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Assessing The Interaction Between Mountain Forests And Snow Avalanches At Nevados De Chillán, Chile And Its Implications For Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction, Alejandro Casteller, Thomas Häfelfinger, Erika Cortés Donoso, Karen Podvin, Dominik Kulakowski, Peter Bebi
Assessing The Interaction Between Mountain Forests And Snow Avalanches At Nevados De Chillán, Chile And Its Implications For Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction, Alejandro Casteller, Thomas Häfelfinger, Erika Cortés Donoso, Karen Podvin, Dominik Kulakowski, Peter Bebi
Geography
Gravitational natural hazards such as snow avalanches, rockfalls, shallow landslides and volcanic activity represent a risk to mountain communities around the world. In particular, where documentary records about these processes are rare, decisions on risk management and land-use planning have to be based on a variety of other sources including vegetation, tree-ring data and natural hazard process models. We used a combination of these methods in order to evaluate dynamics of natural hazards with a focus on snow avalanches at Valle Las Trancas, in the Biobío region in Chile. Along this valley, natural hazards threaten not only the local human …