Ch. Bonnard - Identification and Mitigation of Large Landslide Risks in Europe: Advances in Risk Assessment

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IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION OF LARGE LANDSLIDE RISKS IN EUROPE

IMIRILAND PROJECT

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Advances in Risk Assessment

Ch.Bonnard, F.Forlati & C.Scavia, editors

European Commission

Fifth Framework Programme

IMIRILAND Project

A.A.BALKEMA PUBLISHERS LEIDEN/LONDON/NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA/SINGAPORE

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The IMIRILAND Project Impact of large landslides in the mountain environment: identification
and mitigation of risk was financed by the European Commission between 2001 and 2003 within
the Fifth Framework Programme Environment Generic (Contract No EVG1-CT-2000-00035),
as well as by the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science (Contract OFES No 00.0361),
for which our thanks are expressed.

Management of the Project

Administrative Coordinator: Vincenzo COCCOLOARPA Piemonte, Torino.
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Claudio SCAVIAPolitecnico di Torino.
Editorial Board: G.Amatruda, Ch.Bonnard, M.Castelli, G.Moletta, M.Morelli,
L.Paro, F.Piana and G.Susella.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Sincere acknowledgements have to be expressed to all the persons who significantly contributed
to the IMIRILAND Project as authors, as well as to those whose names do not appear as authors
in this book:

Technical assistants: L.Beccani, E.Fusetti, L.Mallen, H.Sarri, F.Tamberlani (ARPA Piemonte);
A.Allodi, S.Marello (Politecnico di Torino).

Research assistants: J.Moreno Lapiedra, R.Rojas Fuentes (Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de
Lausanne); R.Russo, A.Stphan (CETE Lyon).

Special thanks are also expressed to Prof. Oldrich Hungr and to Dr. Pedro Basabe who contributed
to chapter 10, to K.Barone who mastered all the difficulties of the final editing, as well as to
L.Martinenghi Stuckrath who revised the English form of the texts. The administrative staff in charge
of the coordination at ARPA Piemonte and Politecnico di Torino also deserves a vote of thanks.

We are equally grateful to all the communal authorities and to their consultants, in particular
those of Ceppo Morelli, Rosone, Schilienne and Sedrun, who provided interesting information
for the development of this research.

Finally, the editors as well as the participants to the IMIRILAND Project are deeply indebted to
Marta Castelli of Politecnico di Torino and Noemi Giordano of ARPA Piemonte for their fundamental part in the success of the project. Marta, by her continuous involvement in the scientific
coordination tasks as well as in the planning and management of the different phases of the
research and the diffusion of its results, and Noemi, by her careful and precise implication in the
administrative aspects of the project that have to be assumed in order to ensure its completion.
Noemi also fulfilled the difficult task of translating some chapters.

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The following institutions participated in the IMIRILAND Project: