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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : Flood risk in the Upper Vistula basin [Texte électronique] / Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz... [et al.], editors
Publication : [Cham] : Springer, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée : illustrations en partie en couleur, fichiers PDF
Collection : GeoPlanet. Earth and planetary sciences, ISSN 2190-5207
Lien à la collection : GeoPlanet, earth and planetary sciences (Internet)
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : XIII-418 p.
Sujet(s) : Inondations -- Évaluation du risque -- Vistule, Bassin de la (Pologne)
Inondations -- Maîtrise -- Vistule, Bassin de la (Pologne)
Changements climatiques -- Tatras (monts)
Indice(s) Dewey :
551.489 094 (23e éd.) = Inondations (hydrologie) - Europe
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319419237. - ISBN 3319419234 (eBook). - ISBN 9783319419220. - ISBN 3319419226
(rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453502279
Notice n° :
FRBNF45350227
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword; Series Editors; Managing Editor; Advisory Board; Contents; Contributors;
Setting the Stage; 1 The Upper Vistula Basin-A Geographical Overview; Abstract; 1
Location in Europe; 2 Geographical Diversity of the Upper Vistula Basin; 3 Tradition
and Culture; 4 Population and Economy-Land Use and Functional Variety; 5 Hydrological
Significance of the Upper Vistula Basin in the Hydrology of Poland; 6 Final Remarks;
References; 2 Floods in Mountain Basins; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Physiographic
and Meteorological Conditions of Flood Occurrence in the Swiss Alps
3 Physiographic and Meteorological Conditions of Flood Occurrence in the Polish Carpathians4
Recent Advances in Flood Research in the Polish Carpathians; Acknowledgments; References;
3 Anatomy of Flood Risk; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Flood Risk and Its Components;
2.1 Flood Hazard; 2.2 Exposure to Floods; 2.3 Vulnerability to Floods; 3 Changes in
Flood Risk; 3.1 Changes in Hazard; 3.2 Changes in Exposure; 3.3 Changes in Vulnerability;
4 Managing and Reducing Flood Risk; 5 Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References;
Factors Influencing Flood Risk (80)
4 Flood Generation Mechanisms and Changes in Principal Drivers; Abstract; 1 Introduction;
2 Climate Track in Flood Generation; 3 Flood-Generating Mechanisms-An Overview; 4
Flood Generating Mechanisms in the Upper Vistula Basin; 5 Changes in Terrestrial Drivers
of Floods; 5.1 Factors Regulating Flood Runoff; 5.1.1 Reforestation of Catchments;
5.1.2 Construction of Dam Reservoirs; 5.2 Factors Accelerating Flood Runoff; 5.2.1
Construction of Flood Embankments and Channel Regulation; 5.2.2 Channel Incision;
5.2.3 Loss of Channel Storage in the Impounded Reach of the Upper Vistula River
5.3 Expansion of Riparian Forests Increasing Large Wood Recruitment to River Channels6
Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; 5 Methods to Assess Large Wood Dynamics
and the Associated Flood Hazard in Polish Carpathian Watercourses of Different Size;
Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Field Setting; 3 Investigations of Large Wood Dynamics
in Kamienica Stream; 3.1 Monitoring of the Recruitment and Transport of Large Wood
in a Mountain Stream; 3.2 Wood Inventory in Kamienica Stream; 4 Investigations of
Large Wood Dynamics in the Czarny Dunajec River
4.1 Wood Inventories in a Wide Mountain River; 4.2 Observations of the Vegetative
Regeneration of Living Wood; 4.3 Tracking Experiment with Radio Transmitter-Tagged
Logs; 4.4 Numerical Modelling of Large Wood Dynamics in Contrasting River Morphologies;
5 Discussion and Conclusions; 5.1 Suitability of the Used Methods for Examination
of Large Wood Dynamics in the Watercourses; 5.2 Large Wood Dynamics in the Mountain
Stream and the Mountain River; 5.3 Implication of Large Wood Dynamics in the Mountain
Watercourses of Different Size to Flood Hazard; Acknowledgments; References
