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 ...

Coppice forest stands can play a key protective role on active rockfall slopes in mountainous regions. This paper aims at quantifying their protection function and at explaining the role of different stand parameters in this function.

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 ...

This study reveals that disturbance induced under natural conditions triggers more intense and more widespread anatomical responses than that induced under artificial stimuli, and that experimental laboratory tests considerably underestimate tree response. ...

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 ...

Forest dynamics have long-term impacts on the effectiveness of mountain forests in providing protection against natural hazards, but these are difficult to study because of the long time periods involved. We addressed this difficulty using simulation models, ...

<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 ...