Providing evidence-based, intelligent support for flood resilient planning and policy: The PEARL knowledge base

This paper presents the Preparing for Extreme and Rare Events in Coastal Regions (PEARL) intelligent knowledge-base (PEARL KB) of resilience strategies as an environment that allows end-users to navigate from their observed problem to a selection of possible options and interventions worth considering, regarding flood risk management.

As it is stated in this publication, the PEAL KB is capable of supporting authorities and other stakeholders of coastal regions in their aim to adapt and mitigate the impacts of hazards and risks resulting from extreme hydro-meteorological events. The PEARL KB guides the users from the identification of vulnerabilities in their region to the targeted selection of suitable measures that would improve the resilience of the urban area while showing cases in which the selected measures have been successfully applied and linking to related knowledge evidence.

Water, Volume 8, Issue 9, September 2016. This document is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.