14th-16th-Century Danube Floods and Long-Term Water-Level Changes in Archaeological and Sedimentary Evidence in The Western and Central Carpathian Basin: an Overview with Documentary Comparison

Kiss, Andrea; Laszlovszky, József

doi:10.2478/jengeo-2013-0001

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“…It is also consistent with evidence from environmental history. For example, buildings typically were abandoned after multiple consecutive floods in a short time (e.g., relocation of the fifteenth century Franciscan friary in Visegrád, Hungary [ Kiss and Laszlovszky , ]), while single exceptional floods were less likely to lead to their abandonment.…”

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Time scale interactions and the coevolution of humans and water

2015

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We present a coevolutionary view of hydrologic systems, revolving around feedbacks between environmental and social processes operating across different time scales. This brings to the fore an emphasis on emergent phenomena in changing water systems, such as the levee effect, adaptation to change, system lock‐in, and system collapse due to resource depletion. Changing human values play a key role in the emergence of these phenomena and should therefore be considered as internal to the system. Guidance is provided for the framing and modeling of these phenomena to test alternative hypotheses about how they arose. A plurality of coevolutionary models, from stylized to comprehensive system‐of‐system models, may assist strategic water management for long time scales through facilitating stakeholder participation, exploring the possibility space of alternative futures, and helping to synthesize the observed dynamics in a wide range of case studies. Future research opportunities lie in exploring emergent phenomena arising from time scale interactions through historical, comparative, and process studies of human‐water feedbacks.

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Section: So How Does Socio‐hydrology Help With Water Management?mentioning

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Time scale interactions and the coevolution of humans and water

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“…Both documentary sources and flood marks can be used to infer the flood peak runoff by mathematical modeling . If one intends to go further back in history, paleohydrology may provide useful information on the magnitude of floods through their environmental effects such as slackwater sediment deposits or scour lines . An example of a European overview derived from historical documentary‐based long‐term reconstructions is shown in Figure .…”

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Increasing river floods: fiction or reality?

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There has been a surprisingly large number of major floods in the last years around the world, which suggests that floods may have increased and will continue to increase in the next decades. However, the realism of such changes is still hotly discussed in the literature. This overview article examines whether floods have changed in the past and explores the driving processes of such changes in the atmosphere, the catchments and the river system based on examples from Europe. Methods are reviewed for assessing whether floods may increase in the future. Accounting for feedbacks within the human-water system is important when assessing flood changes over lead times of decades or centuries. It is argued that an integrated flood risk management approach is needed for dealing with future flood risk with a focus on reducing the vulnerability of the societal system.

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“…Another record from the regional office, dated 24 March 1838, refers to support for direly afflicted people in Hungary. Although no direct report of flood appears here, this referred to an ice flood that practically destroyed the towns of Pest and Óbuda (now Budapest), together with their suburbs (see Kiss, 2009a). In the end, support from the Valtice estate amounted to 86 gulden 55 kreutzer (S5).…”

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“…Contributions address individual disastrous floods (Thorndycraft et al, 2006;Kiss, 2009b;Brázdil et al, 2010a;Elleder, 2010;Wetter et al, 2011) or compile and analyse long-term flood chronologies, often combining floods derived from documentary sources with those from continuous hydrological measurements (Sturm et al, 2001;Benito et al, 2003;Mudelsee et al, 2003Mudelsee et al, , 2006Brázdil et al, 2005Brázdil et al, , 2011cBarriendos and Rodrigo, 2006;Glaser et al, 2010;Macdonald and Black, 2010;Schmocker-Fackel and Naef, 2010;Bullón, 2011;Kiss and Laszlovszky, 2013;Macdonald, 2013;Rohr, 2013). These papers usually gather information about the frequency, seasonality, severity, synoptic origins and human impacts of historical floods.…”

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The use of taxation records in assessing historical floods in South Moravia, Czech Republic

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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Since the second half of the 17th century, tax relief has been available to farmers and landowners to offset flood damage to property (buildings) and land (fields, meadows, pastures, gardens) in South Moravia, Czech Republic. Historically, the written applications for this were supported by a relatively efficient bureaucratic process that left a clear data trail of documentation, preserved at several levels: in the communities affected, in regional offices, and in the Moravian Land Office, all of which are to be found in estate and family collections in the Moravian Land Archives in the city of Brno, the provincial capital. As well as detailed information about damage done and administrative responses to it, data are often preserved as to the flood event itself, the time of its occurrence and its impacts, sometimes together with causes and stages. The final flood database based on taxation records is used here to describe the temporal and spatial density of both flood events and the records themselves. The information derived is used to help create long-term flood chronologies for the rivers Dyje, Jihlava, Svratka and Morava, combining floods interpreted from taxation records with other documentary data and floods derived from later systematic hydrological measurements (water levels, discharges). Common periods of higher flood frequency appear largely in the periods 1821-1850 and 1921-1950, although this shifts to several other decades for individual rivers. A number of uncertainties are inseparable from flood data taxation records: their spatial and temporal incompleteness; the inevitable limitation to larger-scale damage and restriction to the summer half-year; and the different characters of rivers, including land-use changes and channel modifications. Taxation data have considerable potential for extending our knowledge of past floods for the rest of the Czech Republic, not to mention other European countries in which records have survived.

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14th-16th-Century Danube Floods and Long-Term Water-Level Changes in Archaeological and Sedimentary Evidence in The Western and Central Carpathian Basin: an Overview with Documentary Comparison

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Time scale interactions and the coevolution of humans and water

Time scale interactions and the coevolution of humans and water

Increasing river floods: fiction or reality?

The use of taxation records in assessing historical floods in South Moravia, Czech Republic

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