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Documentary proxies and interdisciplinary research on historic geomorphologic hazards: a discussion of the current state from a central European perspective

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  • Pavel Raška
  • Vilém Zábranský
  • Jakub Dubišar
  • Antonín Kadlec
  • Alena Hrbáčová
  • Tomáš Strnad

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During the last two decades, documentary data (written and iconographic sources) have been increasingly employed in geomorphologic research aiming at reconstruction of territorial distribution, temporal occurrence and social and economic impacts of various geomorphologic hazards. The goal of this paper is to broaden the previous discussion (Glade et al. The use of historical data in natural hazard assessments. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2001 ) of the methodological constraints on the use of documentary data for geomorphologic hazard research. Using the interdisciplinary approach of geomorphology, historiography and medial studies, we firstly summarise the major finding of papers that have employed various types of documentary data sources to study geomorphologic hazards in different regions. In the second section, we present case studies from the Czech Republic resulting from the ongoing research project that is devoted to the assessment of the potential of documentary data to reconstruct past occurrences of and mitigation strategies for geomorphologic hazards. Finally, we discuss three main methodological issues emerging from our research: (a) problems emerging from the positivist approach to documentary data sources and the necessity for critical analyses of documentary data sources based on modern historiographic approaches, (b) constraints arising from the combination of documentary data from different spatiotemporal scales and (c) lacks in the use of documentary data to study local-based adaptation strategies to cope with geomorphologic hazards. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

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  • Pavel Raška & Vilém Zábranský & Jakub Dubišar & Antonín Kadlec & Alena Hrbáčová & Tomáš Strnad, 2014. "Documentary proxies and interdisciplinary research on historic geomorphologic hazards: a discussion of the current state from a central European perspective," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 70(1), pages 705-732, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:70:y:2014:i:1:p:705-732
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0839-z
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