Floods and migration in the Czech Republic

0447580 - ÚGN 2016 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Stojanov, R. - Kelman, I. - Duží, Barbora
Floods and migration in the Czech Republic.
Forced Migration Review. -, 49 May 2015 (2015), s. 49-50. ISSN 1460-9819
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : migration * flood * household
Subject RIV: DJ - Water Pollution ; Quality
http://www.fmreview.org/climatechange-disasters/stojanov-kelman-duzi

Residents’ strategies are generally aimed at either protection from or adaptation to flooding. Large-scale migration from the floodplains of rivers has not been seriously considered, even in high-risk zones. The Czech Republic is of particular interest in the European context due to several recent flooding disasters which were national emergencies, including in 1997, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2013. Weather extremes and climate variability are not the sole causes of floods in Central Europe. Other causal factors include housing, industrial buildings, transport and other infrastructure, river engineering, and agriculture in flood-prone zones near riverbeds.
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