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We develop basic principles and software tools for risk assessment and for evaluating the effectiveness and economic efficiency of permanent and temporary protective measures against alpine natural hazards. The analysis and visualisation of temporal and spatial changes in risks as a result of climate change and socio-economic change as a basis for an effective risk communication and risk management form another focus of our work. The aim of our research is to strengthen society and thus increase its resilience to the impacts of alpine natural hazards.

We put our findings into practice, participate in the training of natural hazard experts as well as young scientists and maintain a lively national and international exchange.

The topics of risk management, risk communication and resilience are focal points of the research centre CERC.

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Auf Basis der Gefahrenhinweiskarte Lawinen des Kantons Graubünden wird für zwei Gebiete in der Landschaft Davos eine Risikohinweiskarte erarbeitet.

Development of a method and a tool for risk indication mapping of mass movements along the railway network of SBB.

Auch in Zukunft sollen die knapp 65'000km des Schweizer Wanderwegnetzes möglichst gefahrlos begangen werden können. Eine Literatursynthese soll die für das Wanderwegwesen relevanten Naturgefahren identifiziert und Auswirkungen einer Klimaveränderung abschätzen.

The aim of this project is to understand how increased temperature and precipitations will affect avalanche flow behavior, in particular flow transitions, and assess consequences for hazard mapping. For this purpose, we use experimental data from Vallée de la Sionne test site and DEM modeling.

The goal is to develop a multi-hazard risk assessment framework which is able to deal with several conjoint or cascading hazards as they can be expected as consequence of climate change in high mountain regions.

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