Mitigation of the Adverse Consequences of Floods for Human Life, Infrastructure, and the Environment

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000255" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000255</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000255" target="_blank" >10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000255</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mitigation of the Adverse Consequences of Floods for Human Life, Infrastructure, and the Environment

Original language description

Floods endanger the lives and health of the population, cultural heritage and the environment and cause damage to property while limiting economic activity. It is not possible to prevent all flooding, but the authors can determine the amount of flood damage and subsequently estimate the measure of flood risks. Determining the measure of flood risks is desirable particularly for the proposal of effective flood-protection measures. The transition from flood protection to complete flood management is implemented in the European Union under the requirements of Directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risk. The directive consolidated national approaches to flood management and control and likewise brought parallel development in the field of assessment and management of flood risk by member states of the European Union. The aim of the directive as well as of this paper is to mitigate the adverse consequences for human health, infrastructure, and the environment associated with floods. The goal of the paper is to develop a general methodology for effective flood-protection measures according to the objectives of flood risk management. The proposed methodology uses the risk analysis method. Results are presented separately for damage to property, which is expressed in monetary value; damage to the environment, which is expressed in categories of environmental degradation (marginal, minor, intermediate, major); and loss of human lives, which is expressed in terms of the number of potential losses for different return periods of discharge (Q(5), Q(10), Q(50), Q(100), Q(1000)). The calculation of flood risk facilitates the selection of effective flood-protection measures in the relevant area. (C) 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20102 - Construction engineering, Municipal and structural engineering

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Natural Hazards Review

ISSN

1527-6988

e-ISSN

1527-6996

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000418236400009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85020215827