionally influence the flood.