What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin

The objective of this article is to analyze from a historical perspective the impacts of floods in the Ter river basin of North-Eastern Catalonia between 1900 and 2020. The analysis focuses on the three factors that, according to the IPCC, intervene in the definition of vulnerability, namely exposur...

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Autores: Ribas Palom, Anna, Saurí Pujol, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Inundacions
Floods
Ter (Catalunya : Curs d'aigua)
Ter (Catalonia : rivers)
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spelling What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basinRibas Palom, AnnaSaurí Pujol, DavidInundacionsFloodsTer (Catalunya : Curs d'aigua)Ter (Catalonia : rivers)The objective of this article is to analyze from a historical perspective the impacts of floods in the Ter river basin of North-Eastern Catalonia between 1900 and 2020. The analysis focuses on the three factors that, according to the IPCC, intervene in the definition of vulnerability, namely exposure, susceptibility and adaptive capacity. The analysis has been structured in four historical periods with two or three catastrophic flood episodes for each period. Although a lack of reliable data and studies on especially economic losses must be acknowledged, results obtained indicate that flood exposure has increased in the basin but vulnerability may have decreased as a result of decreased susceptibility and, especially, of a significant increase in adaptive capacity. Both in terms of victims and relative economic losses, the impacts of the floods would show a downward trend that, among other factors, tends to correlate positively with the increasing levels of economic development and well-being experienced in the basin during the last centuryEste artículo tiene por objetivo analizar, desde una perspectiva histórica, cuáles han sido los impactos de las inundaciones en la cuenca del río Ter durante el período comprendido entre los años 1900 y 2020. El análisis se centra en los tres factores que, según la aproximación a la vulnerabilidad que propone el IPCC, intervienen en el impacto de las inundaciones: exposición, susceptibilidad y capacidad de adaptación. Metodológicamente, este análisis se ha estructurado a partir de la selección de cuatro períodos históricos y dos o tres episodios de inundación catastróficos para cada período. Aunque faltan datos y estudios concluyentes especialmente sobre pérdidas económicas, los resultados obtenidos indican que, si bien la exposición a las inundaciones ha aumentado y los daños han seguido una tendencia ascendente, la vulnerabilidad ha disminuido a consecuencia de la disminución en la susceptibilidad y, especialmente, a un importante aumento de la capacidad de adaptación. Tanto en términos de víctimas como de pérdidas económicas relativas, los impactos de las inundaciones mostrarían una tendencia a la baja que, entre otros factores, tiende a correlacionarse positivamente con los niveles crecientes de desarrollo económico y bienestar que ha experimentado esta cuencaUniversidad de La Rioja2021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpeer-reviewedapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10256/18643http://hdl.handle.net/10256/18643Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 2021, num. 47, p. undefArticles publicats (D-G)Ribas Palom, Anna Saurí Pujol, David 2021 What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 47reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.18172/cig.4726info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0211-6820info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1697-9540Reconeixement-NoComercial-SenseObraDerivada 3.0 Espanyahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10256/186432026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin
spellingShingle What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin
Ribas Palom, Anna
Inundacions
Floods
Ter (Catalunya : Curs d'aigua)
Ter (Catalonia : rivers)
title_short What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin
title_full What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin
title_fullStr What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin
title_full_unstemmed What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin
title_sort What can we learn from the past? A century of changes in vulnerability to floods in the Ter river basin
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ribas Palom, Anna
Saurí Pujol, David
author Ribas Palom, Anna
author_facet Ribas Palom, Anna
Saurí Pujol, David
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Inundacions
Floods
Ter (Catalunya : Curs d'aigua)
Ter (Catalonia : rivers)
topic Inundacions
Floods
Ter (Catalunya : Curs d'aigua)
Ter (Catalonia : rivers)
description The objective of this article is to analyze from a historical perspective the impacts of floods in the Ter river basin of North-Eastern Catalonia between 1900 and 2020. The analysis focuses on the three factors that, according to the IPCC, intervene in the definition of vulnerability, namely exposure, susceptibility and adaptive capacity. The analysis has been structured in four historical periods with two or three catastrophic flood episodes for each period. Although a lack of reliable data and studies on especially economic losses must be acknowledged, results obtained indicate that flood exposure has increased in the basin but vulnerability may have decreased as a result of decreased susceptibility and, especially, of a significant increase in adaptive capacity. Both in terms of victims and relative economic losses, the impacts of the floods would show a downward trend that, among other factors, tends to correlate positively with the increasing levels of economic development and well-being experienced in the basin during the last century
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