2016 INTERPRAEVENT - Conference Proceedings

13th INTERPRAEVENT Congress 2016

Lucerne, Switzerland
30 May - 2 June 2016

1 Volume (Deutsch, English, Francais, Italiano)
ISBN 978-3-901164-24-8

Editors

Gernot Koboltschnig (Managing Editor),
Florian Rudolf-Miklau (Editor "Risk Governance and Policies"),
Dominique Laigle (Editor "Data Acquisition and Modelling"),
Markus Stoffel (Editor "Hazard and Risk Assessment"),
Matjaz Mikoš (Editor "Hazard and Risk Mitigation") and
Hans Kienholz (Editor "Emergency Management")

Committee

Ulrik Doomas, Paolo Simonini, Andreas von Poschinger,Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Josef Schneider, Johannes Hübl, Bruno Mazzorana, Didier Richard and Fritz Zollinger

Publications
Risk Governance and Policies
Practical Management of Debris-flow-prone Torrents in Taiwan
Hsiao-Yuan Yin, Chen-Yang Lee, Chyan-Deng Jan and Meei-Ling Lin
Pages: 186 - 193
Chances and Challenges in the Field of Residual Flood-Risk and Risk Communication: Ideas from Bavaria
Ronja Wolter-Krautblatter, Andreas Rimböck, Tobias Hafner, Christian Wanger and Christoph Oberacker
Pages: 176 - 185
The Zurich flood resilience alliance. A new approach for partnership to effective disaster risk reduction
Michael Szoenyi and Linda Freiner
Pages: 168 - 175
What makes a successful flood control project? - An evaluation of project procedure and risk based on the perspectives of Swiss communes.
What makes a successful flood control project? - An evaluation of project procedure and risk Hannes Suter, Luzius Thomi, Raoul Kern, Matthias Künzler, Conny Gusterer, Andreas Zischg, Rolf Weingartner, Olivia Martius and Margreth Keiler
Pages: 159 - 167
Public prevention of natural hazards in Swiss law: responsibilities and fields of action
Roland Norer, Mark Govoni, Gregor Kost, Cornel Quinto, Barbara Schielein, Lukas Widmer and Christian Wulz
Pages: 96 - 103
Water management as a part of civil engineering sector in Slovenia
Jošt Sodnik, Blaž Kogovšek and Matjaž Mikoš
Pages: 141 - 149
Method for a risk based and transparent allocation formula of the remaining costs applied to the protection measures project "Laui Sörenberg", municipality of Flühli, Switzerland.
Roland Stalder, Karl Grunder and Guido Küng
Pages: 150 - 158
Dealing with gravitational natural hazards: challenges for risk management and
Florian Rudolf-Miklau, Kanonier Arthur, Thomas Glade and Stix Elisabeth
Pages: 131 - 140
Local Conditions and the Quality of Expert Networks: A Case Study of Avalanche Risk Prevention Practices
Renate Renner and Gerhard Lieb
Pages: 121 - 130
Gender mainstreaming in disaster risk reduction – a step towards the visibility of women in DRR
Catrin Promper and Maria Patek
Pages: 104 - 111
The central challenge of climate change adaptation for Alpine natural hazard management: Incorporation of future change of the damage potential
Klaus Pukall and Sylvia Kruse
Pages: 112 - 120
Risk-based spatial planning - findings from two case studies
Roberto Loat, Reto Camenzind, Esther Casanova and Eva Frick
Pages: 87 - 95
Examples of urban Flood Risk Management in Styria
Rudolf Hornich and Tanja Schriebl
Pages: 70 - 78
Flood Risk Reduction through Object Protection Measures - Benefit Analysis on Catchment
Matthias Huttenlau, Stefan Achleitner, Benjamin Winter, Manuel Plörer, Michael Hofer and Felix Weingartner
Pages: 79 - 86
Audit "Flood – how prepared are we" – a method for local authorities to improve local risk management
Paul Geisenhofer
