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| Titel |
The use of taxation records in assessing historical floods in South Moravia, Czech Republic |
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R. Brázdil, K. Chromá, L. Řezníčková, H. Valášek, L. Dolák, Z. Stachoň, E. Soukalová, P. Dobrovolny |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 18, no. 10 ; Nr. 18, no. 10 (2014-10-01), S.3873-3889 |
| Datensatznummer |
250120485
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-18-3873-2014.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Since the second half of the 17th century, tax relief has been available to
farmers and landowners to offset flood damage to property (buildings) and
land (fields, meadows, pastures, gardens) in South Moravia, Czech Republic.
Historically, the written applications for this were supported by a
relatively efficient bureaucratic process that left a clear data trail of
documentation, preserved at several levels: in the communities affected, in
regional offices, and in the Moravian Land Office, all of which are to be
found in estate and family collections in the Moravian Land Archives in the
city of Brno, the provincial capital. As well as detailed information about
damage done and administrative responses to it, data are often preserved as
to the flood event itself, the time of its occurrence and its impacts,
sometimes together with causes and stages. The final flood database based on
taxation records is used here to describe the temporal and spatial density of
both flood events and the records themselves. The information derived is used
to help create long-term flood chronologies for the rivers Dyje, Jihlava,
Svratka and Morava, combining floods interpreted from taxation records with
other documentary data and floods derived from later systematic hydrological
measurements (water levels, discharges). Common periods of higher flood
frequency appear largely in the periods 1821–1850 and 1921–1950, although
this shifts to several other decades for individual rivers. A number of
uncertainties are inseparable from flood data taxation records: their spatial
and temporal incompleteness; the inevitable limitation to larger-scale damage
and restriction to the summer half-year; and the different characters of
rivers, including land-use changes and channel modifications. Taxation data
have considerable potential for extending our knowledge of past floods for
the rest of the Czech Republic, not to mention other European countries in
which records have survived. |
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