This monograph summarizes the environmental issues concerning the channel and the floodplain of the Drava River. It describes the diverse forms of human impact (river regulation, damming and reservoirs, dredging etc.) and the environmental changes of hydrological regime, sediment transport, biodiversity etc. involved. The transboundary nature of the river is emphasized and the resulting problems are outlined. Special attention is devoted to the evolution and present condition of the floodplain (drainage pattern, oxbow lakes and their vegetation). The possible solutions to environmental problems are illustrated by a review of ongoing and planned rehabilitation measures. The book is amply illustrated with maps, cross/sections, diagrams and photographs. The international team of authors (representing all countries crossed by the Drava River: Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary) approach the topic from different aspects. Thus, thereader is provided with a comprehensive picture of this, up until now, little studied European river.

Autorentext
Dénes Lóczy, DSc, is the Head of the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Pécs (Hungary). His research interests include floodplain geomorphology, management and human impact on the environment. He is editor of the books ´Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary´ and ´Geomorphological Impacts of Extreme Weather´, previously published by Springer. In addition, he co-edited the books ´Anthropogenic Geomorphology´ and ´Recent Landform Evolution´.

Inhalt

1. Introduction (Dénes Lóczy, Pécs)

2. The Drava Basin: Geological and geomorphological setting (Dénes Lóczy, Pécs )

3. Land use (Gerhard Karl Lieb, Wolfgang Sulzer)

4. Climate change

5. Hydrogeomorphology (Ulrich Schwarz, Vienna)

6. Hydrological characteristics of the Drava River in Croatia (Lidija Tadi, Tamara Dadi, Osijek)

7. Water and sediment discharge along the Hungarian section (Enik Anna Tamás, Baja)

8. River regulation (Enik Anna Tamás, Baja)

9. Human impact on water budget(Ognjen Bonacci, Split)

10. Flood hazard (László Márk et al., Pécs)

11. Evolution of the Drava floodplain in Hungary in the last 100 years (Tímea Kiss, Gábor Andrási, Szeged)

12. Oxbow lakes: hydromorphology (Dénes Lóczy, József Dezs, Szabolcs Czigány, Gabriella Tóth, Pécs)

13. Oxbow lakes: vegetation history and conservation (Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai, Pécs)

14. Floodplain connectivity (József Dezs, Dénes Lóczy, Pécs)
    Water quality of the Lower Drava River (Vlatka Gvozdi et al. Osijek?)
    Macroinvertebrates and fishes of the Drava (Zoltán Csabai, Péter Sály, Arnold Móra, Pécs)
    Floodplain forests (Balázs Kevey, Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai, Pécs)
    Nature conservation and floodplain rehabilitation (Szabolcs Závoczky, Tibor Parrag, Pécs)
    Rehabilitation of side-arms (Parrag Tibor, Pécs)
    Landscape rehabilitation: Old Drava Programme (Dénes Lóczy, Pécs)