BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES produced this dataset for reporting under the European Flood Directive (2007/60/EC). It lists municipalities used to calculate the number of inhabitants and jobs at risk in flood scenarios for the Aquitaine region, specifically Périgueux. The dataset was last updated on March 29, 2019, and is used to produce flood hazard and risk maps.
Use Cases
- Calculate population exposure to flood hazards based on municipal boundaries.
- Assess economic impact by estimating jobs at risk in flood scenarios.
- Generate quantitative evidence for territorial vulnerability assessments across high, medium, and low probability flood levels.
- Support the homogenization and objectification of flood exposure knowledge for regulatory reporting.
Strengths
- Produced by a geological and mining research bureau (BRGM) for regulatory compliance.
- Explicitly linked to the European Flood Directive (2007/60/EC) and French national law (LENE).
- Designed to produce flood surface maps and flood risk maps on an appropriate scale.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2019-03-29; freshness should be verified.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Collection Method
- Produced for reporting purposes under the European Flood Directive.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00
- Geography
- Aquitaine region, France (Périgueux area)