SAFELAND

The SafeLand project has three main objectives: (1) to provide policy-makers, public administrators, researchers, scientists, educators and other stakeholders with an improved harmonised framework and methodology for the assessment and quantification of landslide risk at local, regional and European scales; (2) to evaluate the changes in risk pattern caused by climate change, human activity and policy changes; and (3) to provide guidelines for choosing the most appropriate risk management strategies, including risk prevention and mitigation measures.

Guidelines related to landslide triggering processes and run-out modelling; development and testing of several empirical methods for predicting the characteristics of threshold rainfall events for triggering of precipitation-induced landslides, and development of an empirical model for assessing the changes in landslide frequency as a function of changes in the demography; guidelines for landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk assessment and zoning; new methodologies for physical and societal vulnerability assessment; identification of landslide hazard and risk hotspots for Europe; regional and local climate model simulations over selected regions of Europe at high spatial; guidelines for use of remote sensing techniques, monitoring and early warning systems; development of a prototype web-based ‘toolbox’ of innovative and technically appropriate prevention and mitigation measures; case histories and ‘hotspots’ of European Landslides have been collected and documented; research on stakeholder workshops and participatory processes to involve the population exposed to landslide risk in the decision-making process for choosing the most appropriate risk mitigation measure(s).