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Slaymaker, Olav; Embleton-Hamann, Christine

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511627057.003

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“…The countries in the eastern European Alps have a long tradition in hazard mitigation, but climate and socio-economic change are major future challenges. Population and socio-economic trends in the eastern European Alps in the recent century (Bätzing 2003;Slaymaker & Embleton-Hamann 2009) reflect a shift from agriculture to service and leisureoriented industries (Bätzing 1993;Keiler 2004). This trend is also observed in the development of tourist infrastructure in hazard-prone sites (Fuchs & Bründl 2005;Keiler et al 2005), which can result in high and increasing losses if extreme events occur, as illustrated by the 2005 floods, and as has happened in the Alps during recent decades (e.g.…”

Section: (A) Implication For Natural Hazard and Risk Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the European Alps in particular, GCMs cannot account for the climatological effects of high relief owing to the coarse spatial resolution of the climate models and their insensitivity to sub-grid scale variability (Calanca et al 2006). In addition, climate feedbacks are significant in mountain settings and have implications for local patterns of snow preservation and melt and maintenance of permafrost (Vavrus 2007;Slaymaker & Embleton-Hamann 2009). These are significant areas of concern that highlight the complexity of mountain landscape systems and their land-surface (geomorphological) responses to future climate change.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Climate change and geomorphological hazards in the eastern European Alps

Keiler

Knight

Harrison

2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

174

118

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Climate and environmental changes associated with anthropogenic global warming are being increasingly identified in the European Alps, as seen by changes in long-term highalpine temperature, precipitation, glacier cover and permafrost. In turn, these changes impact on land-surface stability, and lead to increased frequency and magnitude of natural mountain hazards, including rock falls, debris flows, landslides, avalanches and floods. These hazards also impact on infrastructure, and socio-economic and cultural activities in mountain regions. This paper presents two case studies (2003 heatwave, 2005 floods) that demonstrate some of the interlinkages between physical processes and human activity in climatically sensitive alpine regions that are responding to ongoing climate change. Based on this evidence, we outline future implications of climate change on mountain environments and its impact on hazards and hazard management in paraglacial mountain systems.

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Section: (A) Implication For Natural Hazard and Risk Managementmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Climate change and geomorphological hazards in the eastern European Alps

Keiler

Knight

Harrison

2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

174

118

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“…European mountain regions therefore provide for a significant proportion of human settlements and areas used for economic purposes and recreation. Mountain regions are particularly prone to changing environmental conditions, and they show a greater range of susceptibility to disturbance than many other landscapes (Slaymaker and Embleton-Hamann 2009). Probably the most important reason to focus on hazards, vulnerability and risk in mountain regions is the recognition that global changes of important magnitude, in particular climate and land-use change, are already underway Seneviratne et al 2012).…”

Section: Geomorphology and Society In Mountain Regionsmentioning

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Vulnerability and Exposure to Geomorphic Hazards: Some Insights from the European Alps

Keiler

Fuchs

2016

Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences

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Geomorphological processes and society are connected through a diverse set of relationships and feedbacks. One of the main connections concerns the impact of hazardous geomorphic processes on society that lead to economic and life losses. Due to the extent of geomorphological activity in mountain regions, and the considerable proportion of these that are occupied and used by people, mountains are a particular focus in geohazard and interdisciplinary risk research. Taking the European Alps as an example, a short overview indicates the fundamentals of mountain hazard processes and highlights trends in the number of different hazard types in Austria. Climate and environmental change as well as their influence on mountain hazard processes are discussed with a focus on the cryosphere and hydrosphere. Key issues in developing a more thorough understanding of increasing losses and future risk are exposure and vulnerability. Initial insights on exposure are provided by an analysis of the past evolution and current situation in the context of spatial and temporal distribution of values at risk; this is illustrated with reference to Austria. The importance of vulnerability for risk reduction is internationally acknowledged but somewhat less studied and, indeed, seems to be hidden between the different foci of disciplines. Innovative methods for vulnerability analysis (documentation, vulnerability curves) are presented contributing to close this gap. Overall, mountain hazard research highlights the importance of connecting geomorphology and the socio-economy in order to contribute to the most challenging questions of more sustainable societies.

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“…Recent experience with oil and gas pipeline development is also fraught. Increasingly urban development has intensified processes of mass movement and river flooding (Evans 1982, Slaymaker andEmbleton-Hamann 2009).…”

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“…As population densities increase and land utilization becomes more intensive, land use vies with hydroclimate as a primary driver (Lambin andGeist 2006, Slaymaker andEmbleton-Hamann 2009). Mining, dredging, some agriculture and certain kinds of forestry operations are extractive processes that can undermine land surface stability; highways and railroads and urbanization are additive processes that modify the terrestrial surface; accelerated soil erosion, nuclear waste and sanitary landfill translocates sediment, solutes and nutrients; and grazing and accelerated chemical and biological changes associated with forestry and agriculture transform the terrestrial surface (Koch 1995, Lambin andGeist 2006).…”

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A Review of Three Significant Geohazards in the Canadian Cordillera: the Case of River Floods, Debris Flows/Floods, and Debris/Rock Avalanches

Slaymaker

2016

IJGE

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Abstract:Research into sudden-onset geohazards, such as river floods, debris flows/floods and debris/rock avalanches is prominent in literature on the Canadian Cordillera. The unresolved question is the relative importance of river floods, debris flows/floods and debris/rock avalanches over shorter and longer time scales and at smaller and larger spatial scales. River flooding is the costliest geohazard at regional scale and over century time scales but debris/rock avalanches are the deadliest at individual slope scale and over seasonal time scale. In terms of work done on the landscape, debris flows/floods are the most pervasive geohazard and have a huge influence on the long-term moulding of the landscape but figure less prominently in terms of fatalities and cost. Intensified land use, such as forestry, mining, agriculture and urbanization, is the primary reason for the increase in the cost of geohazards to society over the past three decades but climate change adds further uncertainties to the assessment of future geohazards.

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Mountains

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Climate change and geomorphological hazards in the eastern European Alps

Climate change and geomorphological hazards in the eastern European Alps

Vulnerability and Exposure to Geomorphic Hazards: Some Insights from the European Alps

A Review of Three Significant Geohazards in the Canadian Cordillera: the Case of River Floods, Debris Flows/Floods, and Debris/Rock Avalanches

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