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- Title
FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT IN CONNECTION WITH ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN SMOLYAN REGION, BULGARIA.
- Authors
Marinov, Ivan Ts.; Pavlova-Traykova, Eli
- Abstract
Changes in annual and seasonal precipitations, which are more often increasingly intensive, land-use changes and small rates of erosion control activities are the main reason for increased flood risk in many regions of Bulgaria. smolyan region is one of the most affected of floods and erosion processes. in the recent years houses and infrastructure have been flooded, people have been evacuated and significant material damages were inflicted. in only one of the floods in 2016 the material damage amounted about 7.7 million euro. all this shows the necessity of applying effective approaches to assess and analyze the existing flood risk in order to make the right decisions for activities to limit damages in case of future floods. in this study is applied method used to assess the flood risk and its relationship to ecosystem services developed under the tunesinurB project and the method is conducted only at urban territories. Flood risk assessment has been made for settlements with more than 2000 inhabitants in smolyan district and data for the distribution of area at flood risk is presented. the total risk assessment for the whole territory of these settlements and for the district is 'very bad' - more than 15% of the studied area is rated at risk. the territories at risk are 17% of total studied areas in the towns and from them 11.02% are in category 'very bad'.
- Subjects
FLOOD risk; ECOSYSTEM services; METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; SOIL conservation; LAND use &; the environment
- Publication
Forest Science (0861-007X), 2018, Vol 54, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0861-007X
- Publication type
Article