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HISTORICAL AND RECENT FLOODS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: CAUSES, SEASONALITY, TRENDS, IMPACTS
In the Czech Republic the most destructive natural disasters result from floods. Evidence for this was the flood of July 1997 in Moravia and Silesia which took 52 lives and caused damage in excess of 63 billions Kč (Czech Crowns). Similarly the flood in Bohemia in August 2002, took 19 lives and damage ran over 70 billions Kč. The flooding in eastern Bohemia in July 1998 (6 victims, damage 2 billions Kč) was lesser in scope. The occurrence of destructive floods following a long period of relative calm raises the question as to what extent these floods are the results of natural climatic variability or the consequence of anthropogenic conditioned global warming that could result in future increase in frequency and intensity of floods (Houghton et al. 2001, Beniston 2002, Milly et al. 2002, Christensen and Christensen 2003). In order to implement protective measure that would tend to minimise human and material losses it is necessary to establish a knowledge base that would be sufficiently comprehensive, and when necessary to combine the information from systematic (instrumental) hydrological observations with those documentary sources of the pre-instrumental period.
HISTORICAL AND RECENT FLOODS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: CAUSES, SEASONALITY, TRENDS, IMPACTS
In the Czech Republic the most destructive natural disasters result from floods. Evidence for this was the flood of July 1997 in Moravia and Silesia which took 52 lives and caused damage in excess of 63 billions Kč (Czech Crowns). Similarly the flood in Bohemia in August 2002, took 19 lives and damage ran over 70 billions Kč. The flooding in eastern Bohemia in July 1998 (6 victims, damage 2 billions Kč) was lesser in scope. The occurrence of destructive floods following a long period of relative calm raises the question as to what extent these floods are the results of natural climatic variability or the consequence of anthropogenic conditioned global warming that could result in future increase in frequency and intensity of floods (Houghton et al. 2001, Beniston 2002, Milly et al. 2002, Christensen and Christensen 2003). In order to implement protective measure that would tend to minimise human and material losses it is necessary to establish a knowledge base that would be sufficiently comprehensive, and when necessary to combine the information from systematic (instrumental) hydrological observations with those documentary sources of the pre-instrumental period.
HISTORICAL AND RECENT FLOODS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: CAUSES, SEASONALITY, TRENDS, IMPACTS
Schanze, Jochen (editor) / Zeman, Evzen (editor) / Marsalek, Jiri (editor) / BRÁSDIL, RUDOLF (author) / DOBROVOLNY, PETR (author) / KAKOS, VILIBALA (author) / KOTYZA, OLDRICK (author)
Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures ; Chapter: 20 ; 247-259
NATO Science Series ; 67
2006-01-01
13 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Czech Republic , Disastrous Flood , Historical Flood , Flood Risk Assessment , Synoptic Type Engineering , Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics , Business and Management, general , Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution , Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management , Monitoring/Environmental Analysis , Environmental Management , Earth and Environmental Science
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