- Identification: 103/99/1470 - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
- Duration: 1999 - 2001
- Principal investigator: Doc. Ing. Adolf Patera CSc. (Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU)
- Co-investigator: Ing. František Doležal CSc. (Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles University)
- Co-investigator: Ing. Ladislav Kašpárek CSc. (Water Management Institute T.G.M.)
- Co-investigator: Doc. Ing. Svatopluk Korsuň CSc. (Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU)
- Co-investigator: Prof. Jiří Zezulák DrSc. (Forestry Faculty, Agricultural University)
- Co-investigator: RNDr. Jiří Žaloudek CSc. (Institute of Landscape Ecology, České Budějovice)
The floods of summer 1997 and the persisting danger of similar flood events or, oppositely, extreme droughts or other extraordinary hydrological events (such as ice blokages of streams, water quality accidents, failures of water control structures and equipment) in future suggest that the existing experience and available methods of water management should be systematically re-evaluated and new, more efficient ways of forecasting and protection should be searched. The project consists in research of relevant interactions within the causal chain atmosphere-catchment-stream-impacts and of the role played in this chain by technical measures in streams and flood plains and bio-technical measures in the surrounding landscape. the aim is to analyse the genesis and development of the above-listed extreme hydrological events and to develop methods for their forecasting, mitigation and prevention and for evaluation of their impacts. The tools to be used are, in particular, mathematical and physical models, remote sensing and GIS. The existing and newly proposed measures will be evaluated in a complex manner from the viewpoints of water management, technology, economics, environment and social impacts. The outputs will be formulated as proposals for the operational water management, state administration and legislature.
