Objective
SafeLand will develop generic quantitative risk assessment and management tools and strategies for landslides at local, regional, European and societal scales and establish the baseline for the risk associated with landslides in Europe, to improve our ability to forecast landslide hazard and detect hazard and risk zones. The scientific work packages in SafeLand are organised in five Areas: Area 1 focuses on improving the knowledge on triggering mechanisms, processes and thresholds, including climate-related and anthropogenic triggers, and on run-out models in landslide hazard assessment; Area 2 does an harmonisation of quantitative risk assessment methodologies for different spatial scales, looking into uncertainties, vulnerability, landslide susceptibility, landslide frequency, and identifying hotspots in Europe with higher landslide hazard and risk; Area 3 focuses on future climate change scenarios and changes in demography and infrastructure, resulting in the evolution of hazard and risk in Europe at selected hotspots; Area 4 addresses the technical and practical issues related to monitoring and early warning for landslides, and identifies the best technologies available both in the context of hazard assessment and in the context of design of early warning systems; Area 5 provides a toolbox of risk mitigation strategies and guidelines for choosing the most appropriate risk management strategy. Maintaining the database of case studies, dissemination of the project results, and project management and coordination are defined in work packages 6, 7 and 8.
Field of science
- /social sciences/sociology/governance/crisis management
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2008-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
N-0855 Oslo
Norway
Participants (26)
08034 Barcelona
80125 Napoli
45060 Orleans
50121 Florence
2361 Laxenburg
1049 Brussels
28040 Madrid
54636 Thessaloniki
20126 Milano
80539 Muenchen
73100 Lecce
20141 Milano
84084 Fisciano Sa
7522 NB Enschede
8092 Zuerich
1015 Lausanne
15010 Ricaldone Al
75794 Paris
WC2R 2LS London
1030 Wien
1015 Lausanne
RG40 3GA Wokingham
78344 Bucharest
1000 Ljubljana
64000 Pau
75008 Paris