Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Overview of Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management....Pages 1-16
Improvement of Flood Protection in Czech Republic....Pages 17-24
1997/1998 Floods in the Czech Republic: Hydrological Evaluation....Pages 25-39
Regional Estimation of Design Flood Discharges for River Restoration in Mountainous Basis of Northern Slovakia....Pages 41-47
Flood Flow Regionalization Based on L-Moments and Its Use with the Index Flood Method....Pages 49-59
The First Use of HEC-5 in Flood Analysis in Turkey....Pages 61-65
The Great Flood of 1997 in Poland: The Truth and Myth....Pages 67-74
Achievements and Future Needs Towards Improved Flood Protection in the Oder River Basin: Results of the EU-Expert Meeting on the Oder Flood in Summer ‘97....Pages 75-83
The 1998 Extreme Flood on the Tisza River....Pages 85-94
Causes and Peculiarities of Recent Floods on the Dniester River....Pages 95-100
Modelling Tools — the Key Elements for Evaluation of Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on Flood Generation, With Reference to the 1997 Morava River Flooding....Pages 101-114
Postwar Changes in Land Use in Former West Germany and the Increased Number of Inland Floods....Pages 115-123
Anthropogenic Impacts on the Formation of Flash Floods and Measures for Their Compensation....Pages 125-133
1998 Flood Damages and Remedial Action....Pages 135-138
A Database of Historical Flood Events in the Netherlands....Pages 139-146
Flood Management in Poland....Pages 147-153
Twenty Years of Flood Risk Mapping Under the Canadian National Flood Damage Reduction Program....Pages 155-165
The Importance of Maps for Floodplain Management and Flood Insurance....Pages 167-173
Urban Watershed Flood Mitigation Planning and Floodplain Management....Pages 175-184
The National Flood Insurance Program: A U.S. Approach to Flood Loss Reduction....Pages 185-196
Flood Disasters - Insurance Aspects Including the 1997 Odra Floods....Pages 197-208
Recent Experience With the Use of Mathematical Models in Flood Action Planning and Flood Forecasting & Warning....Pages 209-218
Recent Trends in Hydrological Flood Warning Systems Development: The Czech Experience....Pages 219-227
Operative Control and Prediction of Floods in the River Odra Basin....Pages 229-236
Hydroinformatics for River Flood Management....Pages 237-250
Floodss a Flood Operational Decision Support System....Pages 251-260
Real-Time Flood Forecasting: Operational Experience and Recent Advances....Pages 261-270
Analytical Reproduction of Radar Images of Rainfall Spatial (2D) Distribution as an Input to GIS Based Flood Modelling....Pages 271-281
Lessons Learned from Recent Floods....Pages 283-292
Emergency Flood Control Operation During the 1997 Red River Flood....Pages 293-301
Investigations of the Effects of On-Site Stormwater Management Measures in Urban and Agricultural Areas on Floods....Pages 303-310
Geographical Information Systems Used as a Planning-Tool for On-Site Stormwater Management Measures....Pages 311-321
Selected Problems of Flood Protection of Towns....Pages 323-332
Urban Flood Control - Technical Support to the Diagnosis and Rehabilitation of Critical Areas in the City of Lisbon....Pages 333-342
Flood Mitigation in Urbanised Areas....Pages 343-349
Regional Impacts of Levee Construction and Channelization, Middle Mississippi River, USA....Pages 351-361
Risk of Flood Levee Overflowing....Pages 363-373
Emergency Flood Reservoirs in the Tisza Basin....Pages 375-384
Action Plan on Flood Defence and Control Strategies for Flood Retention on the Upper Rhine....Pages 385-393
Damage Caused by the 1997 Floods, Its Repair and Proposed Alternatives of Flood Control Measures....Pages 395-400
Flood Damages and Inundated Land Reclamation....Pages 401-404
Forecasting of River Discharges in the Presence of Chaos and Noise....Pages 405-419
Advances in Transfer Function Based Flood Forecasting....Pages 421-428
Back Matter....Pages 429-432