Pages: 52 - 60
Risk-Dialogue – a challenge
Rene Graf
Pages: 61 - 69
A Gender-sensitive Analysis of Natural Disasters - The Case of St. Lorenzen in Austria
Doris Damyanovic, Karin Weber, Britta Fuchs and Christiane Brandenburg
Pages: 43 - 51
From the restoration of French mountainous areas to their global management: historical overview of the Water and Forestry Administration actions in public forests
Simon Carladous, Guillaume Piton, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Félix Philippe, Régis Nepote-Vesino, Yann Quefféléan and Olivier Marco
Pages: 34 - 42
Integrated Risk Management – Identify, Evaluate and Manage Natural Risks
Gian Reto Bezzola and Roberto Loat
Pages: 18 - 26
Evaluating the Effectiveness and the Efficiency of Mitigation Measures against Natural Hazards
Michael Bründl, Reto Baumann, André Burkard, Fabian Dolf, André Gauderon, Eva Gertsch, Peter Gutwein, Bernhard Krummenacher, Bernard Loup, Adrian Schertenleib, Nicole Oggier and Linda Zaugg-Ettlin
Pages: 27 - 33
Hazard and Risk Mitigation
People and buildings vulnerability to floods in mountain areas
Luca Milanesi, Marco Pilotti and Roberto Ranzi
Pages: 791 - 798
Actions for the Maintenance and Lifespan prolongation of SABO Facilities
Hisashi Watanabe and Toshio Mori
Pages: 862 - 870
Controlled and efficient bed load management by means of variable drain locks embedded in a crownclosed large drain sediment control dam
Arthur Vogl, Mathias H. Luxner and Hubert Agerer
Pages: 853 - 861
Flood losses in Switzerland compared with hazard maps
Luzius Thomi, Matthias Künzler and Raoul Kern
Pages: 845 - 852
Physical modelling optimization of a filter check dam in Switzerland
Sebastian Schwindt, Giovanni De Cesare, Jean-Louis Boillat, Philippe Bianco and Anton J. Schleiss
Pages: 828 - 836
Settlement dynamics in floodplains: from assessing future flood hazard exposure to developing spatial adaptation measures
Walter Seher and Lukas Löschner
Pages: 837 - 844
Sediment Management in Alpine Catchments: Area of conflicts between protection needs, complexity of waste law and quality goals for water bodies
Florian Rudolf-Miklau and Susanne Mehlhorn
Pages: 818 - 827
Bedload trapping in open check dam basins - measurements of flow velocities and depositions patterns
Guillaume Piton, Ségolène Mejean, Costanza Carbonari, Jules Le Guern, Hervé Bellot and Alain Recking
Pages: 808 - 817
Modern flood protection and rehabilitation concepts at pre-alpine alluvial rivers
Michael Mueller, Peter Billeter, Matthias Mende, Manuel Zahno and Adrian Fahrni
Pages: 799 - 808
The impact of debris flows on structures: practice revisited in light of new scientific results
Dominique Laigle and Mathieu Labbé
Pages: 782 - 790
Flood protection concept against enourmous debris flow scenarios
Rolf Künzi, Martin Amacher, Oliver Markus Hitz, Serena Liener, Christian Tognacca and Markus Zimmermann
Pages: 771 - 781
Flood corridors to handle residual risk
Markus W. Klauser, Christian Willi, Werner Fessler and Josef L.A. Eberli
Pages: 763 - 770
Study of landslide run-out and impact on protection structures with the Material Point Method
Francesca Ceccato and Paolo Simonini
Pages: 744 - 752
Property protection against flooding shown on a complex practical example
Thomas Egli, Daniel Sturzenegger and Pierre Vanomsen
Pages: 753 - 762
Planning of risk-based rockfall mitigation measures using 3D rockfall simulations
Thomas Bickel and Markus Hodel
Pages: 726 - 734
