Adapting flood preparedness tools to changing flood risk conditions: the situation in Poland⁎ The preparation of this paper was funded from the EU FP7 STAR-FLOOD Project (STrengthening And Redesigning European FLOOD risk practices: Towards appropriate and resilient flood risk governance arrangements). This project also provided funding for the author’s participation at the BALTEX Conference.

Flooding is the most destructive natural hazard in the Baltic Sea Basin in general and in Poland in particular. The notion includes floods from rivers and mountain torrents, as well as floods from sea surges in coastal areas, and floods from sewage systems. There have been several large floods in Po...

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Main Author: Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Oceanologia
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007832341450022X