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Introduction: The components of Risk Governance

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This introductory chapter discusses key issues related to aspects of hazards and risks of natural processes in Mountain area's and discusses the framework of risk governance, which aims to integrate these elements.

Hazard assessment intends to make an estimate of the spatial and temporal occurrence and magnitude of dangerous natural processes. The chapter describes different methods to assess hazard in a qualitative and quantitative way including all kind of data driven statistically approaches and the use of coupled hydro mechanical deterministic models.

Since statistical approaches, will meet difficulties in future predictions in case of changes of the environmental factors, like land use and climate, special attention is given to the use of physical deterministic models which makes it possible in theory to do predictions about hazard without historical data sets.

An overview is given of the different approaches to come to a final risk assessment. For a risk assessment information on temporal, spatial and intensity probabilities of the endangering processes is required as well as an identification of the vulnerability of the society for the impact of these processes. Vulnerability assessment, which forms a key element in these procedures still knows a lot of difficulties.

Current research on natural risks is fragmented and isolated with natural sciences and engineering disciplines on the one hand and societal sciences on the other hand. The complex, socio-political nature of risk calls for an integrated approach. A discussion is presented about the concept of risk governance, which tries to combine all the physical, technical, socio-economic and political aspects to take the right decisions for a safe and sustainable society.

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Abbreviations

IUGS:

International Union of Geological Sciences

GIS:

Geographical Information Systems

ALARP:

As Low As Reasonably Practicable

EIA:

Environmental Impact Assessments

EWS:

Early Warning Systems

DEM’s:

Digital Elevation Models

LIDAR:

LIght Detection And Ranging

F-N curves:

Frequency vs. Number of fatality’ graphs

UN:

United Nations

UN-ISDR:

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

EC:

European Commission

IRGC:

International Risk Governance Council

RG:

Risk Governance

RA:

Risk Assessment

RM:

Risk Management

RC:

Risk Communication

MORLE:

Multiple Occurrence Regional Landslide Events

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    Cees van Westen

  3. Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences, Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech, Jordi Girona 1-3, D-2 Building, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

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  4. Department of Geography and Regional Research, Geomorphic Systems and Risk Research Unit, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Greiving, S., van Westen, C., Corominas, J., Glade, T., Malet, JP., van Asch, T. (2014). Introduction: The components of Risk Governance. In: Van Asch, T., Corominas, J., Greiving, S., Malet, JP., Sterlacchini, S. (eds) Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6769-0_1

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