大河系统洪水风险管理——德国的经验(论文摘编)(英文)

FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT IN LARGE RIVER SYSTEMS——GERMAN EXPERIENCES (IN BRIEF)

Problems with extreme floods have been aggravated in Germany mainly due to loss of flood retaining areas caused by river regulation measures in former centuries, and by intensified use of the former natural flood plains. The situation may have been worsened in the last decades by climate change.

Problems with extreme floods have been aggravated in Germany mainly due to loss of flood retaining areas caused by river regulation measures in former centuries, and by intensified use of the former natural flood plains. The situation may have been worsened in the last decades by climate change. The recent August 2002 economic flood damage in the Elbe river basin added up to 9.2 〉（ 10^9ε（100×10^9￥）. Numerous levee breaches happened. Also other German bigger rivers like the Danube and the Rhine river caused considerable damage to buildings and infrastructure in the previous decades, and many lives have been lost.