Quantifying the protective function of a forest against rockfall for past, present and future scenarios using two modelling approaches

Natural Hazards

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-111

  Bigot, Christophe ^a   Dorren, Luuk K A ^b   Berger, Frédéric ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Protection forest; Rockfall; Spatial simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROCKFALL; SLOPE FAILURE;

EID: 61749089936     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9280-0     Document Type: Article

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