Pan‐European Landslide Risk Assessment: From Theory to Practice

Caleca, Francesco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0509-0442; Lombardo, Luigi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-7288; Steger, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0886-5191; Tanyas, Hakan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-2140; Raspini, Federico; Dahal, Ashok ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3269-5575; Nefros, Constantinos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2075-4112; Mărgărint, Mihai Ciprian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-0885; Drouin, Vincent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5340-0484; Jemec‐Auflič, Mateja; Novellino, Alessandro ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9682-9056; Tonini, Marj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3592-8920; Loche, Marco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0756-2175; Casagli, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8684-7848; Tofani, Veronica. 2025 Pan‐European Landslide Risk Assessment: From Theory to Practice. Reviews of Geophysics, 63 (1), e2023RG000825. 10.1029/2023RG000825

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Abstract/Summary

Assessing landslide risk is a fundamental requirement to plan suitable prevention actions. To date, most risk studies focus on individual slopes or catchments. Whereas regional, national or continental scale assessments are hardly available because of methodological and/or data limitations. In this contribution, we present an overview of all requirements and limitations in landslide risk studies across all spatial scales, by means of a hybrid form that combines elements of original research with the comprehensive characteristics of a review study. The review critically analyses each component in the landslide risk analysis providing a detailed explanation of their state-of-the-art, with dedicated sections on susceptibility, hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. To put the theoretical framework to test, we also dive into a case study, expressed at the continental scale. Specifically, we take the main European mountain ranges and provide the reader with a textbook example of risk assessment for such a large territory. In doing so, we take into account issues associated with cross-national differences in landslide mapping. As a result, we identify landslide-prone European landscape and explore the associated possible economic consequences (human settlements and agricultural areas). We also analyze the population at risk during daytime and nighttime. Moreover, a modern view of the problem is explored in the form of how risk outcomes should be delivered to master planners and geoscientific personnel alike. Specifically, we convert our output into an interactive Web Application (https://pan-european-landslide-risk.github.io/) to include notions of scientific communication both to a large public as well as to a technical audience.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/2023RG000825
ISSN:	8755-1209
Additional Keywords:	IGRD
Date made live:	26 Feb 2025 16:06 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538950

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