Publication detail

Dams and floods in the Czech Republic

ŘÍHA, J.

Original Title

Dams and floods in the Czech Republic

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Several extreme floods have occurred over the last ten years in Central Europe. Two of them, namely those that occurred in 1997 and 2002 originated in the Czech Republic. The material losses due to bothevents reached a total of 4,5 bilion EUR, and 77 lives were lost in the Czech Republic.Several other local floods have occurred in recent years, namely those in 1998,2000,2002 and finally in 2005, which together caused losses of several milion Euros, and 16 casualties in total.

Keywords

Dams and floods in the Czech Republic

Authors

ŘÍHA, J.

RIV year

2006

Released

18. 7. 2006

Publisher

Balkema

Location

Barcelona, Španělsko

ISBN

0-415-40423-1

Book

Dams and Reservoirs, Societies and Environment in the 21st Century

Edition number

1

Pages from

193

Pages to

198

Pages count

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT25227,
  author="Jaromír {Říha}",
  title="Dams and floods in the Czech Republic",
  booktitle="Dams and Reservoirs, Societies and Environment in the 21st Century",
  year="2006",
  number="1",
  pages="193--198",
  publisher="Balkema",
  address="Barcelona, Španělsko",
  isbn="0-415-40423-1"
}