This contribution provides an overview of previous and current research on the main topics related to rockfall.

Rockfall is an extremely rapid process involving long travel distances. Due to these features, when an event occurs, the ability to take evasive action is practically zero and, thus, the risk of injury or loss of life is high. Damage to buildings and infrastructure ...

In France, Risk Prevention Plans (PPR) are standard documents that determine risk areas and building authorisations for ten-year periods. This paper is about the PPR revision of the town of Veyrier-du-Lac (France), where is implemented a new methodology based ...

This paper presents results of an iterative sequence of tests and improvements of a coupled rockfall and forest dynamics model with focus on the rockfall module.

It is still uncertain what a mountain forest should look like to provide optimal protection against rockfall. Knowledge is limited due to the slow reaction of mountain forests to the rapid environmental and socio-economic changes that have occurred in the ...

Only a few rockfall simulation models take into account the mitigating effect of existing forest cover. The objective of our study was to improve the generic rockfall simulation model RockyFor, which does take the effect of forest stands into account, thereby ...

<p>This paper is about rockfall experiments on a forested slope in the French Alps and the analysis of nine recordings of nine impacts causing instantaneous breakage of Abies alba Mill. Trees.</p>

One of the valuable services a forest in the Alps provides is protection against natural hazards such as rockfall. Adequate management of a mountain forest that protects downslope areas against impacts of rockfall requires insight into the dynamics of the ...

<p>The accuracy of model output increases with a decreasing support size of the input data, due to the increase of detail. This paper examines whether this is true for various spatial models developed for simulating rockfall. We analyze the effect of the support ...