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Comparison of two rock fall hazard mapping methodologies based on the French and Swiss guidelines

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

Landslide hazard mapping aims at providing very useful information for urban planning and for risk analysis. Though landslide risks represent a common threat to human lives and properties worldwide, the procedures applied for hazard and risk assessment are ...

2010

Influence of national rockfall hazard guidelines on land-use planning

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

Basic principles of living with natural risks are established according to the experience of each country in facing this problem. The strategies adopted for evaluating rockfall hazards and for reducing the potential risk they represent may therefore lead t ...

2010

Systemic risk in the network industries: is there a governance gap?

Marc Laperrouza, Ian Robert Bartle

Systemic risks and hazards have become increasingly significant features of modern industrial society of which the network industries form a vital element. The idea of systemic risk, however, is much less prominent in the network industries compared to ban ...

2009

Climate change and natural hazards in the Grisons

Michael Lehning

On account of the current global warming, climate researchers warn of a possible increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather conditions in the future. As an alpine canton, the Grisons are particularly exposed to such events. In the article, ...

2009

Differences in experiences in rockfall hazard mapping in Switzerland and Principality of Andorra

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

The need to cope with rockfall hazard and risk led many countries to adopt proper strategies for hazard mapping and risk management, based on their own social and political constraints. The experience of every single country in facing this challenge provid ...

2009

Rockfall protection as an integral task

Vincent Labiouse, Thomas Vogel

Among the different natural hazards, rockfall has an important place even though other natural hazards could affect more people or have greater consequences. The phenomenon may be further classified according to the size of the largest blocks and the total ...

2009

Handling Objects by Their Handles

Sahar El Khoury

This paper presents an efficient method to decide robust grasps given new objects using example-based learning. A robust grasp is a stable grasp, suitable for object manipulation. Adaptability to object manipulation is ensured by imitating the human choice ...

2008

RISK21 - Coping with Risk due to Natural Hazards in the 21st Century

Laurent Vulliet

To be able to take effective and efficient decisions leading to transparent and comparable results between different risk situations, a consistent and systematic risk management process has to be followed (in this context called “integral risk management”) ...

Taylor & Francis2006

La négociation des risques technologiques

Marc Audétat

This thesis considers technological risks and their constitution as public problems. It supports that the main difference among risks is not to see between proved risks and uncertain risks, on the basis of the objective knowledge, but rather separates risk ...

EPFL2004

Evaluation de stratégies pour la gestion du risque sismique du bâtiment

Vincent Pellissier

This document presents the results of a research on seismic risk management. It echoes the worldwide trend of increasing awareness of the importance of this risk and represents a contribution to the effort of research. In order to manage risk in a rational ...

EPFL2004