Week 8: Mass Wasting
Mass Wasting Events in Romania Romania is increasingly vulnerable to: droughts, high temperatures, heat waves, heavy precipitation, landslides, earthquakes, and floods. Droughts may become more frequent in some areas due to river runoff decrease as well as from increased demand and consumption due to economic development and population growth. Flooding, land use change, increased aridity and deforestation are impacting land stability, particularly in Romania’s central and eastern zones. This is resulting in a high degree of vulnerability to and risk from, landslides. This is further compounded by changing temporal changes and rainfall variability. Precipitation patterns and variability, land use, wind, glacial and snow melt, and other climatic conditions affect river systems. Catastrophic flooding in Romania has led to built-environment destruction, fatalities and significant economic losses. The most common natural disasters include heavy rainstorms, mudslides and landslides. Natur