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Zusatztext The book provides challenging data for an audience whose interest is in controlling water and perhaps! especially! for those involved with the "Building - Working - Engineering with Nature" movements.The stated aim of the book is to make as much national information as possible available to a broad! international readership so that comparisons! syntheses and knowledge exchange can lead to a better understanding of what future flood risks may be and how we can best prepare for them.Terra et Aqua! Number 128! September 2012! p30 Informationen zum Autor Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz is an authority on floods and climate change, works closely with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change), is a member of the Advisory Board on the Environment of the European Union Seventh Framework Programme, and is the co-editor of Hydrological Sciences Journal . He is a Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Professor of Earth Sciences and Head of the Department of Climate and Water Resources at the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, PAS, Poznan, Poland, and an associate of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany. Zusammenfassung This book delivers a wealth of information on changes in flood risk in Europe! and considers causes for change. The temporal coverage is mostly focused on post-1900 events! reflecting the typical availability of data! but some information on earlier flood events is also included. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction/Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz -- 1.1 Preliminaries -- 1.2 Structure of the Book -- 1.3 Flood Risk Change -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- I FACETS OF CHANGE -- 2 Changes in Flood Risk - Setting the Stage/Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Erich J. Plate, Harvey J. E. Rodda,John C. Rodda, Hans Joachim Scheilnhuber & Witold G. Strupczewski -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Flood Risk -- 2.3 Multi-causality -- 2.4 Recent Changes in Flood Risk -- 2.5 Adaptation - Flood Risk Reduction -- 2.6 Concluding Remarks -- 3 Catalogue of Large Floods in Europe in the 20th Century/Adam Choryñski, lwona Piñskwar, Wolfgang Kron, G. Robert Brakenridge & Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz -- 3.1 Introduction and Outline -- 3.2 Sources of Information -- 3.3 Known Errors and Uncertainties -- 3.4 The Flood Catalogue -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- 4 Large-scale Flooding in Europe, 1961-2005/Christel Prudhomme, Simon Parry, Marie Genevier, Jamie Hannaford & Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A Catalogue of European Regional High Flows, 1961-2005 -- 4.3 Flood Peaks and Preceding Circulation Types: Relationships in Europe -- 5 Changing Floods in Europe/lwona Piñskwar, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Pascal Peduzzi,G. Robert Brakenridge, Kerstin Stahl & Jamie Hannaford -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Observed Development of Climatic Drivers -- 5.3 Changes in River Discharge -- 5.4 Changes in Maximum Flow -- 5.5 Exposure to Floods -- 5.6 Changes in Flood Risk in Europe -- 5.7 Concluding Remarks -- 6 Changes in Intense Precipitation in Europe/Olga Zolina -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Data for Estimation of Intense Precipitation -- 6.3 Absolute Precipitation Extremes over Europe -- 6.4 Climate Tendencies in the Relative Precipitation Extremeness over Europe -- 6.5 Changes in Temporal Structure of European Precipitation -- 6.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 7 Historical Floods in Europe in the Past Millennium/Rudolf Brázdil, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Gerardo Benito, Gaston Demarée, Neil Macdonald & Lars A. Roald -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Beginnings of Instrumental Hydrological Measurements -- 7.3 Documentary Data about Floods -- 7.4 Historical Floods in Europe in the Past Millennium -- 7.5 Discussion -- 7.6 Conclusions -- II NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON FLOODS -- 8 Floods in Austria -- 8.1 Günter Blõschl, RalfMerz, Juraj Parajka, José Salinas & Alberto Viglione -- 8.2 Introduction -- 8.3 Flood Processes i...
