Keywords
flood
regulation works
land degradation
natural hazard
reconstruction
How to Cite
Abstract
he paper discusses the natural and man-induced hazards in the Rast-Gighera sector of the Danube Floodplain, an area displaying asymmetric character, with the high and steep slopes of the Prebalcanic Tableland dominating the low Romanian floodplain. The subject regards an acute present problem, the necessity to impro-ve the management of dangerous phenomena included among the objectives for this millennium. Moreover, the paper regards a space with an exceptional natural heritage that has been seriously transformed by man, the natural-human opposition becoming the key-element of the region. The complexity of the subject is given by the plurality of causes that lead to the genesis of hazards. Their nature, frequency and intensity, along with other factors of psychological or economic nature imply different answers from the part of the affected population. In the past, the region was characterised by the significant presence of swampy areas, lakes and ponds connected to the Danube through secondary branches, being under the influence of the level oscillations of the river. The relief was strongly modified, especially during the last hundred years, the human factor exerting an important influence, mainly through flood-control dykes and dams, networks of irrigation and drainage channels, deforestation, so that extended surfaces that had been naturally covered by waters and forests were converted to agriculture.
References
Antipa Gr., 1910. Regiunea inundabilă a Dunării, starea ei actuală şi mijloacele de a o pune în valoare (The flood-prone Danubian region, its current status and means of valorising it), Carol Göhl Institute of Graphic Arts, Bucharest.
Bălteanu D. & Şerban M., 2005. Modificări globale ale mediului. O evaluare interdisciplinară a incertitudinilor (Global environmental changes. An interdisciplinary assessment of uncertainties), Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest.
Boengiu S., Ionuş O., Boengiu A. & Licurici M., 2008. Poluarea apei freatice şi potentialitătile patogene generate de inundatiile din 2006 în comuna Rast (Phreatic layer pollution and pathogenic potentialities induced by the 2006 flood in Rast settlement), Arhivele Olteniei, 22: 225-233.
Bogdan O. & Marinică I., 2007. Hazarde meteo-climatice din zona temperată. Geneză şi vulnerabilitate cu aplicatii la România (Meteorological and climatic hazards in the temperate zone. Genesis and vulnerability with applications for Romania), Lucian Blaga Publishing House, Sibiu.
Cutter S., Boruff B. J. & Shirley W. Lynn, 2003. Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards, Social Science Quarterly, 84(2): 242-261.
Diaconu D. C., 2007. Inundatiile din anul 2006 produse în Lunca Dunării (The 2006 floods occurred in the Danube Floodplain), Comunicări de Geografie, XI: 271-276.
Dumitraşcu M., 2006. Modificări ale peisajului în Câmpia Olteniei (Landscape changes within the Oltenian Plain), Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest.
Glade T., Malamud B., Roulston M. & Ferraris L. (eds.), 2004. Multidisciplinary approaches in natural hazards - Special Volume in Natural Hazard and Earth System Sciences 4(2).
Klijn F., Samuels P. & Van Os Ad, 2008. Towards flood risk management in the EU: State of affairs with examples from various European countries, International Journal of River Basin Management, 6(4): 307-321.
Licurici M., 2010. Assessment of the human impact on the landscape of the Danube Floodplain, in Drobeta-Turnu Severin - Bechet sector, Annales of the University of Craiova, Biology, Horticulture, Food produce processing technology, Environmental engineering Series, XV (XLXI): 323-330.
Licurici M., Curcan Gh. & Popescu L., 2008. Potentialul turistic al Luncii Dunării - Sectorul Oltean (The tourist potential of the Danube Floodplain on the Oltenian sector), Papers of the Annual Congress of the Romanian Society of Geography, Presa Universitară Clujeană Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca: 65-76.
Marinică I., 2006. Fenomene climatice de risc în Oltenia (Climatic phenomena of risk in Oltenia), Autograf MJM Publishing House, Craiova.
Pleniceanu V., 1999. Apele din Campia Olteniei (The water bodies within the Oltenian Plain), Universitaria Publishing House, Craiova.
Pleniceanu V., Tomescu V., Golea C., Marinescu I., Iordache C., Curcan Gh., Vlădut A., Popescu L., Boengiu S., Marinescu E., Ionus O. & Licurici M., 2006. The rehabilitation of the Danube Floodplain on Rast - Corabia sector, Annals of the University of Craiova, Geography Series, IX: 5-68.
Savin C., 2003. Râurile din Oltenia. Fenomene hidrografice de risc exceptional (The Oltenian rivers. Hydrographical phenomena of exceptional risk), Universitaria Publishing House, Craiova.
Shamsi Uzair M. U., 2008. GIS Applications in Floodplain Management, available at http://gis.esri.com/library/user-conf/proc02/pap0490/p0490.htm
Tapsell S. M., Penning-Rowsell E. C., Tunstall S. M. & Wilson T. L., 2002. Vulnerability to flooding: health and social dimensions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2002.1013, London, pp. 1511-1525.
Tomescu V., 1998. Lunca Dunării - sectorul oltean (The Danube Floodplain on the Oltenian sector), Sitech Publishing House, Craiova.
Vlădut A., 2004. Precipitation deficit within Oltenia Plain between 1961 and 2000, Geographical Phorum. Geographical studies and environmental research, 3: 99-104.
Vlădut A., 2007. Air temperature regime within the Danube alluvial plain (Drobeta Turnu-Severin - the Olt sector), Geographical Phorum. Geographical studies and environmental research, 6: 102-110.
Geografia Văii Dunării Româneşti (Geography of the Romanian Danube Valley), Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest.
Law No. 575/22.10.2001 concerning the National Territory Arrangement Plan - Section V - Natural risk areas (Appeared in the Official Gazette No. 726/14.11.2001).
Flood Action Programme. Action Programme for Sustainable Flood Protection in the Danube River Basin (International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) along with the countries in the Danube River Basin).
Report on the defence against floods, dangerous meteorological phenomena, accidents at the hydrotechnical constructions and accidental pollution in Dolj County, April-May 2006 - Issued by the Dolj County Committee for Emergency Situations.
National Strategy for the Flood Risk Management. Prevention, Protection and Diminution of Flood Effects (Romanian Ministry of Environment).
DIRECTIVE 2007/60/CE on Flood Risk Assessment and Management.
License
This content is open access.