A comparison of building value models for flood risk analysis

Röthlisberger, Veronika; Zischg, Andreas P.; Keiler, Margreth

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2431-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2431-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2431-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 9

Research article

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14 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 14 Sep 2018

A comparison of building value models for flood risk analysis

Veronika Röthlisberger, Andreas P. Zischg, and Margreth Keiler

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RC1: 'Review of nhess-2017-442', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Jan 2018
- AC1: 'nhess-2017-442, authors' response to reviewer #1', Veronika Röthlisberger, 20 Mar 2018
RC2: 'Review “On the role of building value models for flood risk analysis”', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'nhess-2017-442, authors' response to reviewer #2', Veronika Röthlisberger, 20 Mar 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (30 Mar 2018) by Thomas Glade

AR by Veronika Röthlisberger on behalf of the Authors (08 May 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Jul 2018) by Thomas Glade

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Jul 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (01 Aug 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Aug 2018) by Thomas Glade

AR by Veronika Röthlisberger on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (21 Aug 2018) by Thomas Glade

Short summary

We investigate the role of building value estimation schemes within flood exposure analyses on regional to national scales. Our results for Switzerland suggest that models based on individual buildings produce more reliable results than models based on surface area, but only if they consider the buildings' volume. Simple models tend to underestimate the exposure, which results in suboptimal allocation of resources for protection measures in decision making processes based on cost efficiency.