<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stamatopoulos, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evelpidou, N.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The flood risk from rivers or streams, in urban areas. Examples from NW Greece.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SMARTeST Conference</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">27-28 September</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Athens, Greece</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div&gt;Natural hazards, on a national and international scale, have increased in the last years as a consequence of&amp;nbsp;climatic changes and human activity resulting in an unfavourable impact on socio-economic conditions.&amp;nbsp;Catastrophic phenomena related to river floods as well as, from erosional and meteorological events, and&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;human intervention.&amp;nbsp;The Vulnerability being particularly high in the regions intensely populated, like the analyzed case study, high&amp;nbsp;is the Risk.&amp;nbsp;The importance of geomorphological studies in assessing natural hazards due to river floods was brought into&amp;nbsp;focus with recent floods event that occurred in urban areas in NW Peloponnesus, Greece.&amp;nbsp;During the autumn and winter months intense rainfalls persisted for several hours producing severe flash flood&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;mainly in the alluvial playing of same urban streams - river. There were some loss of life and damage to buildings,&amp;nbsp;transport infrastructure and agricultural crops. The damages are mainly due to absence of good alluvial playing&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;management practices in recent decades, concretely after the year 1960 during the urban growth of towns.&amp;nbsp;The most commonly visible consequences of the land-use change are flash floods observed in urban areas&amp;nbsp;after high precipitation events.&amp;nbsp;As important as the value of runoff formed from the watershed, is the process of reconstruction of the shape of&amp;nbsp;the runoff hydrograph, especially the estimation of the time and value of the peak flow.&lt;/div&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>