Flood risk in the Upper Vistula Basin. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Markus Stoffel, Tadeusz Niedźwiedź, Bartłomiej Wyżga, editors.
• Other Names: Kundzewicz, Zbigniew; Stoffel, Markus; Niedźwiedź, Tadeusz; Wyżga, Bartłomiej
• Contents: 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 DriversAbstract; 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 River4.2 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.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.48/9; 550; Earth sciences; Floods -- Risk assessment -- Poland -- Vistula River Valley; Flood control -- Poland -- Vistula River Valley; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Flood control; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Hydrology; Nature -- Natural Disasters; Science -- Environmental Science; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Hydrology & the hydrosphere; Natural disasters; Geology & the lithosphere; Environmental management; The environment; Physical geography; Hydraulic engineering; Geology; GeologyxMathematics; Science -- Geophysics; Geophysics; Poland -- Vistula River Valley; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319419237; 3319419234
• Related ISBNs: 9783319419220; 3319419226
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