Homogeneous areas describing types of economic activity on flood risk zones (IRRs) in Aquitaine, Bordeaux, produced for reporting under the European Flood Directive. The dataset was created by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated on March 29, 2019. It is used to produce maps of exposed issues at an appropriate scale to support flood risk management plans.
Use Cases
- Mapping economic exposure to marine submersion hazards based on the described homogeneous activity zones.
- Developing flood risk management plans (WRMs) based on homogenized and objectified knowledge of flood exposure.
- Reporting on flood risk to economic activity for the European Flood Directive based on the IRR framework.
- Analyzing the distribution of economic activity types within designated flood risk zones.
Strengths
- Created for a specific regulatory purpose (European Flood Directive 2007/60/EC), ensuring a defined scope.
- Produced by a geological and mining research bureau (BRGM), suggesting authoritative sourcing.
- Designed to homogenize and objectify knowledge of flood exposure for planning.
Limitations
- Last updated 2019-03-29; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Geography
- Aquitaine: Bordeaux