MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS IN SELECTED AIRPORTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Some significant flood events that have occurred in various European countries in the last decade are described. They are used to illustrate the widespread nature of flooding, its economic impact and the resultant loss of life. The underlying hydro-meteorological causes of each flood are outlined, followed by a brief chronology of the flood event and the subsequent consequences. The flood events have been drawn from countries with differing climatic conditions, and from river basins that differ in both size and topography. The selection includes floods from the following countries: the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. The events include examples of both flash floods and slower basin-wide floods. The important lessons that may be drawn from these events are highlighted, as are the economic impacts such floods might have in the future due to climate change.

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Use of Multi-Criteria Optimization for Selection of Building Materials for Reconstruction

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.899.474 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 899 ◽

pp. 474-478 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Marcela Haliřová ◽

Eva Rykalová

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Decision Process ◽

Building Materials ◽

Early Stage ◽

Evaluation Methodology ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Suitable Material ◽

Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽

Partition Walls ◽

Selection Of

Problematic of optimizing the selection of a suitable building material for reconstruction in the Czech Republic is a frequent topic. The paper reviews the methodology of multi-criteria evaluation of partition walls for the following criteria: the mechanical-physical, technological, economic, but also ecological. The multi-criteria evaluation methodology can be used at an early stage of construction, in the decision process of selecting the most suitable material variants for designing interior non load-bearing walls.

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Application of Multi-Criteria Optimization for Selection of Building Materials for New Buildings

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1041.47 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1041 ◽

pp. 47-50

Author(s):

Marcela Haliřová ◽

Eva Rykalová ◽

Zdeněk Peřina ◽

Marie Wolfová

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Building Material ◽

Building Materials ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Load Bearing ◽

Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽

New Buildings ◽

Selection Of

The issue of optimizing the selection of a suitable building material for new buildings in the Czech Republic is a frequent topic. The paper reviews the methodology of multi-criteria evaluation of non-load bearing walls for the selected criteria.

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Designating Regional Elements System in a Critical Infrastructure System in the Context of the Czech Republic

Systems ◽

10.3390/systems8020013 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Petr Novotny ◽

Michaela Janosikova

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Critical Infrastructure ◽

Local Conditions ◽

Holistic View ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The Road ◽

Critical Elements ◽

Infrastructure Design ◽

Infrastructure System ◽

Integral Assessment

Critical infrastructure is a complex system whose disruption or failure results in significant impacts on state interests, i.e., territorial security, economy, and the basic needs of the population. The current European Critical Infrastructure Protection Model does not allow the direct identification of critical elements at the regional level. Based on this, the paper brings a proposal for a unified system of critical infrastructure design based on a bottom-up approach. It is a progressive approach, utilizing contemporary trends in the application of science-based knowledge to critical infrastructure. A holistic view of this issue allows us to take into account the needs and preferences of the population, the preferences of the stakeholders and the local conditions of the region under consideration. The novelty of this approach is seen, in particular, in the identification of regional critical infrastructure elements through an integral assessment of these elements’ failure impact, not only on the dependent subsectors, but also on the population (population equivalent) in the assessed region. The final part of the paper presents a case study demonstrating the practical application of the proposed system to the road infrastructure in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.

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Costs related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy control in the Czech Republic in 2001–2008

Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) ◽

10.17221/586-agricecon ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 55 (No. 3) ◽

pp. 149-155

Author(s):

R. Pospíšil

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

The Other ◽

Raw Material ◽

Spongiform Encephalopathy ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Disease Eradication ◽

Carcass Disposal ◽

Positive Animal

This paper pays attention to and analyses two of the economic impacts of the BSE occurrence in the Czech Republic, namely the financial compensations to the farmers whose herds had been affected and the costs of animal killing and carcass disposal in the rendering plant. Between February 2001 and the end of June 2008, a total of 1 263 749 cows were examined and 28 cases of the BSE were detected. Consequently, 4 022 cows in cohorts were killed and their carcasses were safely disposed of. The farmers whose herds had been affected were provided compensations for the losses suffered. The total of the compensations in this period reached CZK 198,413 thousand. Of these, 83.3% (CZK 164.9 million) were compensations for the value of the killed animals, 9.7% (CZK 19.2 million) for the related costs, i.e., killing, safe disposal of carcasses and the examination for the BSE, and 6.9% (CZK 13.5 million) for the losses due to non-materialised production. The average costs per 1 BSE-positive animal were CZK 7.08 million and the average costs per 1 cohort animal were CZK 49 331. In the rendering plant responsible for killing the infected and cohort animals and safely disposing of their carcasses, the total of 2 221 tons of raw material was processed between March 2003 and February 2008, and this cost CZK 9 315 thousand. The fact that there were only two cases of the BSE in 2007 and none in 2008 suggests a trend towards the disease eradication, which is in agreement with the situation in the other EU countries.

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