This monograph summarizes the environmental issues concerning the channel and the floodplain of
the Drava River. It describes the diverse forms of human impact (river regulation damming and
reservoirs dredging etc.) and the environmental changes of hydrological regime sediment
transport biodiversity etc. involved. The transboundary nature of the river is emphasized and
the resulting problems are outlined. Special attention is devoted to the evolution and present
condition of the floodplain (drainage pattern oxbow lakes and their vegetation). The possible
solutions to environmental problems are illustrated by a review of ongoing and planned
rehabilitation measures. The book is amply illustrated with maps cross sections diagrams and
photographs. The international team of authors (representing all countries crossed by the Drava
River: Austria Slovenia Croatia and Hungary) approach the topic from different aspects. Thus
the reader is provided with a comprehensive picture of this up until now little studied
European river.
