The flash flood driven land use changes: Case studies from the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The demonstrated examples of the land use responses to flash floods well describe the situation in the Czech Republic. There run otherwise (and less intensively) land use changes in municipalities and their surroundings in upper catchment positions at the spring courses of rivers. So there are only minor corrections in the land utilising, usually by transferring arable land into permanent crops. The built-up area was affected with the land use changes only indirectly, by locating new buildings outside the flash flood affected area. Downstream municipalities have often done a very radical "clearing" of the belt along the watercourse to facilitate an incident-free passage of big water in case of a repeat of the flash flood. Both outflow barriers (trees, low bridges) and potentially endangered dwellings have been removed, thus facilitating the passage of big water by modifying the flow channel. |