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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
2024-11-24 21:14 |
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2013 Meeting
Section: Atmosphere and Earth Science; Environment Protection
Title:
Flood Hazard and Risk Mapping – harmonized methodology for the Danube Basin – Danube Floodrisk Results
Authors:
Mary-Jeanne Adler
Affiliation:
National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Bucharest, Romania
E-mail
mj.adler@hidro.ro
Keywords:
hazard and flood mapping, uncertainty, Flood Directive, territorial planning for sustainable development, Danube Strategy
Abstract:
The trend of the development of natural catastrophes and especially of flood events was (unfortunately) again confirmed to an unexpected extent in the last years 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in Romania, as well as in the upper part of the Danube Basin. Flash floods in upper Siret, Somes, Prut and central area of Transilvania, rainfall records in Banat area, catastrophic inundations in the catchments of the Danube and its tributaries and many other floods showed what high risks have to be considered today and in the future. The catastrophic flood events 2006 in the Danube Basin in particular reveal the vulnerability of our society against extreme natural events. However, the question of occurrence of an event is closely related with the question of the risk, i.e. the consequences (damages) resulting from this event. With the increase of population and industrialization, the settling areas and land use activities spread in floodplain areas seeming protected or hardly affected. Economic values behind dykes and flood protection structures accumulate more and more, hence they increase significantly the damage potential of extreme flood events. It is a matter of all Danube countries involved to counter this development of flood risks. We propose a three years EC Interreg Project for the Danube Flood Risk delineation, which may contribute with knowledge to understand the processes and for estimating uncertainties of flooding events. The Danube Floodrisk Project is an important contribution to the implementation of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDF) and Danube Strategy and the EU water policy.
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