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- Title: Exemplary Actions of Education for Increasing the Resilience of Communities to Natural Hazards in High Mountain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Paola Dellavedova, Océane Vibert, Luca Pitet, Jean Pierre Fosson, Valerio Segor, Alessandro Benati, Elisabetta Ceaglio, Nathalie Durand, Antoine Brulport
- Description: In response to actual climatic variations and global warming, highlighted by the scorching
summers of 2003 and 2015, major alpine faces within the Mo...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.02.pdf
- Keywords: mountaineering, natural hazards, education, resilience, risks, prévriskhautemontagne project
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- Title: Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Vulnerability and Risk Management of an Arctic Settlement Under Changing Climate - a Challenge to Authorities and Experts
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Steinar Bakkehøi, Christian Jaedicke
- Description: Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago, is facing most types of natural hazards under a changing Arctic climate. The cata...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O16.02.pdf
- Keywords: arctic environment, climate change, natural hazards, mitigation, research, consulting
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- Title: Risk-Based Avalanche Program Design
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Grant Statham, Brian Gould
- Description: Avalanche safety programs around the world are diverse and varied, challenged to forecast avalanche hazard and manage avalanche risk in a variety of e...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.01.pdf
- Keywords: risk, hazard, probability, consequence, exposure, vulnerability, education
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- Title: Decrease of Snow Avalanches Activity and Proliferation of Wet Snow Avalanches in French Alps Under Climate Warming
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mohamed Naaim, Nicolas Eckert
- Description: The processing of the data, including cross analysis, of two well documented databases of snow and avalanches in France Alps (namely EPA avalanches ch...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.36.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, climate change, natural hazard, risk
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- Title: Real-Time Detection of Natural Snow Avalanches by Infrasonic Array Network (IAN) on December 2012 in Valtournenche – Aosta Valley (IT)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Durand N., Ulivieri G., Marchetti E., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Ripepe M., Segor V.
- Description: Since 2009 and within the Operational programme Italy-France (Alps ALCOTRA) – Projects “DynAval†(2009-2012) and “Map3“...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-33.pdf
- Keywords: infrasonic array, snow avalanches, real-time monitoring
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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: On Indicator Path Avalanches for Local Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Claudia Alig, Christoph Mitterer
- Description: Avalanches are clear signs of instability and thus often considered as the best predictor for further events. In fact, avalanches that release at the...
- Object ID: issw-2012-051-054.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, snow depth,prediction methods, avalanche awareness
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- Title: Incorporating Terrain into Public Avalanche Information Products
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Karl Klassen
- Description: Public avalanche information has traditionally focussed on avalanche forecasts that provide avalanche danger ratings and contain information about wea...
- Object ID: issw-2012-209-213.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, public safety, avalanche hazard, avalanche skills, snowpack conditions
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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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- Title: Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction of Snow Avalanche Activity Using Dendrogeomorphological Method in Bucegi Mountains-Romanian Carpathians
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Mircea Voiculescu, Alexandru Onaca, Patrick Chiroiu
- Description: Bucegi Mountains are located on the eastern part of Southern Carpathians (Romanian Carpathians). Considering the high altitudes (over 2500 m) and mass...
- Object ID: issw-2012-729-735.pdf
- Keywords: dendrochronology, avalanche hazard, snow avalanche path
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- Title: Safety Concept for Hazards Caused by Ice Avalanches from the Whymper Hanging Glacier in the Mont Blanc Massif
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Marco Vagliasindi, Massimo Broccolato
- Description: The Whymper glacier is a hanging glacier located on the south face of the Grandes Jorasses (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy). Combined snow and ice avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-055.pdf
- Keywords: ice avalanche, safety concept, hazard map
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- Title: The Diversities of Large Slushflows Illustrated by Selected Cases
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Erik Hestnes, Krister Kristensen
- Description: Rapid mass movement of water-saturated snow, usually known as slushflow or slush
avalanche, is a major natural hazard in Norway. The destructive forc...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-066.pdf
- Keywords: natural hazard, large slushflows, triggering mechanisms, flow regimes, human challenges
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- Title: The Permasense Remote Monitoring Infrastructure
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Jan Beutel, Stephan Gruber, Stefanie Gubler, Andreas Hasler, Matthias Keller, Roman Lim, Igor Talzi, Lothar Thiele, Christian Tschudin, Mustafa Yücel
- Description: The PermaSense project, a joint computer science and geoscience project, investigates the influence of climate change on permafrost and specifically t...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0187-0191.pdf
- Keywords: permafrost, remote sensing, wireless sensors, natural hazard early warning
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- Title: Dynamic Avalanche Modeling in Natural Terrain
- Date: 2009
- Authors: J.T. Fischer, J. Kowalski, S.P. Pudasaini, S. A. Miller
- Description: The powerful avalanche simulation toolbox RAMMS (Rapid Mass Movements) is based on a depth-averaged hydrodynamic system of equations with a Voellmy-Sa...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0448-0453.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, dynamics, modeling, natural terrain, curvature
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- Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping - 30 Years Experience in Austria
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser
- Description: Natural hazards are increasingly a limiting factor in mountainous countries in connection with the growing population and economical development. Peop...
- Object ID: issw-2006-314-321.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, austrian service in torrent and avalanche control, natural hazard
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