This data paper describes the multinational Database of Flood Fatalities from the Euro-Mediterranean region FFEM-DB that hosts data of 2,875 flood fatalities from 12 territories (nine of which represent entire countries) in Europe and the broader Mediterranean region from 1980 to 2020. The FFEM-DB database provides data on fatalities’ profiles, location, and contributing circumstances, allowing researchers and flood risk managers to explore demographic, behavioral, and situational factors, as well as environmental features of flood-related mortality. The standardized data collection and classification methodology enable comparison between regions beyond administrative boundaries. The FFEM-DB is expandable, regularly updated, publicly available, and with anonymized data. The key advantages of the FFEM-DB compared to existing datasets containing flood fatalities are its high level of detail, data accuracy, record completeness, and the large sample size from an extended area.
Although they exist, fatalities related to floods are a rare occurrence in the island of Mallorca. In the aftermath of the Sant Llorenç flash-flood of October 2018, which killed 13 people, a research was undertaken to develop database gathering information about the flood related victims on the island. The data was obtained from official reports and newspapers archives and was completed via field research and witnesses' interviews. The difficulties in obtaining information reduced the period to the past 58 years. The results show that 25 people died as a result of a flood event in basins with an average area of 19.83 km 2 and a minimum of only 0.10 km 2. Breaking down further into demographics, 14 were male and 11 were female. The largest number of victims is included in the 18-65 age group and 36% of the fatalities were tourists and foreign residents. Even if the number of fatalities is small compared with other Mediterranean regions, the research results highlight the importance of the need of an increased safety campaign in the Islands, aimed both to residents and to tourists as well, taking into account the importance of Mallorca as a holidays resort in Europe.
Since the 1940s, the city centre of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar has suffered from several flooding episodes from the several tributaries of ca n’Amer creek. Five lives lost and a significant impact on the population were the result of the most relevant flood in the series that occurred in 2018. In this paper, an analysis of the historical relationship of the village with floods, the answer provided by the administration to those floods, and the geographic setting and the anthropic actions on the land are considered. Using the data collected by direct observation, witnesses, and graphs and fieldwork, a thorough investigation of the volume, flow, direction and levels of water has been developed. This translates into an exhaustive mapping of the event, discriminating the hydraulic behaviour in each of the affected roads and showing the sequential development of the flood. Flooding is a combination of severe stream flows, avulsion processes and angular sections that combine with infraestructures that interfere with the flow direction and prevent its reintegration into the main channel and where the streets become active channels.
RESUMENEspaña es uno de los principales exponentes de la actividad cinegética en el contexto europeo. Así lo refrendan aspectos como el elevado número de cazadores, la gran superficie destinada a aprovechamiento venatorio o el amplio abanico de especies cinegéticas.La práctica cinegética es motivo de inspiración y producción cultural muy heterogénea, donde sin duda el campo geográfico tiene su parcela. Se plantea un estudio bibliométrico de las publicaciones geográficas sobre caza en España analizando las temáticas de las aportaciones, la evolución temporal de los trabajos, el territorio de referencia, el ámbito editorial y los investigadores más prolíficos. Los estudios examinados se consolidan entorno a la biogeografía, la geografía del ocio y la geografía agraria.Palabras clave: España, Geografía, caza, bibliografía cinegética. ABSTRACTSpain is one of the leading exponents in hunting in the European context. The high number of hunters, the large surface dedicated to game preserves and the varied representation of big and small game species are some of the main factors that confers this importance. 302Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles N.º 74 -2017 Antoni Barceló Adrover, Miquel Grimalt Gelabert y Jaume Binimelis SebastianHunting inspires an heterogeneous cultural production, where definitively the geographical point of view has to be considered. It's presented a bibliometric study about hunting and geography in Spain. From the selected papers, we analyze the content, the trend over time, the territorial scope, the publication source and the most prolific investigators. In fact, the results are enclosed around biogeography, leisure geography and agrarian geography.Keywords: Spain, Geography, hunting, game bibliography. I. ANTECEdENTESLa caza, juntamente con la recolección, es una actividad inherente a la especie humana, ya que constituye una fuente primigenia de sustento anterior a la agricultura y la ganadería. Con adaptaciones y cambios ha llegado a nuestros días con un valor de actividad universal, compendio único de entretenimiento, sustento y condición atávica.Según el último censo publicado por la Federación de las Asociaciones de Caza y Conservación de la Fauna Silvestre de la Unión Europea (FACE, 2010) España cuenta con 980.000 cazadores, lo cual supone un 13,34 % del total de entre los 36 países de esta asociación internacional. Dentro de la cual, España es el segundo país con mayor número de practicantes después de Francia y por delante del Reino Unido, Italia, Alemania e Irlanda. En base a los datos referenciados, el porcentaje de cazadores en nuestro país en relación a la población total es del 2,21 %, cifra que se sitúa un punto porcentual sobre la media europea (1,21 %).Independientemente de las razones históricas, España es un país extremadamente rico en términos de biodiversidad y a la vez un entorno geoestratégico como lugar de paso o de destino de aves migratorias, lo cual refuerza su condición cinegética. En clave sociológica, los países mediterráneos (FACE, 2010 y Bernard, 200...
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