Protection structures against natural hazards: from failure analysis to effectiveness assessment
Simon Carladous, Jean-Marc Tacnet and Mireille Batton-Hubert
Pages: 735 - 743
Freeboard computation of near critical flows
Niki Antonina Beyer Portner, Patrick Fellay, Karim Laribi and Jean-Louis Boillat
Pages: 718 - 725
Integrated bed-load and driftwood retention in Kien - Findings from model-based testing and the 2011 flood
Warin Bertschi, Guido Lauber, Jürg Speerli and Armin Hemmi
Pages: 708 - 717
Data Acquisition and Modelling
M-AARE - Coupling atmospheric, hydrological, hydrodynamic and damage models in the Aare river basin, Switzerland
Andreas Paul Zischg, Guido Felder, Rolf Weingartner, Juan José Gómez-Navarro, Veronika Röthlisberger, Daniel Bernet, Ole Rössler, Christoph Raible, Margreth Keiler and Olivia Martius
Pages: 444 - 451
Monitoring unstable parts in the ice-covered Weissmies northwest face
Lukas E Preiswerk, Fabian Walter, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Giulia Barfucci, Jan Beutel, Peter G Burkett, Pierre Dalban Canassy, Martin Funk, Philippe Limpach, Emanuele Marchetti, Lorenz Meier and Fabian Neyer
Pages: 434 - 443
Monitoring sediment fluxes in alpine rivers: the AQUASED project
Gianluca Vignoli, Silvia Simoni, Francesco Comiti, Andrea Dell'Agnese, Walter Bertoldi, Roberto Dinale, Rudi Nadalet, Pierpaolo Macconi, Julius Staffler and Rudolf Pollinger
Pages: 426 - 433
A specially developed side weir in the framework of an integral flood protection concept including a hydrological monitoring system
Josef Schneider, Rudolf Schmidt, Matthias Redtenbacher and Franz Brenner
Pages: 406 - 415
Powder Snow Avalanche Engineering: New Methods to Calculate Air-Blast Pressures for Hazard Mapping
Lukas Stoffel, Stefan Margreth, Mark Schaer, Marc Christen, Yves Bühler and Perry Bartelt
Pages: 416 - 425
Determining future evolution of landslides from the past: the historical evolution of shallow landslides in the upper Cassarate catchment (Southern Swiss Alps)
Christian Ambrosi, Samuel Arrigo, Claudio Castelletti and Cristian Scapozza
Pages: 396 - 405
Experimental Study on Effect of Houses on Debris-Flow Flooding and Deposition in Debris Flow Fan Areas
Kana Nakatani, Megumi Kosugi, Yuji Hasegawa, Yoshifumi Satofuka and Takahisa Mizuyama
Pages: 378 - 386
Bedload transport simulation with the model sedFlow: application to mountain rivers in Switzerland
Dieter Rickenmann, Martin Böckli, Florian U.M. Heimann, Alexandre Badoux and Jens M. Turowski
Pages: 387 - 395
Critical Rainfall Conditions Triggering Shallow Landslides or Debris Flows in Torrents – Analysis of Debris Flow events 2012, 2013 and 2014 in Austria
Markus Moser, Stefan Janu and Susanne Mehlhorn
Pages: 370 - 377
Nationwide assessment of the climate sensitivity of natural hazard processes in Switzerland A fuzzy logic approach
Peter Mani and Stéphane Losey
Pages: 345 - 355
Defining sample size and strategy for dendrogeomorphic rockfall reconstructions
Pauline Morel, Daniel Trappmann, Christophe Corona and Markus Stoffel
Pages: 356 - 369
Integration of remote and terrestrial monitoring data for analysing alpine geomorphic processes – examples from Switzerland and Italy
Volkmar Mair, David Mosna, Robert Kenner, Giulia Chinellato, Marcia Phillips, Claudia Strada and Benni Thiebes
Pages: 336 - 344
Analysis and classification of bedload transport events with variable process characteristics
Andrea Kreisler, Markus Moser, Johann Aigner, Rolf Rindler, Michael Tritthart and Helmut Habersack
