Water-Related Natural Disasters: Strategies to Deal With Debris Flows: The Case of Tschengls, Italy

2008 ◽  
pp. 221-241
Author(s):  
Walter Gostner ◽  
Gian Reto Bezzola ◽  
Markus Schatzmann ◽  
Hans-Erwin Minor
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Debris Flows

scholarly journals After 2000 Stože Landslide: Part II - Development of landslide disaster risk reduction policy in Slovenia

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Matjaž Mikoš
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Debris Flows ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Hazard And Risk ◽  
The Village ◽  
Term Response ◽  
Landslide Disaster

More than 20 years after the 2000 Stože Landslide that devastated the village of Log pod Mangartom in NW Slovenia, this paper gives a review of the short-term response to and disaster relief provided for this catastrophic event, and further summarises this event’s effects on Slovenia’s efforts to improve its system of preventing natural disasters caused by various forms of landslides. Recent advances in reducing landslide disasters in Slovenia after 2000 are presented, including hazard and risk maps for landslides, rockfalls, and debris flows based on modern methodologies. Also, a short overview is given of Slovenian international cooperation on natural disasters. The developments in the landslide disaster risk reduction policy have unfortunately been less obvious in terms of the state taking preventive measures by adopting relevant legislation for adequate spatial planning.

scholarly journals Natural Disasters Versus Anthropogenic Activities in Nepal Himalayas: Case Study from Ghatte Khola , Myagdi

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narayan Gurung
Keyword(s):  
Debris Flow ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Debris Flows ◽  
Flash Flood ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Alluvial Fan ◽  
Electric Power Station ◽  
Natural Dynamics ◽  
The Right

In the Himalayas, geo-hazards are natural events occurring more or less frequently and of a greater or lesser magnitude. But when natural hazards affect people and property, then it becomes disasters. It’s believed that natural disasters as such do not exist. Everything is just natural hazard and anything can turn into disasters due to anthropogenic activities. Thus, natural phenomenons are hazards while disasters are anthropogenic. In this regard, a case study was being conducted in the Ghatte Khola (Dana) of Myagdi District in Western Central Nepal, where in a context of growing population and haphazard construction of infrastructures, natural dynamics have turned into disasters. The Ghatte Khola is an intermittent, right bank tributary of the Kali Gandaki, which behaves occasionally as a debris flow, in relation with slope instabilities that affect its upstream catchment. The debris flows are usually triggered during heavy cloudbursts, and can cause damages and losses downstream, along the wide alluvial fan built at the tributary junction and upon which Dana village (Myagdi District) is settled. Inhabitants are aware of this ephemeral, yet threatening behaviour of the stream that may also affect the Kali Gandaki valley upstream from the confluence (Lat. 28°32'22" N and Long. 83°39'03" E). The Ghatte Khola is often affected by debris flows bringing sediment fluxes that are eroding its banks every year. A motor bridge was being built over Ghatte Khola near the confluence with Kali Gandaki and further, a large electric power station is being built on the right bank of Ghatte Khola. Sadly, the bridge was washed away by the flash flood in Ghattekhola on 25th May 2019. This study was focused on vulnerability of these man made infrastructures and their future on Ghatte Khola debris flow dynamics, with hazard that might occasionally transform into disaster.  

scholarly journals Cultural Heritage Sites in Shiga Prefecture in Danger of Natural Disasters

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Yuko Ishida ◽  
◽  
Ryoichi Fukagawa ◽  
Kazunari Sako ◽  
Ikuo Yasukawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Debris Flows ◽  
Structural Damage ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Geological Discontinuity ◽  
Earth Flows ◽  
Sediment Disaster

Natural disasters threaten all human efforts, from everyday living to cultural heritage site preservation. To protect them, such sites must first be identified. We conducted two studies on cultural monuments designated by the law as The National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties in Shiga prefecture to evaluate potential of damage from natural disasters – first, focusing on cultural monument damage via a bibliographic survey and, second, looking at potential of damage via geographic information systems (GIS) combining earthquake and flood hazard maps, sediment disaster warning maps, and an architectural monuments map. We also analyzed the geological aspects of historical sediment disasters. From our findings, we conclude the following: • Most structural damage was due to typhoons. • The eight sites most potentially subject to earthquake damage are concentrated on the west coast of Lake Biwa. • By type, 8 sites are threatened by earth flows, 5 by debris flows, and 2 by landslides. • Many sites historically subject to debris flows and earth flows are within 1 kilometer of a geological discontinuity or an active fault.

When Mother Earth Rises Up

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Sacchi ◽  
Paolo Riva ◽  
Marco Brambilla
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Willingness To Help ◽  
Mother Earth

Anthropomorphization is the tendency to ascribe humanlike features and mental states, such as free will and consciousness, to nonhuman beings or inanimate agents. Two studies investigated the consequences of the anthropomorphization of nature on people’s willingness to help victims of natural disasters. Study 1 (N = 96) showed that the humanization of nature correlated negatively with willingness to help natural disaster victims. Study 2 (N = 52) tested for causality, showing that the anthropomorphization of nature reduced participants’ intentions to help the victims. Overall, our findings suggest that humanizing nature undermines the tendency to support victims of natural disasters.

Optimizing Allocation for Emergency Resources in Natural Disasters

ICCREM 2020 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruining Ma ◽  
Qingpeng Man
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters

PENERAPAN ALGORITMA K-MEANS UNTUK PENGELOMPOKAN DAERAH RAWAN BENCANA DI INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Amril Mutoi Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Central Java ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Disaster Data ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All

Indonesia is a country located in the equator, which has beautiful natural. It has a mountainous constellation, beaches and wider oceans than land, so that Indonesia has extraordinary natural beauty assets compared to other countries. Behind the beauty of natural it turns out that it has many potential natural disasters in almost all provinces in Indonesia, in the form of landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, Mount Meletus and others. The problem is that the government must have accurate data to deal with disasters throughout the province, where disaster data can be in categories or groups of regions into very vulnerable, medium, and low disaster areas. It is often found when a disaster occurs, many found that the distribution of long-term assistance because the stock for disaster-prone areas is not well available. In the study, it will be proposed to group disaster-prone areas throughout the province in Indonesia using the k-means algorithm. The expected results can group all regions that are very prone to disasters. Thus, the results can be Province West java, central java very vulnerable categories, provinces Aceh, North Sumatera, West Sumatera, east Java and North Sulawesi in the medium category, provinces Bengkulu, Lampung, Riau Island, Babel, DIY, Bali, West Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, Maluku, North Maluku, Papua, west Papua including of rare categories. With the results obtained in this study, the government can map disaster-prone areas as well as prepare emergency response assistance quickly. In order to reduce the death toll and it is important to improve the services of disaster victims. With accurate data can provide prompt and appropriate assistance for victims of natural disasters.

Social innovation and natural disasters: the "Casa Italia" Plan

2017 ◽  
pp. 87-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Pagliacci ◽  
Margherita Russo ◽  
Laura Sartori
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Social Innovation
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