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Title: A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO QUANTIFY HOW ERRORS IN FOREST DATA AFFECT AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPS IN NORWAY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: J. Paul McLean, Dieter Issler, Kjersti G. Gisnås
Description: Forests play a major role in the mitigation of avalanche risk in Norway, but the regulations surrounding the management of “protection forests” ar...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O4.3.pdf
Keywords: protection forest, uncertainty, avalanche, risk analysis
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Title: INTENSITY, RETURN PERIOD AND RISK: INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL PARAMETERS IN SPECIFIC CASES OF NATURAL HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DYNAMICS OF SNOW AVALANCHES.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Sergi Riba Porras, Carles García-Sellés, Vincente Medina de Iglesias
Description: When planning road infrastructure projects in high mountain regions prone to avalanche hazard, crucial first step involves analysing the characteristi...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.20.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, avalanche protections, hazard, risk analysis.
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Title: TOWARDS SYSTEMATIC PATTERNS AND AVALANCHE RISK ANALYSIS WITH CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND EVENT DETECTION ON AVALANCHE SLOPES WITH A NOVEL SENSOR ARRAY BOX IN AUSTRIA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Markus Hoffmann, Michael Brauner, Christan Rachoy, Thomas Dolleschal, Johannes Leubolt, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Austria's largest railway infrastructure operator, OEBB-Infrastruktur AG aims to ensure safe and reliable operation of the rail network with minimal c...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O8.4.pdf
Keywords: monitoring, avalanche slopes, event detection, systematic patterns, risk analysis
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Title: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE MOBILE SENSOR ARRAY BOX FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF AVALANCHE SLOPES AND ROBUST EVENT DETECTION
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Markus Hoffmann, Michael Brauner, Christan Rachoy, Thomas Dolleschal, Johannes Leubolt, Ingrid Reiweger
Description: Due to climate change natural hazards such as avalanches, mudflows, and floods are an increasing threat to transport infrastructure and settlements. T...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.6.pdf
Keywords: monitoring, avalanche slopes, event detection, systematic patterns, risk analysis
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Title: CHALLENGES IN USING THE AVALANCHE HAZARD INDEX – A CASE STUDY FROM THE BNSF RAILWAY AVALANCHE PROGRAM, ESSEX, MONTANA, USA
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Adam M. Clark, Richard W. Steiner, David Hamre
Description: The Avalanche Hazard Index (AHI) was originally developed by Canadian Peter Schaerer in the 1970s and 1980s to assess the avalanche risk to highways m...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.43.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard index (ahi), bnsf railway, risk analysis, risk communication
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Title: Prioritizing avalanche mitigation measures for the Trans-Canada Highway through Glacier National Park
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Chris Argue, Ryan Buhler, Jeff Goodrich, Bruce Jamieson, Alan Jones, Jaime Sanderson
Description: The Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) through Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park (GNP) is a critical transportation corridor within British Columbia, and a...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche risk, highway, risk analysis, project management.
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Title: Framework of Risk Management for Backcountry Travel in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: D.M. McClung
Description: The terms risk analysis, risk assessment and risk management are used loosely in avalanche applications. The overall structure of risk management is w...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O11.03.pdf
Keywords: risk management, risk assessment, risk analysis, slab avalanche, backcountry
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Title: Decision Making In Avalanche Terrain the Extended 3*3 Method
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François-Xavier Cierco, and Sébastien Escande
Description: Safety of outdoor activities in avalanche terrain is mainly addressed thanks to risk management procedures or individual behaviour analyses. It result...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-12.pdf
Keywords: decision process, risk analysis, 3*3 method, human factors, avalanche
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Title: Econome Develop – A Software Tool for Assessing Natural Hazard Risk and Economic Optimisation of Mitigation Measures
Date: 2012
Authors: Michael Bründl
Description: In most countries, public money is used to finance the protection of human life, material assets and infrastructure against natural hazards. Limited f...
Object ID: issw-2012-639-643.pdf
Keywords: risk analysis, economic efficiency, risk-calculation tool, risk management
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Title: Vulnerability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures Submitted to Out-of-Plane Loadings: Application to a Protective Structure Impacted by Snow Avalanches
Date: 2012
Authors: Ousset I., Bertrand D., Brun M., Limam A., Naaim M.
Description: In the global warming context, more and more people are threathen by natural hazards. This paper focuses on the physical vulnerability assessment of R...
Object ID: issw-2012-703-706.pdf
Keywords: risk analysis, reinforced concrete, avalanche simulation
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