DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-4149-2015
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84944223753
论文题名: Reconstruction of flood events based on documentary data and transnational flood risk analysis of the Upper Rhine and its French and German tributaries since AD 1480
作者: Himmelsbach I ; , Glaser R ; , Schoenbein J ; , Riemann D ; , Martin B
刊名: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
ISSN: 10275606
出版年: 2015
卷: 19, 期: 10 起始页码: 4149
结束页码: 4164
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Flood control
; Risk analysis
; Risk assessment
; Risk management
; Evaluation scheme
; Flood protection
; Flood risk analysis
; Flood risk management
; Flood vulnerabilities
; Long term analysis
; Technological standards
; Temporal and spatial variation
; Floods
; documentary source
; environmental protection
; environmental risk
; extreme event
; flood
; flood control
; infrastructural development
; international comparison
; long-term change
; paleoflood
; reconstruction
; risk assessment
; spatiotemporal analysis
; vulnerability
; Alsace
; Baden-Baden
; Baden-Wurttemberg
; France
; Germany
; Rhine River
英文摘要: This paper presents the long-term analysis of flood occurrence along the southern part of the Upper Rhine River system and of 14 of its tributaries in France and Germany covering the period starting from 1480 BC. Special focus is given on the temporal and spatial variations of flood events and their underlying meteorological causes over time. Examples are presented of how long-term information about flood events and knowledge about the historical aspect of flood protection in a given area can help to improve the understanding of risk analysis and therefor transnational risk management. Within this context, special focus is given to flood vulnerability while comparing selected historical and modern extreme events, establishing a common evaluation scheme. The transnational aspect becomes especially evident analyzing the tributaries: on this scale, flood protection developed impressively different on the French and German sides. We argue that comparing high technological standards of flood protection, which were initiated by the dukes of Baden on the German side starting in the early 19th century, misled people to the common belief that the mechanical means of flood protection like dams and barrages can guarantee the security from floods and their impacts. This lead to widespread settlements and the establishment of infrastructure as well as modern industries in potentially unsafe areas until today. The legal status in Alsace on the French side of the Rhine did not allow for continuous flood protection measurements, leading to a constant-and probably at last annoying-reminder that the floodplains are a potentially unsafe place to be. From a modern perspective of flood risk management, this leads to a significant lower aggregation of value in the floodplains of the small rivers in Alsace compared to those on the Baden side-an interesting fact-especially if the modern European Flood directive is taken into account. © 2015 Author(s). Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/78409
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作者单位: Physical Geography, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; CRESAT, University of Haut-Alsace, Mulhouse, France
Recommended Citation:
Himmelsbach I,, Glaser R,, Schoenbein J,et al. Reconstruction of flood events based on documentary data and transnational flood risk analysis of the Upper Rhine and its French and German tributaries since AD 1480[J]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,2015-01-01,19(10)