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Environmental risks in waterstreams are not inconsiderable factor affecting the ecosystem and humans as part of the whole. As part of a comprehensive EU wide efforts to protect water bodies in Slovakia was adaptation of Directive 2000/60/EC which is establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and water management. The core of the paper is an analysis of potential environmental risks in river basin Horn?d due to flooding. The aim is to identify possible sources of contamination, which...

Construction and beginning of operation of reservoirs have significant impact on the environment. Resettlement of residents, flooding of a part of the river valley, changes in the river regime and ecosystems as well as mass movements are the most troublesome types of interactions. Such processes may be a little less noticeable when polders are designed. Management of geological resources i.e. mineral resources accumulated in the reservoir basin or in its vicinity is a significant task. It often happens that minera...

The main purpose of the construction of flood protection measure is to protect the urban area. Flood strategy should cover the entire river basin area and promote the coordinated development and management of actions regarding water, land and related resources. Structural measures (defence structures) will remain important elements and should primarily focus on the protection of human health and safety, and valuable goods and property. Intensive rainfall and springпїЅs snow melting occurrence leads to floods almos...

Opinions on the potential uses of risk analysis and environmental impact assessment (EIA) are different. Although many experts, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers agree that risk analysis is a valuable tool to inform decisions, they disagree about the extent to which risk estimates may be biased and should be allowed to influence public policies to protect health and the environment and to be used within the EIA process. The quality and value of any risk analysis depends on the adequacy of the data and t...

The process of Environmental impact assessmen t (EIA) is successfully applied as a tool for environmental planning and environmental policy in many countries worldwide. It is generally accepted that the environment has three inter-dependent components: economic, socio-political and natural. C onsequently, integrated environmental assessment and management coupled with su stainable development is critical, and in order to achieve this goal, effective guidelines and implementable legislation are necessary. EIA legis...

Hygienic problems and the protection of property against floods have been successfully solved by existing concepts of drainage. However, the way of urban drainage has led to intensification of urbanization impact on hydrological regime of the country. Technologically, environmentally and economically purposeful urban drainage prevents rapid runoff of waste water. New concept s upports such way which resembles natural way of drainage in unstopped floods and which reduces negative consequences of country urbanizatio...

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hu rricanes, flash floods, volcanic eruptions and landslides have always cons tituted a major problem in many developing and developed countries. Flood disaster has very special place in natural hazards and is considered as a major natural hazard due to its devastating effects on the affected area. Its effected area is not bounded; it is an unusual event of river basin. Flood related problems and many other applications proved that these problems could be solved through plan...