European Directive 2007/60/EC requires flood risk management plans to reduce impacts on health, environment, and economic activity. This dataset contains issues related to Water Framework Directive protected areas, produced for reporting under the Flood Directive by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières. The data was last updated on March 29, 2019.
Use Cases
- Mapping flood exposure issues based on the dataset's stated purpose for homogenizing knowledge.
- Developing flood risk management plans (WRMs) based on the objective to contribute to their creation.
- Reporting on protected areas under the Water Framework Directive based on the dataset's description.
Strengths
- Created for a specific regulatory purpose under European Directive 2007/60/EC and French national law.
- Produced by a geological and mining research bureau (BRGM), suggesting an authoritative source.
- Designed to produce maps at an appropriate scale for flood risk management.
Limitations
- Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00; 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
- Collection Method
- Produced for reporting purposes for the European Flood Directive.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00
- Geography
- New-Aquitaine region, Basque Coast