WA5 - Risk management

The scientific and technical objectives of Area 5 are two-fold: (1) carry out a state-of-the-art review, propose new mitigation and prevention measures, and produce a web-based system or harmonised toolbox of technically and economically appropriate (and innovative) prevention and mitigation measures based on experience and expert judgment throughout, and outside, Europe; and (2) develop and test a risk-communication and stakeholder-led participatory process for choosing prevention and mitigation measures that are most appropriate from the technical, economic, environmental and social perspectives.

Area 5 will be the culmination of the research and provide the tools required by the call: a tested and well-documented framework with methodology and procedures for an effective implementation of landslide risk management in all of European countries, with an accepted toolbox for the selection of the most appropriate set of mitigation and prevention measures and processes for risk communication, and where risk reduction targets can be explored.