The effect of natural disturbances on the risk from hydrogeomorphic hazards under climate change

PROTECTED is a multi-factor and multi-level study on how impacts of climate change on natural disturbances will affect hydrogeomorphic hazards in protection forests. The project will elucidate the perception of stakeholders on the risk from changing disturbance regimes, and will use simulations to analyse the consequences of natural disturbances on runoff and sediment mobilisation from hillslopes for different forest development scenarios.