Pages: 327 - 335
Analysis of flood related processes at confluences of steep tributary channels and their receiving streams – 2d numerical modelling application
Johannes Kammerlander, Bernhard Gems, Michael Sturm and Markus Aufleger
Pages: 319 - 326
Characteristics of debris flow vibration signals in Shenmu, Taiwan
Yi-Min Huang, Chung-Ray Chu, Yao-Min Fang, Ming-Chang Tsai, Bing-Jean Lee, Tien-Yin Chou, Chen-Yang Lee, Chen-Yu Chen and Hsiao-Yuan Yin
Pages: 306 - 307
An Effective Camera Based Water level recording Technology for Flood Monitoring
Issa Hasan, Thomas Hies, Ebi Jose, Rudolf Duester, Marcus Sattler and Matthias Satzger
Pages: 290 - 295
Flood protection at Zurich main station: physical model experiments
Florian Hinkelammert, Volker Weitbrecht and Robert M. Boes
Pages: 296 - 305
Adaption and further development of the numerical solution in the avalanche simulation model SamosAT
Matthias Granig, Peter Sampl, Andreas Kofler, Jan-Thomas Fischer and Philipp Jörg
Pages: 284 - 289
Slide-induced impulse waves in mountainous regions
Helge Fuchs and Robert M. Boes
Pages: 265 - 273
Monitoring and management of a huge landslide in a built-up area induced by the excavation of deep highway tunnels
Guido Gottardi, Giuseppe Ricceri, Alberto Selleri, Paolo Simonini, Daniela Salucci and Paola Torsello
Pages: 274 - 283
Modelling of individual debris flows using Flow-R: A case study in four Swiss torrents
Florian von Fischer, Margreth Keiler and Markus Zimmermann
Pages: 257 - 258
Terrestrial radar interferometry for snow glide activity monitoring and its potential as precursor of wet snow avalanches.
Rafael Caduff, Andreas Wiesmann, Yves Bühler, Claudia Bieler and Philippe Limpach
Pages: 239 - 248
Earthquake-triggered landslides in Switzerland: from historical observations to the actual hazard
Donat Fäh, Jan Burjanek, Carlo Cauzzi, Remo Grolimund, Stefan Fritsche and Ulrike Kleinbrod
Pages: 249 - 256
Distributed acoustic monitoring to secure transport infrastructure against natural hazards - requirements and new developments
Michael Brauner, Arnold Kogelnig, Ulrich Koenig, Günther Neunteufel and Hanna Schilcher
Pages: 231 - 238
Exploiting damage claim records of public insurance companies for buildings to Increase knowledge about the occurrence of overland flow in Switzerland
Daniel Benjamin Bernet, Rolf Weingartner and Volker Prasuhn
Pages: 221 - 230
A comparison of physical and computer-based debris flow modelling of a deflection structure at Illgraben, Switzerland
Catherine Berger, Marc Christen, Jürg Speerli, Guido Lauber, Melanie Ulrich and Brian W. McArdell
Pages: 212 - 220
Deciphering dynamics and magnitude of a recent debris-flow disaster in Vratna Dolina
Juan Antonio Ballesteros Canovas, Milan Lehotsky, Karel Silhan, Sladek Jan, Anna Kidova, Radek Tichavsky, Pavel Stastny and Markus Stoffel
Pages: 196 - 202
Modeling rockfall trajectories with non-smooth contact/impact mechanics
Perry Bartelt, Werner Gerber, Marc Christen and Yves Bühler
Pages: 203 - 211
Hazard and Risk Assessment
The case study of Badouzih rockfall in northern Taiwan: mechanism, numerical simulation and hazard assessment
Ching-Fang Lee, Ting-Chi Tsao, Lun-Wei Wie and Wei-Kai Huang
Pages: 698 - 705
Periglazial Hazard Indication Map: A Basic Instrument in Prospective Hazard Management
Daniel Tobler, Peter Mani, Rachel Riner, Serena Liener, Nils Hählen and Ricarda Bender-Gàl
Pages: 688 - 697
Efficient risk assessment of Norwegian railways combining GIS and field studies
