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Technical Aspects of Snow Avalanche Risk Management: Resources and...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Canadian Avalanche Association
Date: Jan 2024
Location: Canada

Technical Aspects of Snow Avalanche Risk Management provides a framework for avalanche risk assessment and mitigation, as well as resources and guidelines for avalanche practitioners in Canada....

Aspects techniques de la gestion des risques d’avalanche: Ressources...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Canadian Avalanche Association
Date: Jan 2024
Location: Canada

Le présent guide, Aspects techniques de la gestion des risques d’avalanche, définit un cadre d’application pour l’évaluation et l’atténuation des risques d’avalanche et contient des ressources et...

Defense structures in avalanche starting zones
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Date: Feb 2024
Location: Switzerland

The technical guideline regulates the planning of snow supporting structures and the dimensioning of separated structures. The procedures and criteria for type approval, together with the...

Living with Natural Hazards
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Publisher(s): Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Date: Feb 2024
Location: Switzerland

This document concerns the approach adopted to natural hazards, in particular flood protection (floods, bank erosion, debris flows), avalanche protection, mass movements (fall, slide and flow...

Good Practice Guidelines for Safer, More Sustainable Construction
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Architecture Sans Frontieres
Date: Nov 2011
Location: India

Mrs. Sarah Ernst from Architecture Sans Frontières (ASF) presented the draft version of the guide "Reducing RIsk and Promoting Sustainability", with a case study of...

Focus on Pakistan: Lessons from the floods
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): DARA
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

Pakistan is highly vulnerable to earthquakes, avalanches, floods and political conflict. This century it has faced recurrent emergencies characterised by extensive displacement. A major earthquake...