Climate change and natural hazards in the Alps
Under the effects of climate change, Alpine mountainous regions are undergoing fast and well-perceptible evolutions, which are attracting the growing attention of people, scientists and managers. To cope better with the hazards and vulnerabilities specific to these territories, the current national...
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Institut de Géographie Alpine
2015-09-01
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| author | Benjamin Einhorn Nicolas Eckert Christophe Chaix Ludovic Ravanel Philip Deline Marie Gardent Vincent Boudières Didier Richard Jean-Marc Vengeon Gérald Giraud Philippe Schoeneich |
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| description | Under the effects of climate change, Alpine mountainous regions are undergoing fast and well-perceptible evolutions, which are attracting the growing attention of people, scientists and managers. To cope better with the hazards and vulnerabilities specific to these territories, the current national and European public policies in the Alpine countries now prescribe adapting natural hazard prevention to climate change. This paper provides a review of recent advances in knowledge on the perceived, measured and projected changes in i) climate patterns, ii) the cryosphere, hydrosystems and geomorphological dynamics on Alpine slopes, and iii) natural hazard evolution and induced risks at the scale of the French Alps. We give a brief overview of new results achieved by research, cooperation and capitalisation projects in these thematic fields during the programme period 2007-2013, which are available on databases, thematic knowledge platforms and observatories developed by different scientific and technical operators in the larger framework of the European Alpine arc. We illustrate this renewed synthesis by published examples of hydro-gravitational hazard activity chronicles, along with climate patterns identified as “predictors”. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-66be56c360fa432c8f82cffde91c52a12025-01-10T15:56:15ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-74262015-09-01103210.4000/rga.2878Climate change and natural hazards in the AlpsBenjamin EinhornNicolas EckertChristophe ChaixLudovic RavanelPhilip DelineMarie GardentVincent BoudièresDidier RichardJean-Marc VengeonGérald GiraudPhilippe SchoeneichUnder the effects of climate change, Alpine mountainous regions are undergoing fast and well-perceptible evolutions, which are attracting the growing attention of people, scientists and managers. To cope better with the hazards and vulnerabilities specific to these territories, the current national and European public policies in the Alpine countries now prescribe adapting natural hazard prevention to climate change. This paper provides a review of recent advances in knowledge on the perceived, measured and projected changes in i) climate patterns, ii) the cryosphere, hydrosystems and geomorphological dynamics on Alpine slopes, and iii) natural hazard evolution and induced risks at the scale of the French Alps. We give a brief overview of new results achieved by research, cooperation and capitalisation projects in these thematic fields during the programme period 2007-2013, which are available on databases, thematic knowledge platforms and observatories developed by different scientific and technical operators in the larger framework of the European Alpine arc. We illustrate this renewed synthesis by published examples of hydro-gravitational hazard activity chronicles, along with climate patterns identified as “predictors”.https://journals.openedition.org/rga/2878natural hazardsobservationprojectionadaptation |
| spellingShingle | Benjamin Einhorn Nicolas Eckert Christophe Chaix Ludovic Ravanel Philip Deline Marie Gardent Vincent Boudières Didier Richard Jean-Marc Vengeon Gérald Giraud Philippe Schoeneich Climate change and natural hazards in the Alps Revue de Géographie Alpine natural hazards observation projection adaptation |
| title | Climate change and natural hazards in the Alps |
| title_full | Climate change and natural hazards in the Alps |
| title_fullStr | Climate change and natural hazards in the Alps |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate change and natural hazards in the Alps |
| title_short | Climate change and natural hazards in the Alps |
| title_sort | climate change and natural hazards in the alps |
| topic | natural hazards observation projection adaptation |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/rga/2878 |
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