Algeria

Landslides are a widespread hazard in many mountainous and hilly regions of Europe. They cause significant economic losses as well as human victims. The socio-economic impact of landslides is however difficult to quantify at European scale, mainly because

Soil erosion by water is a widespread problem throughout Europe. A report for the Council of Europe, using revised GLASOD data (Oldeman et al., 1991; Van Lynden, 1995), provides an overview of the extent of soil degradation in Europe.

An area of rapidly developing initiatives is the EU’s Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection, officially adopted by the Commission on September 22nd 2006 [http://ec.europa.eu/environment/soil/]. The strategy makes a clear statement of the need for policy

There is sound evidence that natural disasters can trigger technological disasters (a dynamic also called domino effect), and that these concomitant events (also known as natechs) may pose tremendous risks to countries and communities that are unprepared

This report was prepared jointly by the Major Accident Hazards Bureau (MAHB) and the office of the Natural and Environmental Disaster Information Exchange System (NEDIES) which are part of the Technological and Economic Risk Management Unit of the

Series: Water Science and Technology Library, vol. 62

Implementation of effective drought management policies requires both advanced technologies and appropriate methods. Monitoring and forecasting systems, practical tools for risk assessment, as well

NATO science series IV: Earth and environmental sciences, vol. 11
Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop, held in Budapest, Hungary, 22-25 April 2001 
 
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now

A first meeting on "Analysis of catastrophic avalanches occurred in the EU and proposal for concrete measures" was held at the EC Joint Research Centre Ispra on 4 and 5 October 1999. The meeting was organised in the context of the NEDIES project conducted