**5.1 The current situation**

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Scanner and the HIS-SSM (Klijn et al., 2007) and studies of Hoes (2007) and Vanneuville et al. (2006). This occurs because only a small amount of inundation is sufficient to harm the crops. The damage curve for airports also shows a very steep curve at the beginning, which is due to a lot of indirect damage (e.g. cancelling of flights) that will happen if there is water on the runways. Damage to the urban and other build up areas are relatively similar. A final comment is warranted on the damage curve for 'Commerce', which starts relatively flat and then rises relatively steeply above 3 meters of inundation. Limited information and large heterogeneity makes it difficult to determine the exact damage curve for commerce

**Damage functions**


In this section, the outcome of the model will be described using the land use map and different inundation maps for 'Noord-Beveland'. To compare the different types of flood risk in a consistent way, we will compare them in two different ways. One of the comparisons is the 'existing situation', which describes the most plausible inundation scenarios given the characteristics of the regional water system and primary defenses. For

1 - Urban - high density 2 - Urban - medium density 3 - Urban - Rural 4 - Commerce 5 - Seaport 6 - Airport 7 - Infrastructure 8 - Building

9 - holiday accomodation 10 - Green Houses 11 - Agriculture

Fig. 2. Damage curves per land use type

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**5. Results** 
