Adaptation of land use based on the assessment of inundation risk in the Kapos Valley, Southwest Hungary
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Archívum: Hungarian Geographical Bulletin
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Cím:
Adaptation of land use based on the assessment of inundation risk in the Kapos Valley, Southwest Hungary
Létrehozó:
Gyenizse, Péter
Lóczy, Dénes
Dezső, József
Pirkhoffer, Ervin
Słowik, Marcin
Kiadó:
Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
Dátum:
2020-10-02
Téma:
floodplain rehabilitation
hydromorphology
paleochannels
peat bogs
Histosols
land use change
Kapos River
Tartalmi leírás:
Complex river rehabilitation/restoration projects devote equal attention to the improvement of hydromorphological conditions and the neighbouring floodplain environment. Since land use exerts a heavy control on the hydrological cycle of floodplains, land use optimization is a central task in floodplain rehabilitation. In floodplains where large surfaces are temporarily inundated, the optimal allocation of land use classes involves the preservation of wetlands, maintenance of grasslands (meadows and pastures) and forests, and the restriction of arable land to higher ground with the lowest inundation hazard. The detailed mapping of land use against the distribution of soil types and fluvial landforms provides a solid basis for land use optimization. Rehabilitation design is presented in the paper on the example of the Kapos Valley, where inundations in the wet year of 2010 caused great damage to agricultural crops and efforts are directed to better water management (excess water reduction and floodwater retention) on the floodplain. Land use conversions, which are less expensive and easier to implement, are preferred to structural (engineering) solutions.
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angol
Típus:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Formátum:
application/pdf
Azonosító:
10.15201/hungeobull.69.3.5
Forrás:
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin; Vol. 69 No. 3 (2020); 299-316
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin; Évf. 69 szám 3 (2020); 299-316
2064-5147
2064-5031
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