Course: Drought and flood protection

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Course title Drought and flood protection
Course code KZP/4DAFP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
1. Flood-drought management (introduction of the contemporary water insecurities, selection of the joint working projects) 2. Water resources development (water organizations, grey and green infrastructure, and other water practices) 3. Theory of water scarcity and abundance (types of assessments and indexes, approaches and unintended consequences) 4. Adaptive water governance (actors, code of conduct, flood-drought plans, limits and challenges) 5. Disaster Risk Reduction (vulnerability, resilience, sustainable development, integrated water resources development) 6. Water citizen science (River Chiefs in China, Tai Baan science, popularization of water science, challenges) 7. Czech flood in 2002 (history, assessment, conflict resolution, consequences) 8. Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam collapsed in 2018 (history, assessment, conflict resolution, consequences) 9. Uttarakhand flood in 2021 (history, assessment, conflict resolution, consequences) 10. South-North Water Transfer Project in China in 2002 (history, assessment, conflict resolution, consequences) 11. Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal in 2023 (history, assessment, conflict resolution, consequences) 12. Děčín Weir in 2023 (history, assessment, conflict resolution, consequences) 13. Summary, final evaluation of the group projects and discussion

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • ESLAMIAN, S., ESLAMIAN, F. Management of Drought and Water Scarcity. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017.
  • GWP. Guidelines for Preparation of the Drought Management Plans. Stockholm: GWP, 2015.
  • HURLBERT, M.A. Adaptive Governance of Disasters. Drought and Flood in Rural Areas. Cham: Springer. 2018.
  • LIU, H. Flood Prevention and Drought Relief in Mekong River Basin. Singapore: Springer. 2020.
  • PANDEY, M., AZAMATHULLA, H., PU, J. H. River Dynamics and Flood Hazards. Studies on Risk and Mitigation. Cham: Springer. 2022.
  • PENNING-ROWSELL, E., BECKER, M. Flood risk management. Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities. Oxon: Routledge. 2019.
  • RAADGEVER, T., HEGGER, D. Flood Risk Management Strategies and Governance. Cham: Springer. 2018.
  • ZELEŇÁKOVÁ, M. Flood Damage Assessment and Management. Cham: Springer. 2020.


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