Heidi Hefre, Kjetil Sverdrup-Thygeson, Unni Eidsvig and Øyvind Armand Høydal
Pages: 678 - 687
Landslide, flood and snow avalanche risk assessment for the safety management system of the railway Trento - Malè - Marilleva
Gherardo Sonzio, Fulvio Bassetti, Ezio Facchin, Ettore Salgemma and Lucia Simeoni
Pages: 670 - 677
A probabilistic approach to flood hazard assessment and risk management in floodplains considering levee failures
Silvia Simoni, Gianluca Vignoli, Bruno Mazzorana, Claudio Volcan and Francesco Maria Cesari
Pages: 657 - 669
Natural hazard induced risk: a dynamic individualised approach for calculating hit probability on networks
Esther Schönthal and Margreth Keiler
Pages: 683 - 646
Flood Risk Map for the Canton of Zurich
Christian Schuler, Thomas Egli, Mirco Heidemann and Manuela Häni
Pages: 647 - 656
Backwater rise due to driftwood accumulation
Isabella Schalko, Dieter Brändli, Lukas Schmocker, Volker Weitbrecht and Robert Michael Boes
Pages: 628 - 637
ProtectBio - Evaluation of the effects of protection forests on natural hazards due to gravity
Arthur Sandri, Benjamin Lange, Stéphane Losey and Bernhard Perren
Pages: 619 - 627
Potential large wood-related hazards at bridges: the D?ugopole bridge in the Czarny Dunajec River, Polish Carpathians
Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva, Bartlomiej Wyzga, Pawel Mikus, Maciej Hajdukiewiczd and Markus Stoffel
Pages: 610 - 618
Sediment input from debris flows into mountain rivers: an event-based perspective
Dieter Rickenmann, Markus Gerber and Martin Böckli
Pages: 601 - 609
Rockfall Susceptibility Maps in Styria considering the protective effect of forest
Herwig Proske and Christian Bauer
Pages: 592 - 600
Human induced risk dynamics - a quantitative analysis of debris flow risks in Sörenberg, Switzerland (1950 to 2014)
Margreth Keiler and Benjamin Fischer
Pages: 571 - 579
Maps of pluvial floods and their consequences: a case study
Martin Mergili, Andreas Tader, Thomas Glade, Stefan Jäger, Clemens Neuhold and Heinz Stiefelmeyer
Pages: 580 - 591
Management of glacier floods in the Bernese Oberland
Nils Hählen, Oliver Hitz and Damian Stoffel
Pages: 553 - 560
New recommendations for the assessment of river bank erosion hazards
Lukas Hunzinger, Annette Bachmann, Ralph Brändle, Paul Dändliker, David Jud and Mario Koksch
Pages: 561 - 570
Integrated natural hazards protection concept Vitznau LU – Case study Plattenbach
Benjamin Hohermuth, Christoph Graf and Jörn Heilig Page: 535 - 543
Pages: 535 - 543
Unveiling the avalanche activity in the Upper Goms Valley (Switzerland) over the past 400 years using tree-ring records
Sébastien Guillet, Markus Stoffel and Christophe Corona
Pages: 544 - 552
Event-based rapid landslide mapping including estimation of potential human impacts on landslide occurrence: a case study in Lower Austria
Karin Gokesch, Thomas Glade and Joachim Schweigl
Pages: 513 - 524
Integral protection concept "Bielzug"
Nicole Oggier, Christoph Graf, Reynald Delaloye and André Burkard
Pages: 525 - 534
Investigation of the flood hazard of the Nuclear Power Plant KKG by earthquake induced dam breaks waves at the River Aare
Davood Farshi, Michael Ballmer, Donat Job and Brigitte Faust
Pages: 494 - 502
Spatial and temporal exposure of elements at risk in Austria
Sven Fuchs, Andreas Zischg and Margreth Keiler
Pages: 503 - 512
Channel widening during extreme floods: how to integrate it within river corridor planning ?
