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GravitationaL hazards Amplified by Degradation of protection forests and Extreme precipitation episodes
- Project Leader
- Lexer Manfred Josef, Project Leader
- Duration:
- 02.05.2016-01.11.2018
- Programme:
- Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) - Individual Project
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Project partners
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AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Donau City Strasse 1, 1220 Wien Wien, Austria.
Contact person: Philip Leopold;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
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Federal Environment Agency, Spittelauer Lände 5, A-1090 Wien, Austria.
Contact person: Ivo Offenthaler;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
- Staff
- Rammer Werner, Project Staff
- Irauschek Florian, Project Staff
- Schellander Paul, Project Staff
- BOKU Research Units
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Institute of Meteorology and Climatology
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Institute of Silviculture
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- Subproject(s):
GravitationaL hazards Amplified by Degradation of protection forests and Extreme precipitation episodes - part Meteorology (GLADE-Meteorology)
- Funded by
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Klima- und Energiefonds, Leopold-Ungar-Platz 2 / Stiege 1 / 4.OG / Top 142, 1190 Wien, Austria
- Abstract
- GLADE will assess the protective effect of forests in Austria under different climate change scenari-os and quantify the vulnerability of infrastructure (roads, railways, electricity grids, settlement are-as) in relation to gravitational hazards (landslides, rockfall, avalanches). The effect of alternative forest management strategies on the residual vulnerability will be explored.
Core elements of GLADe are:
(1) Assessing the impacts of climate change on protective services of Austrian forests via pro-tection forest modelling emphasizing the role of disturbance regimes (current/alternative management)
(2) Assessing the impacts of climate change on landslide risk via intensified extreme precipita-tion regime (different climate scenarios)
(3) Pulling impacts together for hot spot mapping
(4) Assessing vulnerability of infrastructure for entire Austria at district level (72 administrative units) and elaborate response strategies to maintain forest protection functions.
The assessment approach will extend until 2110 and focus on 3 time slices (2030, 2050, 2085).
- Keywords
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Risk research;
Soil mechanics;
Forestry;
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