1. April 2025

Mountain regions in transition - the challenges of mountain hazards, risk and resilience management

WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLF

Datum: 1. April 2025, 10:30 - 11:30

Ort: SLF Davos, Hörsaal, and Zoom-Webinar

Organisiert von: WSL/SLF

Vortrag: Prof. Dr. Margreth Keiler, Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck and Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Science

Moderation: Nadine Salzmann

Sprache(n): English

Veranstaltungstyp: Distinguished Lectures

Zielpublikum: everbody interested in this topic

(The Zoom link will be activated shortly before the lecture.)

Despite increasing scientific knowledge and the implementation of hazard and risk management strategies, mountain societies continue to be affected by high loss events (e.g. events Grison, Valais, Ticino in the summer 2024). Natural hazard processes and society are subject to constant and interactive change – including climate change and economic crises –, influencing the dynamics of risks and the resilience of affected societies. The lecture will present focused studies on challenges of risk management under changing climatic conditions, extremes and cascading events as well as their interactions. Insights of these studies will be integrated in a model of coupled human-landscape systems to further develop a better understanding of risk and resilience evolution in mountain communities for an adaptive risk management.