Quantifying Rockfall Risk Reduction by Forests
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Hazards".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 June 2019) | Viewed by 371
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the net-benefit of nature-based solutions for reduction of risks related to rockfall; landslides and channel processes such as bank erosion; large wood; torrential floods and debris flows; advancing innovative practices in forest – natural hazard risk management, especially for the protection of critical infrastructure in the European Alps
Interests: natural hazards; modelling; protection forest; eco-DRR; quantitative risk analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In steep, mountainous terrain, forests play an important role in protecting people and infrastructure from rockfall. An effective management of this natural means of protection and an efficient allocation of ressources requires a realistic quantification of its protection effect against rockfall. Since the late nineties, scientific evidence on the risk reduction provided by forests has increased, and three-dimensional simulation models taking trees into account have been developed. However, open questions remain regarding the energy reduction capacity of trees, the representation of trees in simulation models, the effect of natural disturbances, and management on the long-term efficiency of forests, as well as methods for a realistic economic valuation of the protection effect of forests. For this Special Issue, we would like to invite you to submit articles about your recent work on rockfall and forest interactions. This can include experimental research or case studies dealing with tree mechanics in relation to rockfall impacts, rockfall experiments on forested slopes, modelling of rockfall through forests, rapid assessment tools, and methods for valuing the rockfall risk reduction provided by forests. Key topics to be addressed are as follows:
- Block energy reduction in relation to tree species, anchorage in different soils, wood decay
- Realistic integration of the forest structure in trajectory models
- Realistic prediction of rockfall release probabilities based on field observations of deposited rocks and tree damages
- Quantification of the influence of disturbances (e.g. forest fires, pest outbreaks, windstorm) on the long-term protective effect of forests
- Case studies showing various methods for the valuation of the rockfall risk reduction provided by forests
We also encourage you to approach us by sending a short abstract outlining the purpose of your research and the principal results obtained, in order to verify at an early stage if the contribution you intend to submit is in line with the objectives of the Special Issue.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Luuk Dorren
Dr. Christine Moos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Rockfall
- Protection forests
- Trajectory models
- Rockfall risk analysis
- Tree impact
- Disturbances
- Eco-DRR
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