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Configuring a case study allows you to define the necessary conditions to evaluate how Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) can reduce flood risks and impacts in a watershed. You can define the available budget and select the interventions you wish to prioritize.

Watershed

See how an example watershed is configured.

Case Studies

Explore the sections that make up the case study.

Case Study

You must configure the parameters related to the characteristics of the territory, the damage curves associated with each land use to represent the potential costs generated by flood events, and estimate the economic benefits derived from avoiding damages thanks to the implementation of NbS.

Give a name to your case study  

On the first screen of case study creation, you assign a name and select the watershed to be studied.

Indicate whether you want to include the benefits associated with the carbon market   

In this section, the system shows whether the case study should consider the benefits generated by NbS associated with carbon.

This is an optional section.

Indicate the portfolio objectives

Here you can see the environmental objectives selected by the user.  

Remember that this is limited to the possibilities offered by the RiOS model.

Assign the project budget per year

Here you can see the program costs assigned (for each year) for project implementation. The Platform Costs include personnel, equipment, travel, vehicles, among others; and the Transaction Costs refer to administrative expenses or as a percentage of the program cost.

On this same screen you can also see the nominal, minimum, and maximum discount rates used for the ROI analysis.

Select the NbS 

On this page, the NbS selected by the user are displayed.    

The system provides default NbS, but you can create your own considering the possible transformations allowed by RiOS.

Review or adjust the model parameters

Review and adjust the soil parameters and damage curves according to the economic and physical characteristics of your watershed.

The curves represent the relationship between water depth and expected damages for each type of land use, including percentages associated with commercial and industrial areas.

Define the analysis parameters 

Define the time horizon of the analysis, the implementation period, and the climate scenario of interest; this will allow simulating how the benefits of NbS evolve over time and under different future conditions.

Additionally, adjust the storm duration, since this parameter influences the intensity of the modeled event and the capacity of the selected solutions to mitigate flood impacts.


Reports

As a result of execution, the system will provide a series of reports such as those shown at https://dev.water-proof.org/fastflood/reports/471. There, the system will display the Return on Investment result as the first indicator to assess how recommendable your project is.  

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