A decision making tool to manage storm damage in Wallonia

摘要

In order to efficiently manage post-storm damages, a software was developed to be used as adecision support system by the public authorities in order to take the best decisions as soon aspossible after a storm event. This tool provides an overview of the present situation and com-pares the efficiency of several prospective simulations. The model was built on the basis of pre-vious storm events in Europe and its parameters were defined after a comprehensive literaturereview. The System Dynamics theory was used to simulate the complex scheme of post-stormmanagement operations (inventory, sale, harvesting, transport, storage and transformation). Theoperator can modify thirty parameters to simulate the crisis situation.