Subtheme 12.6: Landslide Risk Management
Session Convener:
Dr. Mike Winter, Director, Winter Associates Limited, UK,
Email: winter@winterassociates.co.uk
Session Coordinators: Dario Peduto, Olga Mavrouli
Session Description
Impact-based risk assessment and forecasting provides the information needed to minimize the effects of landslides. in this framework the vulnerability of people, communities, structures, infrastructure is central in that.
Aim of the Session
This session aims at bringing together and exchange experiences on different aspects of landslide impacts and consequences, the relationships between the frequency and intensity of damaging events and the severity of their consequences, as well as to explore methods for the assessment of the vulnerability at multiple scales and from different perspectives from physical to social, economic, functional, and environmental.
Contributions on the concepts, methods and tools used to quantitatively evaluate vulnerability, risk, and loss due to landslide hazards and their secondary effects, as well as measures for their reduction are welcomed. Contributions on damage or destruction assessment and characterization, with reference to tangible and operating assets and human loss are encouraged. Empirical or numerical approaches for the dynamic spatio-temporal modelling of the impacts and the related uncertainties are of particular interest. Approaches that include, but are not limited to, innovative applications of remote sensing satellite data, ground based (e.g., optical fibers) data, laser scanner and unmanned aerial vehicle monitoring are also expected. Papers are also welcomed on the integration of vulnerability into systemic risk analysis.