The project comprises four work packages which function as interlinked components within the multidisciplinary assessment framework:
The operational backbone of ValBGI is a work package that establishes a stakeholder group to work alongside the research team from start to end. This component assesses (and when necessary stimulates) the awareness of alternative natural processes-based BGI options among local and regional urban planners and other key stakeholders.
A second work package reviews existing flood models for Can Tho and the Vietnamese Mekong Delta and develops a new high-resolution modelling system to assess the effectiveness of selected BGI measures in reducing flood risk.
In the third work package, changes in the provision of ecosystem services following the installation of BGI measures will be assessed and mapped.
In the fourth work package costs and benefits of BGI measures (in terms of flood risk reductions and improvements of urban natural capital) are quantified by means of valuation, and cost-benefit analyses of BGI scenarios are conducted.
| Year | Deliverables | |
| 2018 | WP1: Diagnostic phase/Stakeholder workshop I and mapping | |
| 2019 | WP1: Creative phase/Stakeholder workshop II WP2: Review of hydrological models/Development of an integrated model WP3: Holistic Ecosystem Service Analysis WP4: Literature review and collation of BGI costs/Valuation of flood risk reductions | |
| 2020 | WP1: Stakeholder workshop III WP2: Scenario development WP3: Quantification of Ecosystem Service benefits/ Mapping of Ecosystem Service benefits WP4: Valuation survey preparation/ survey and data analysis | |
| 2021 | WP1: Challenge phase WP4: Cost-benefit analyses of scenarios |
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