European Forestry Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds

Working Group 2: Hazard and Disaster Risk Management in Mountains

Participating countries: Albania, Germany, Slovenia, Turkey

Hazard and Disaster Risk Management in Mountains Strategy Paper 

Core themes:

• Risk resilience and capacity development.
• Maintenance of structural protection measures: keeping functionality under life-cycle conditions.
• Hazard zone mapping for efficient prevention work with special consideration of forests
• Standardisation in the field of natural disasters and risk management
• DRM in relationship to green economy and forest-watersheds

Outputs:

• Risk resilience and capacity development
• Maintenance of structural protection measures: keeping functionality under life-cycle conditions
• Hazard zone mapping for efficient prevention work with special consideration of forests
• Standardisation in the field of natural disasters and risk management
• DRM in relationship to green economy and forest-watersheds

Documents:

• Publication International Exchange of Know-how and Practices - EFC/FAO working group <<Hazards and Disaster Risk Management in Mountains>> 
  
  
• 1st workshop (Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval - France, 2014)
  • "Hazard zone mapping and the integration of the forest protection function". 
• 2nd workshop (Salzburg - Austria, 2016)
  • "Woody debris in Alpine rivers and torrents".
  • Presentations: Austria, Bavaria, France, South Tyroland Switzerland. .
• 3rd workshop (Argentine - France, 2017)
  • "Sediment and woody debris transport regulation in torrential catchments: case study of an Alpine Torrent". 
  • Annexes of the report: Annex2, Annex 3, Annex 4, Annex 5, Annex 7, Annex 8and Annex 9.
• 4th workshop (Traunkirchen - Austria, 2018) 
  • "Effect of forest and check dams on water surface, bedload input and debris earth flow in Alpine watersheds".
  • Annexes of the report: Annex 1, Annex 2, Annex 3, Annex 4,Annex 5, Annex 6, Annex 7, Annex 8,
• 5th workshop (Grésivaudan Valley - France, 2019)
  • "Effect of forest and check dams on water surface, bedload input and debris flow in alpine watersheds". 
  • Annexes of the report: Annex 2, Annex 3a, Annex 3b, Annex 4, Annex 5 and Annex 6.
• 6th workshop (online, 2022)
  • Loss of protection function of forests due to storm events with a focus on avalanches