In context of global climate change and the continuous extension of settlement areas in the Alps especially due to tourism, an increasing conflict between land use and natural hazard prevention can be observed. This also includes deep seated landslides, which ...

Following a major rockfall event in 1987, two types of protection measures were taken in the village Saint Martin le Vinoux (French Alps). Firstly, technical measures using civil engineering were installed, and secondly, a forest management intervention to ...

<p>The new tectonic map of the Alps is based on the combination of purely structural data with criteria regarding paleogeographical affiliation and/or tectonometamorphic evolution. The orogenic evolution of the Alps is discussed using a combination of maps ...

<p>Debris flow is a common process in the Swiss Alps and in other mountainous parts of the world. The understanding of debris-flow behaviour is essential to assess the hazards they present. An important approach towards improving the knowledge of debris-flow ...

The understanding of the subduction-related processes benefited by the studies of the high-pressure (HP) metamorphic rocks from the western Alps. The most stimulating information was obtained from the inner part of the western Alpine belt, where most tectonic ...