Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Extremes in Central Europe: A Case Study in Rural Area in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su70912758" target="_blank" >10.3390/su70912758</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Extremes in Central Europe: A Case Study in Rural Area in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The primary objective of this paper is to analyse households? adaptation measures to the impacts of repeated extreme weather events, specifically floods, which belong amongst the most serious manifestation of ongoing climate change in Europe. The case study focuses on a rural area in the north-east part of the Czech Republic, in the catchment basin of the Bečva River. A total of 605 households were addressed within the framework of the questionnaire survey. On the basis of the conducted research, we determined that the total amount of adaptation measures adopted by those dwelling in residential homes within the investigated catchment area was relatively low. In contrast, however, one of the most important adaptation measures?house elevation?was appliedby 46.94% of the houses (up to 1 m) and by 21.16% houses (elevated more than 1 m) respectively. We also found that the amount and scope of adaptation measures realized by households were influenced by certain socio-demographic factors of

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

12758-12786

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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