Objective
Large-volume slope movements in mountainous areas are a persistent threat to human activity. In Europe alone, such movements annually cause loss of life as well as damage worth millions of ecus to urban infrastructure, forests and agricultural development. It is proposed to develop and test a computer-assisted system for hazard analysis, dedicated to quantifying the nsks from large-landslide phenomena. By uniquely combining new models of landslide dynamics and hazard evaluation, the project will enhance current knowledge of vulnerable landslide areas inside the European Union, and will have a strong export potential for application to hazardous regions worldwide. The key aims of the project are
(1) to develop a unifying physical model for large-landslide phenomena,
(2) to develop a dedicated Geographical Information System (GIS) for landslide hazard assessment,
(3) to develop design strategies for optimizing monitoring networks, and
(4) to establish baseline data for high-risk landslide areas, representative of the range of geological settings in Europe, and to use these data to demonstrate the working efficiency of the hazard-assessment programme.
Field input to the physical flow models will be obtained from deposits at Köfels (AT), Elm and Flims (CH), and Vaiont (IT), a selection that covers the main volumetric range of Holocene sturtzstroms in the EU. The designated high-risk areas are the Bad Goisern landslide in Austria, the Tessina landslide in Italy, and the Barranco de Tirajana landslide in Gran Canaria, Spain. These areas have been eselected because their settings represent the common range of geological settings in which sturtzstroms have occurred in the EU, they are currently unstable and pose a persistent threat to populated areas, their topography is suitable for sturtzstroms to form, and they are all popular tourist areas that cumulatively attract millions of visitors each year.
Even modest slope failures could thus have a major irnpact on local econornies. An essential strength of this proposal is that its four key aims are individually irnportant to landslide-hazard research Although the main goal is to complete the four aims together, the successful accomplishment of any one ofthem will yield significant results for future studies.
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