The Comparative Analysis of the Adaptability Level of Municipalities in the Nysa K?odzka Sub-Basin to Flood Hazard

Grzegorz Dumieński, Agnieszka Mruklik, Andrzej Tiukało and Marta Bedryj
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Grzegorz Dumieński: Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Water Management—National Research Institute, 01673 Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Mruklik: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, 50375 Wroclaw, Poland
Andrzej Tiukało: Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Water Management—National Research Institute, 01673 Warsaw, Poland
Marta Bedryj: Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Water Management—National Research Institute, 01673 Warsaw, Poland

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-23

Abstract: A municipality is a basic local government unit (LGU) in Poland. It is responsible for the safety of its citizens, especially in circumstances of flood hazard. A municipality is a unique social-ecological system (SES), distinguished by its ability to adapt to flood hazard. It is impossible to specify the conditions a municipality has to reach to achieve the highest adaptability to flood hazard, however, it is possible to assign a level of adaptability to a municipality, one that corresponds to the position of a given municipality among the population of assessed municipalities threatened by floods. Therefore, a tool was developed to rank municipalities by their adaptability on the assumption that the assessment of municipal adaptability was influenced by 15 selected features. The research was carried out using data from the period of 2010–2016 for 18 municipalities-SESs located in the Nysa K?odzka sub-basin. It was indicated that municipalities located in the higher course of the river possess higher levels of adaptability. At the same time, the size of a flood stands for each municipality position with regards to the synthetic adaptability index (SAI).

Keywords: adaptability; socio-ecological system; flood risk; municipality; Nysa K?odzka sub-basin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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