Debris Flow 2012 : Int. Conf. Monitoring, Simulation, Prevention and Remediation of Dense and Debris Flow

[Victorio Sonzogni]

Debris Flow 2012

4th International Conference on Monitoring, Simulation, Prevention and 
Remediation of Dense and Debris Flow

29 - 31 May, 2012

Dubrovnik, Croatia

http://www.wessex.ac.uk/debris2012rem4a.html



Debris Flow 2012 is the fourth conference in this successful series which 
started in Rhodes, Greece (2006); followed by the New Forest, UK in (2008) and 
Milano, Italy (2010).

Debris and hyper-concentrated flows are among the most frequent and destructive 
of all water related processes. They mainly affect mountain areas in a wide 
range of morpho-climatic environments and in recent years have attracted more 
and more attention from the scientific and professional communities, as well as 
concern from the public, due to the increasing frequency with which they occur 
and the death toll they claim.

Higher population pressure on natural resources in hazard-prone areas and the 
development of activities have the potential to increase the magnitude of this 
hazard. This calls for improvements in the criteria used to identify debris 
flow risk areas and to design suitable prevention and mitigation measures.

The conference will provide a forum for engineers, scientists and managers 
from laboratories, industries, governments and academia to interchange 
knowledge and expertise in fields such as erosion and slope instability, 
sediment transport, debris flow and debris flood data acquisition, debris flow 
phenomenology and laboratory tests, using the most advanced, state-of-the-art 
methodologies in monitoring, modelling, mechanics, hazard prediction and risk 
assessment of debris flow phenomena.


Conference Topics

    * Debris flow modelling
    * Debris flow triggering
    * Risk assessment
    * Hazard mitigation
    * Sediment transport and debris flow
      monitoring and analysis

    * Landslide phenomena
    * Debris flow rheology
    * Active and passive disaster management
    * Vulnerability studies
    * Structural and non-structural controls
    * Field tests

Conference Secretariat
Irene Moreno Millan
Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, 
SO40 7AA
Telephone: 44 (0) 238 029 3223      Fax: 44 (0) 238 029 2853
Email: imoreno at wessex.ac.uk 
<mailto:imoreno at wessex.ac.uk?Subject=Debris%20Flow%202012>

http://www.wessex.ac.uk/debris2012rem4a.html