Publication details
Priestorová diferenciácia dostupnosti a ohrozenia zdrojov vody v okresoch SR
| Title in English | Spatial differentiation of water sources accessibility and threat in Slovak districts |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Geografický časopis |
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| Field | Hydrology and limnology |
| Keywords | protection of water sources;regional types;cluster analysis;Slovak Republic |
| Description | The objective of the paper was to identify spatial relations between water sources, the rate of potential water resource hazard and also the typology of this relation, which can serve as a starting point for solving the problems with drinking water accessibility, supply and protection. Seventy-one Slovak districts were described by means of 7 parameters concerning water resource accessibility and hazard. For the use of cluster analysis, the principal component analysis (PCA) and setting of principal components on the file of 71 districts was performed. Orthogonal components were used as mutually independent variables of cluster analysis. Several variants of the hierarchical agglomerative method were tested. As a result, 14 regional types of water resource accessibility and hazard in the territory of the Slovak Republic were identified. |