Institute of Geography
Topic
Impact of nature-based solutions on flood risk
PhD. program
Physical Geography, Geoecology and Geoinformatics
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
Doc. RNDr. Matej Vojtek, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
Annotation
Nature-based solutions represent sustainable solutions for mitigating flood risk and building a more resilient society, especially in the context of climate and land use/land cover changes. The aim of the dissertation thesis is to comprehensively assess flood risk, focusing on fluvial and pluvial floods, which are the most common types of floods in Slovakia, and to determine how the proposed blue/green or hybrid nature-based solutions can affect flood risk. Flood risk will be assessed in terms of its two basic components: hazard and vulnerability. The use of detailed spatial data, rainfall-runoff, hydraulic, and scenario modelling, as well as geo-information technologies is assumed in the thesis.