Impact of large landslides in the mountain environment : identification and mitigation of risk (IMIRILAND)

Objective

The project focuses on aspects of management of risk in the case of large landslides, in its scientific, technical and and-planning aspects. Ten large landslide sites have been selected in the countries involved in the project where, geological, geomechanical and monitoring data already exist. These data, after a suitable organisation, are the basis for the following phases of the project. New methods or new applications of the existing methods are worked out in order to obtain the scenarios of the landslides evolution. Reference is made to geological, numerical, statistical and neural network based methods. Then the developed methodologies are applied to the management of the endangered landslide zones. Actions for risk mitigation are proposed on the basis of risk assessment and the legal and economical frameworks. Dissemination of risk management methodologies among the users is a major task of the project.

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-7. - RTD activities of a generic nature

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

AGENZIA REGIONALE PER LA PROTEZIONE AMBIENTALE DEL PIEMONTE

Address

Corso Unione Sovietica, 216
10134 Torino (Turin)
Italy

Participants (5)

LABORATOIRE CENTRAL DES PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES

France

Address

Boulevard Lefebvre 58
75732 Paris

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Italy

Address

Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24
10129 Torino (Turin)

SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LAUSANNE

Switzerland

Address

Epfl - Ecublens
1015 Lausanne

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA

Spain

Address

S/n,jordi Girona 1-3, Modul D2, Campus Nord
08034 Barcelona

VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Austria

Address

Karlsplatz 13
1040 Wien