Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin - Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W.; Stoffel, Markus; Niedźwiedź, Tadeusz; Wyżga, Bartłomiej; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Tatra Mountains and their northern foothills - a guided tour -- Floods in mountainous basins -- Flood risk in various spatial scales -- Flood generation mechanisms and changes in principal drivers -- Methods to assess large wood-related flood risk in Polish Carpathian watercourses of different size -- Results of the modelling of wood transport phenomena in the Czarny Dunajec -- Modelling hydraulic parameters of flood flows for a Polish Carpathian River subjected to variable human impacts -- Climatic track. Changes in temperature and precipitation -- Change in circulation patterns -- Changes in streamflow -- Deciphering information from tree data -- Floods in Upper Vistula Basin from palaeoperspective -- Projections in climate (temperature and precipitation) and river discharge -- Downscaling and bias correction for the region -- Flood risk management in the Upper Vistula Basin in perspective: traditional versus alternative measures -- Flood risk management and flood risk governance arrangements -- Human dimension of flood management in the Upper Vistula Basin.
Keywords: Geophysics; Hydrogeology; Natural disasters; Geology-Statistical methods; Environmental management; Climate change; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Hydrogeology; Natural Hazards; Quantitative Geology; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Climate Change Management and Policy