methodology of project on flood 2019
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Flood events, the frequency of which has shown an increasing tendency over the past
decades and consequences of which have made up 31 % of economic losses, have a very
special place in the area of natural catastrophes. And for these reasons solutions to the
question of flood protection are acquiring a wider international dimension and are
increasing pressure on the realization of the system-wide working of complex measures.
The transition from protection from flooding to complex flood management is reflected
most of all in directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risk. The
guideline strengthened the converging of national approaches to flood management and
control and likewise brought parallel development in the area of the assessment of flood
risks and management of flood risk of member states of the European Union.
Before the proposal of the methodology itself, a search of the literature for available
documents relating to flood risk, risk analysis, legal arrangement of flood risk management
and likewise of existing and developing approaches for assessing flood risk in Slovakia and
around the world was developed. The contribution of the work is the proposal of a
methodology for preliminary assessment of flood risk from flash floods, which can be used
when accomplishing the goals of directive 2007/60/EC, i.e. reducing the probability of
floods and reducing their potentially adverse consequences.
The aim of the work was expanding the set of scientific knowledge in the field of
assessment and management of flood risk in Slovakia and the world, and a proposal for
directing the management of flood risks with the goal of reducing the adverse effects on
human health, the environment and economic activities connected with floods. A goal so
conceived had a primary task, namely ‘‘Proposal of a methodology for the process of
preliminary assessment of flood risk—a methodological procedure for preliminary flood
risk assessment from flash floods with respect to the need for its updating following from
directive 2007/60/EC and its application in the conditions of a modelled territory’’