Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance

This book offers a cross disciplinary treatment of the rapidly growing field of integrated approaches in risk assessment in mountainous areas. All major aspects related to hazard and risk assessment, risk management, and governance are illustrated with a

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Theo van Asch Jordi Corominas Stefan Greiving Jean-Philippe Malet Simone Sterlacchini Editors

Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance

Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance

Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research Volume 34

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Theo van Asch • Jordi Corominas • Stefan Greiving Jean-Philippe Malet • Simone Sterlacchini Editors

Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance

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Editors Theo van Asch Department of Physical Geography Utrecht University The Netherlands Stefan Greiving Institute of Spatial Planning Technical University of Dortmund Germany

Jordi Corominas Department of Geotechnical Engineering Technical University of Catalonia Barcelona, Spain Jean-Philippe Malet University of Strasbourg CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg Strasbourg, France

Simone Sterlacchini National Research Council of Italy Institute for the Dynamic of Environmental Processes Milan, Italy

ISSN 1878-9897 ISSN 2213-6959 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-6768-3 ISBN 978-94-007-6769-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6769-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013944754 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Spri