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Collaboration between Historians and Hydrologists on the Ardeche River (France)

First Step: Inventory of Historical Flood Information

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The Use of Historical Data in Natural Hazard Assessments

Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ((NTHR,volume 17))

Abstract

Collaboration between historians, archivists and hydrologists can provide a significant improvement in the field of flood hazard studies, by using historical information about floods. This “Historisk” methodology, first applied in 1996 and 1997 on the Guiers river in France (Lang et al., 1998), is herein presented for the Ardeche river, France (Coeur et al., 1999). For this river, historical information is available for the 19th and 20th centuries, since many records from the Ardeche flood warning system are available. Several hydrologists, such as De Mardigny (1860) and Pardé (1925) have produced technical reports about the historical floods. The analysis of the different archive sources will allow a qualitative recovery of the most important floods of the two last centuries, and the establishment of a guide presenting the different archive sources about floods. Hydraulic studies will afterwards be carried out for the estimation of historical flood discharges.

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  1. Cemagref, Division Hydrologie-Hydraulique, 3 bis quai Chauveau, 69336, Lyon cedex 09, France

    R. Naulet & M. Lang

  2. Université Pierre Mendès-France, CRHIPA, BP 25X, 38040, Grenoble Cedex, France

    D. Coeur

  3. Direction Départementale de l’Equipement, Service d’Annonce des Crues de l’Ardèche, 1 av. du Vanel, BP 613, 07006, Privas cedex, France

    C. Gigon

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany

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  2. Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  3. Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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Naulet, R., Lang, M., Coeur, D., Gigon, C. (2001). Collaboration between Historians and Hydrologists on the Ardeche River (France). In: Glade, T., Albini, P., Francés, F. (eds) The Use of Historical Data in Natural Hazard Assessments. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3490-5_9

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