Assessment of torrential flood susceptibility: Case study - Ukrina River Basin (B&H)

Abstract

Torrential floods are the most frequent natural catastrophic events in the Republic of Srpska (B&H). The main objective of this study is susceptibility assessment to torrential floods in Ukrina River Basin using Index Based Method (IBM) and Flash Flood Potential Method (FFPI), which operates entirely in a GIS environment. The definition and identification of influencing factors for torrential floods was the first step in the process of developing the Torrential Flood Susceptibility Model (TFSM). According to the results of these models, 54.00% and 40.86% of the Ukrina Basin area is in the categories of strong and very strong susceptibility to torrential floods. The second task was to identify the torrential basins and create the Register and the Cadastre of Torrential Basins in the Ukrina River Basin. After detailed field survey and analyses, 154 torrential basins have been identified, occupying 551.37 km 2 of the Ukrina Basin. According to the validation indicators of the Torrential Flood Susceptibility Model, 138 torrential basins are in the category of strong and very strong susceptibility according to Index Based Method, while 112 torrential basins are in the same category of susceptibility according to Flash Flood Potential Index Method, which are very good results of the validation. This paper presents the significant step towards better understanding of the phenomenon of torrential floods in the Republic of Srpska (B&H). The data presented in this paper are also significant to practical issues such as integral water management projects, spatial planning, sustainable land planning and protection of soil, forest ecosystems and environmental protection, sediment management, agriculture and other human activities.

Assessment of torrential flood and landslide susceptibility of terrain: Case study - Mlava River Basin (Serbia)

“…Susceptibility to torrential floods with this method was also analyzed in the region, Republika Srpska (B&H), for the Ukrina River Basin. In this basin, which covers an area of 1,498.81 km 2 , it was found that the class of very high susceptibility covers 9.65% of the basin area, high susceptibility category 31.21%, medium susceptibility occurs at 39.81% and low at 19.33% of the observed territory (Lovrić et al, 2019).…”

“…This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Serbia Увод Природно и антропогено изазване непогоде веома су честе у свету, и могу проузроковати велику материјалну штету и значајан губитак људских живота. Утврђивање обима и надокнада штете услед поплава је тешко спроводиво у пракси (Alcantara, 2002;Toya & Skidmore, 2007;Živković et al, 2015;Spalevic et al, 2017;Blöschl et al, 2019;Lovrić et al, 2019). Појава природних и антропогених екстрема (климатске промене, губитак биодиверзитета, прекомерна експлоатација природних ресурса) широм света наводи нас да обратимо већу пажњу на њихове утицаје на животну средину и економске активности (Guzzetti et al, 2005;Schmidt et al, 2006;Lerner, 2007).…”

“…Подложност бујичним поплавама овим методом анализирана је и у региону, Републици Српској (БиХ), за слив реке Укрине. У овом сливу који захвата површину од 1.498,81 km 2 утврђено је да класа врло високе подложности обухвата 9,65% површине слива, категорија високе подложности 31,21%, средња подложност се јавља на 39,81% и ниска на 19,33% посматране територије (Lovrić et al, 2019). У сливу реке Bâsca у Румунији (површина 785,1 km 2 ), класа високе подложности бујичним поплавама покрива површину од 0,85%, средња подложност 28,07%, ниска 71,05% и минимална 0,03% (Minea, 2013).…”

“…Natural and anthropogenic induced disasters are very common in the world, and can cause great material damage and significant loss of human lives. Determining the extent and compensation for flood damage is difficult to implement in practice (Alcantara, 2002;Toya & Skidmore, 2007;Živković et al, 2015;Spalevic et al, 2017;Blöschl et al, 2019;Lovrić et al, 2019). The emergence of natural and anthropogenic extremes (climate change, biodiversity loss, overexploitation of natural resources) around the world leads us to pay more attention to their environmental impacts and economic activities (Guzzetti et al, 2005;Schmidt et al, 2006;Lerner, 2007).…”

Human resource management in environmental protection in Serbia

“…Globalization brings new challenges and imposes increasing demands on the quality of the environment (Gajić & Cvetanović, 2015;Menković et al, 2018;Lovrić et al, 2019). Human resources management involves the initiation of quality improvement initiatives, expressed through an adequate allocation and maximization of human resources.…”