Francesco Comiti, Margherita Righini, Laura Nardi, Ana Lucìa, William Amponsah, Marco Cavalli, Nicola Surian, Lorenzo Marchi, Massimo Rinaldi and Marco Borga
Pages: 477 - 486
Key results of the Swiss wide natural hazard risk assessment on national roads
Luuk Dorren and Philippe Arnold
Pages: 487 - 493
Flood volume estimation in Switzerland using synthetic design hydrographs – a multivariate statistical approach
Manuela Irene Brunner, Olivier Vannier, Anne-Catherine Favre, Daniel Viviroli, Paul Meylan, Anna Sikorska and Jan Seibert
Pages: 468 - 476
Unraveling the spatio-temporal debris-flow activity on a forested cone in the Kyrgyz Range: implications for hazard assessment
Juan Antonio Ballesteros Canovas, Vitalii Zaginaev, Markus Stoffel and Sergei Erokhin
Pages: 461 - 467
Understanding the impact of climate change on debris-flow risk in a managed torrent: expected future damage versus maintenance costs
Juan Antonio Ballesteros Canovas, Markus Stoffel, Klaus Schraml, Christophe Corona, Andreas Gobiet, Satyanarayana Tani, Sven Fuchs, Franz Sinabell and Roland Kaitina
Pages: 454 - 460
Emergency Management
Strategies for the reduction of natural hazards damages by optimized warning, alarming and intervention in Switzerland
Lilith Wernli-Schärer, Roland Bialek, Martin Buser, Christoph Flury, Bruno Gerber, Florian Haslinger, Christoph Hegg, Birgit Ottmer, Olivier Overney, Hans Romang, Christoph Schmutz and Jürg Schweizer
Pages: 1005 - 1013
Storm and Flood Warnings issued by Switzerland's Specialist Federal Agencies
David Volken, Coralie Amiguet, Therese Buergi, Daniel Murer and Christoph Schmutz
Pages: 997 - 1004
Avalanche detection systems: A state-of-the art overview on selected operational radar and infrasound systems
Walter Steinkogler, Lorenz Meier, Stian Langeland and Sam Wyssen
Pages: 978 - 987
Integrated risk management of natural hazards by the railway Company BLS Netz AG
Hans-Heini Utelli, Christian Pfammatter and Franz Kuster
Pages: 988 - 996
Practical experience with the Flood scenario catalogue Carinthia, a handbook for flood forecast and warning.
Johannes Moser, Christian Kopeinig and Kurt Rohner
Pages: 969 - 977
A new data management infrastructure for improved analysis and real-time publication of flood events in the Canton of Aargau
Christophe Lienert
Pages: 952 - 959
Radar-based Warning and Alarm Systems for Alpine Mass Movements
Lorenz Meier, Mylène Jacquemart, Bernhard Blattmann, Sam Wyssen, Bernhard Arnold and Martin Funk
Pages: 960 - 968
The flood warning service of the Austrian Federal Railways
Günther Kundela, Ines Fordinal, Florian Mühlböck and Christian Rachoy
Pages: 935 - 943
Early Flood Warning for the City of Zurich: Evaluation of real-time Operations since 2010
Katharina Liechti, Matthias Oplatka, Natascha Eisenhut and Massimiliano Zappa
Pages: 944 - 951
Can Twitter catch precursory phenomena before sediment disasters?
Masaru Kunitomo, Joko Kamiyama, Kazuki Matsushita, Yuzuru Yamakage, Kunihiro Takeda, Cheng Qiu, Akiko Ito and Takeru Araki
Pages: 927 - 934
Advanced Flood Forecasting for Switzerland
Karsten Jasper and Martin Ebel
Pages: 917 - 926
Applied flood-risk-management in the Machland-Nord, Upper Austria
Raimund Heidrich
Pages: 900 - 908
Flood forecasting system for the Tyrolean Inn River (Austria): current state and furtherenhancements of a modular forecasting system for alpine catchments
Matthias Huttenlau, Johannes Bellinger, Paul Schattan, Kristian Förster, Felix Oesterle, Katrin Schneider, Stefan Achleitner, Johannes Schöber, Georg Raffeiner and Robert Kirnbauer
Pages: 909 - 916
Multiple early warning system on rock walls above a railway line in the Bernese Oberland (Switzerland)
Ueli Gruner and Hans-Heini Utelli
Pages: 891 - 899
Intervention planning as a preventive tool for integral natural hazard management in South Tyrol/Italy
Willigis Gallmetzer, Martin Eschgfäller, Roland Fasolo and Peter Egger
Pages: 882 - 890
Outflow forecast on a mountain river! (Emergency Management in the Canton of Nidwalden)
Werner Fessler, Markus Klauser, Peter Seitz and Josef Eberli
Pages: 872 - 881
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