FLOODS AND REVIOW FLOODS IN PROVINCE OF ESFAHAN

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

masood Moayeri ¹ , mozhgan Entezari ²

1 - استادیار گروه جغرافیای دانشگاه اصفهان
2 - دانشجوی دکتری ژنومورفولوژی گروه جغرافیای دانشگاه اصفهان

Received: 2008-01-30 Accepted : 2008-09-15 Published : 2008-08-22

Keywords: Flood, Esfahan, spate, Natural hazard,

Abstract :

With the expansion of cities and the construction of roads and highways , land otherwise permeable to water , are increasingly made resistant to rainfall absorption , the reduction of forest lands and pastures , growing at an alarming speed , also adds to the severity of the problem . Therefore , with the increase of impermeable lands in the cities on the one hand and with the decrease of pasture lands in rural areas on the other , floods increase in terms of volume and number . Floods are only natural phenomena and are as old as nature itself . What is unnatural is man,s insistence on occupying flood plains and also his ignorance or forget-fullness regarding their recurrences . Therefore , if natural phenomena are well understood and residents are trained in using such plains , damages and casualties can be reduced drastically . similarly , advanced technology can be employed to stop or reduce the occurrences of such catastrophic but natural phenomena. In this paper, we studied floods and especially floods in province of Esfahan . In the province of Esfahan floods is a one of most natural  phenomena .