The village of Chľaba is located in the southwest Slovakia, bordered with the fork of Danube River and Ipeľ River and in the southeast foothill of Burda Mts. This creates a specific rural environment of a Slovak–Hungarian border area. Ministry of Environment of the Slovak republic did not...

A flood risk model was developed for the Czech Republic to calculate the probability of insured losses from flood events. The model was GIS based, making use of a 100 m horizontal resolution DTM and a network of the major rivers in the country. A review of historical flooding was undertaken to...

The paper is the introduction to the special issue Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment which presents a set of the most innovative contributions at the EWRA Symposium, held in Catania, Italy on 2011. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Flood susceptibility mapping using geomorphologic approaches is effective for delineating flood extent and various degrees of potential flood-affected areas. This approach is useful where the channel system and floodplain morphology change dynamically and in regions where detailed digital...

Midstream of the Keelung River Basin in Northern Taiwan has become highly urbanized and densely populated area. Flood inundation along riversides frequently occurred during typhoons or rainstorms. Three protection measures, including constructions of high-level protection levees, a diversion...

An appropriate real-time hydrometeorological observational network is designed and established for developing a full-scale hazard mitigation modelling system in respect of floods covering 24 river systems and cyclones covering nine coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, east coast of India with an...

Large national budgets are required for flood damage reduction projects, making it critical to ensure that public money used therein be spent efficiently. Accordingly, reliable assessment of flood damage is a critical issue in analysis of the economic aspects of flood damage reduction projects....

Failure modes for earth dams are extensively reviewed and analysed using a three-pronged approach including a literature review, physical observations of a representative earth dam site and finite element structural analysis of the dam wall. Several failure scenarios are used for predicting...