Floods on opposite German borders
| Autor: | Robert Geipel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Environmental Hazards. 1:77-79 |
| ISSN: | 1878-0059 1747-7891 |
| DOI: | 10.3763/ehaz.1999.0111 |
| Popis: | The Rhine and the Oder rivers have many similarities. Both are subject to comparable hydroclimate regimes, are flood prone, are international waterways and have been extensively modified by humans over many hundreds of years. Yet the recent history of flooding on the German sections of these rivers is distinctively different. Most communities along the Rhine seem to take floods in stride whereas along the Oder they have been highly disruptive. The disruption has provided a mechanism for helping to integrate disparate parts of the newly reunified German states emergency management system and has highlighted continuing differences between Polish and German flood experiences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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