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development. Achieving a healthy, sustainable environment first requires understandingthe drivers of environmental changes, assessing the state of the environment andidentifying people’s dependence on it and identifying the obstacles to amelioratingenvironmental degradation. This thesis attempts to develop the integrated assessmentmodel for sustainability indicators to be used as decision support system andcommunication tool to policy makers, managers and public for effective use andconservation of natural resources and as an essential to achieve the MDGs and PovertyEradication policies goals in the country. The following are the specific objectives of thestudy:- Analysis of the state of the environmental resources and livelihoodso Livelihood analysiso Water resourceso Forest resources- Development of environmental resource sustainability indicators- Analysis and selection of the sustainability indicators.A. S. HepelwaFRACWECO project - Flux-based Risk Assessment of theImpact of Contaminants on Water Resources and EcosytemsThis new 4-year project is funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)and is one of the research projects under the Science for a Sustainable Development (SSD)programme. The FRACWECO project aims to determine impacts and risks of contaminantson water resources and ecosystems by way of a flux-based approach. In the project thereis a partnership between different universities and research centres: the DepartementArGEnCo/Hydrogéologie et géologie de l’environnement, Université de Liège (Prof. A.Dassargues, Dr. S. Brouyère, M. Haberman, J. Batlle, D. Caterina) are coordinating theproject, other participating groups are Département des sciences et gestion del'environnement / Ecologie animale et écotoxicologie, Université de Liège (Prof. J.-P.Thomé, Dr. V. Debacker, S. Crevecoeur, D. Leroy), Vlaamse Instelling voor TechnologischOnderzoek (Dr. L. Diels, Dr. L. De Jonghe, S. Manshoven), BRGM (C. Herivaux), Departmentof Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Prof. F. Canters) and Depatment of Hydrologyand Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Prof. O. Batelaan, Juliette Dujardin).The objective of the task of the VUB is to describe the state, i.e. the dynamics of the‘water-soil-subsoil-sediment’ system and in particular to illustrate water budgeting andmodelling, with the aim to obtain an accurate evaluation of water and contaminant massbalanceand fluxes at catchment scale for further downscaling at the level of the- 50 -
contaminated site. This involves the use of remote sensing of land cover with respect tohigh-resolution surface water budgeting, in particular groundwater recharge modelling,run-off routing, and uncertainty assessment.J. Dujardin and O. BatelaanHydraulic modelling of the Tra Khuc - Song Ve - Tra Cauflood plain in Quang Ngai province, VietnamThe central region of Viet Nam is subjected to typhoons and tropical rain depressionseach year particularly during the seasonal monsoon from mid September to midDecember when over 70% of the total annual rainfall occurs. In Quang Ngai Province thereare three main rivers of concern, namely Tra Khuc, Song Ve, and Tra Cau. The regionaltopography features an extensive mountainous area in the west dropping rapidly to alow-lying, relatively narrow depositional coastal plain. Flooding often occurs whenwatercourses breakout out from their normal confines and spread out overland resultingin inundation of normally dry land. This flooding causes severe problems when affectingcommunity assets such as crops, roads and dwellings, causing lots of damages withresulting economic loss and, in more severe circumstances, injury and loss of life. Toinvestigate the hydraulics of the floodplains, a two-dimensional hydraulic model isdeveloped for the study area. The model is based on surveyed ground level data for thefloodplain areas and is developed to simulate the patterns of river breakout and overlandflooding so that the flood behaviour can be better understood and modelled formitigation and impact testing. The data of the December 1999 flood event is used forcalibration the model. Analysis of flooding is performed using the 2D modelling softwareMike 21. Surveyed floodplain topographic data is used to construct a DEM grid (50 m x 50m grid cell) of the floodplains, including special features having significant hydrauliceffects such as road and canal embankments, culverts and bridges. River geometry wassurveyed separately for inclusion in the DEM grid in addition to the general floodplaintopographic data. A Manning roughness coefficient grid was constructed using theavailable land use data. Several land use types were identified in the floodplain, as ricefields, aquaculture, urban areas, other cultivated areas, and forests. Each type of land usewas assigned an initial Mannings roughness coefficient in accordance with publishedguidelines and field observations. Features such as culverts, roads and water ways werealso assigned Manning roughness coefficients in accordance with published guidelines.Manning roughness was also adjusted as part of the calibration process. Future work willdeal with potential impacts of some development scenarios in the Tra Khuc floodplain.N. H. Phuong and F. De Smedt- 51 -
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