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A considerable increase in flood damage has been observed worldwide, with mean annual values reaching tens of billions of US$ and still considerable number of fatalities. Most dramatic floods occur overseas (in particular in Asia – China, India, and Bangladesh), but in the last decade, floods have severely hit large parts of the European continent.
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KUNDZEWICZ, Z.W. (2006). SUMMER 1997 FLOOD IN POLAND IN PERSPECTIVE. In: Vasiliev, O., van Gelder, P., Plate, E., Bolgov, M. (eds) Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security. NATO Science Series, vol 78. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5741-0_8
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