GreenRisk4ALPs

Development of ecosystem-based risk governance concepts with respect to natural hazards and climate impacts – from ecosystem-based solutions to integrated risk assessment

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GreenRisk4ALPs


In natural hazard and risk reduction worldwide, but especially in the Alpine Space (AS), forests and mountain ecosystems are outstandingly important, and are increasingly considered on-par with technical measures or other prevention concepts. Forests efficiently protect against avalanches, torrents, landslides or rock-fall. However, so far, few strategies or policy concepts have been developed, on how to integrate forests in risk management and balance the numerous interests, demands and costs. Upcoming challenges in the Alps are dramatic: limitation of settlement space, increasing costs for the protection of settlements, more conflicts by increasing demands and expectations or critical development of economies like ‘monoculture tourism’. Without an adequate, territorially specific implementation of mountain forests in a risk mitigation strategy, sustainable development in the Alps will be hard to achieve.

Thus, the overarching goal of GreenRisk4Alps is the development of forest based concepts to support risk management with respect to natural hazards and climate impacts. GreenRisk4Alps promotes forests to be part of a sustainable risk management by balancing green, technical and preventive risk strategies. GreenRisk4Alps fosters mountain forests to be an immanent part of all spatially relevant mitigation and natural hazard risk reduction measures: in an active and preventive way. GR4Alps has a clear strategy to overcome conflicts and resistances in doing eco-system based disaster risk reduction: all relevant actors are involved and provided with new mitigation alternatives and science-based communication support.

All activities will be carried out within five selected study sites: Brenner region (AUT/ITA), Courmayeur (ITA), Kranjska Gora (SLO), Parc de Baronnie (FRA) and Oberammergau (GER). In order to foster a successful implementation process and to address national and transnational governance institutions, representatives of Eusalp, Alpine Convention and Cipra are part of the consortium.

Contact persons: Stefan Steger, Stefan Schneiderbauer

stefan.steger@eurac.edu; stefan.schneiderbauer@eurac.edu

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This video in english describes the GreenRisk4ALPs Work Package 3 “Decision oriented risk assessment”: the integration of different approaches for risk assessment and management.

Publications
Il Progetto GreenRisk4ALps
Cocuccioni S, Poratelli F, Blanc S, Brun F, Renner K, Steger S (2022)
Contribution in book
Consumo di suolo, servizi ecosistemici e green infrastructures: Metodi, ricerche e progetti innovativi per incrementare il Capitale naturale e migliorare la resilienza urbana
Risk-based decision support for protective forest and natural hazard management
Accastello C, Poratelli F, Renner K, James Laplante D'Amboise C, Teich M (2022)
Contribution in book
Protective Forests as Ecosystem-Based Solution for Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR)

https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99512

The project “GreenRisk4ALPs”
Cocuccioni S, Steger S, Renner K, Schneiderbauer S, Dalvit F, Defranceschi L, Diodoro O (2021)
Internet

More information: https://youtu.be/WzMMo8RYzY0

Rapid Risk Appraisal: a participatory approach to analyse risk management practices
Cocuccioni S, Steger S, Renner K (2021)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: GreenRisk4ALPs Mountain Forest Conference | Innsbuck-Online | 28.6.2021 - 29.6.2021

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18945

State-of-the-art on ecosystem-based solutions for disaster risk reduction: a review on the use of protection forests for disaster risk reduction in mountain areas
Cocuccioni S, Poratelli F, Accastello C, Steger S, Schneiderbauer S, Brun F (2020)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: EGU General Assembly 2020 | Vienna | 4.5.2020 - 8.5.2020

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14980

State-of-the-art on ecosystem-based solutions for disaster risk reduction: The case of gravity-driven natural hazards in the Alpine region
Poratelli F, Cocuccioni S, Accastello C, Steger S, Schneiderbauer S, Brun F (2020)
Journal article
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

More information: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22124 ...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101929

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/16303

Rapid risk appraisal: an approach to rapidly acquire information on natural hazard risks through local stakeholder involvement
Cocuccioni S, Steger S, Renner K, Zebisch M, Poratelli F, Accastello C, Brun F, Schneiderbauer S (2019)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: International Mountain Conference | Innsbruck | 8.9.2019 - 12.9.2019

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/12160

Integrating qualitative and quantitative data from stakeholders and modelling: the integrated risk assessment methodology used for the project “GreenRisk4Alps”
Cocuccioni S (2019)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Inquimus 2019 | Bonn | 26.11.2018 - 28.11.2019

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/19295

Investigating the role of alpine forests as Eco-DRR against gravitational hazards: a socio-economic analysis
Accastello C, Poratelli F, Renner K, Steger S, Cocuccioni S, Zebisch M, Schneiderbauer S, Brun F (2019)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: International Mountain Conference | Innsbruck | 8.9.2019 - 12.9.2019

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/12136

Natural hazard risk reduction in the Alpine region: an assessment of alternative protection measures under different environmental scenarios
Cocuccioni S, Steger S, Crespi A, Zebisch M, Schneiderbauer S (2019)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: ClimRisk19 - 7 Conferenza Annuale della Societá Italiana per le Scienze del Clima | Trento | 23.10.2019 - 25.10.2019

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/12249

Investigating the role of alpine forests as Eco-DRR against gravitational hazards: a socio-economic analysis
Accastello C, Poratelli F, Renner K, Steger S, Cocuccioni S, Zebisch M, Schneiderbauer S, Brun F (2019)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: International Mountain Conference | Innsbruck | 8.9.2019 - 12.9.2019

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/12135

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