A table of issues related to protected areas under the Water Framework Directive, produced for reporting purposes for the European Flood Directive. The dataset was created by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated on October 24, 2018. It is used to produce maps of exposed issues at an appropriate scale to inform flood risk management plans.
Use Cases
- Mapping flood exposure of protected areas based on the WFD issues table.
- Informing flood risk management plan development as required by European Directive 2007/60/EC.
- Homogenizing knowledge of flood exposure for objective risk assessment as described in the context of French national law LENE.
Strengths
- Created by a geological and mining research bureau (BRGM), suggesting authoritative sourcing.
- Explicitly linked to European Directive 2007/60/EC and French national law LENE, providing a clear regulatory context.
- Designed for map production at an appropriate scale, indicating a practical application focus.
Limitations
- Last updated 2018-10-24 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Collection Method
- Produced for reporting purposes for the European Flood Directive.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2018-10-24 00:00:00
- Geography
- Aquitaine region, specifically Dax Sorting area.