Natural Hazards in the Mountain Environment: Risk Management and Responsibility
The desire to enjoy nature and the enthusiasm for practicing a wide variety of activities away from the stress of everyday life is bringing a growing amount of people closer to the mountain. Even though this trend is undoubtedly to welcome, it also leads to an increase in alpine accidents. These are usually followed by complex criminal liability issues, due to both the unpredictability of nature, and the tendency of people to overestimate their capacity to keep risk under control.
The research project “Natural Hazards in the Mountain Environment: Risk Management and Responsibility” is addressing these issues from a legal point of view and aims to bring nature and law closer to each other through interdisciplinary and empirical research. [more]
A project funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen-South Tyrol - Department of Innovation, Research, University and Museums through the call for tender "Research Südtirol/Alto Adige".
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Project partners
University of Innsbruck (lead partner)
Margareth Helfer
project leader
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Klaus Schwaighofer
project team member
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Domenico Rosani
project team member
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Stefan Schwitzer
project researcher
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Elias Beltrami
student assistant
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Lydia Pedoth
project coordinator at EURAC
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Fabio Carnelli
project researcher
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Silvia Cocuccioni
project researcher
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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Kolis Summerer
project coordinator
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
+39 04720 14132
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Matteo Leonida Mattheudakis
project researcher
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Alessandro Melchionda
project coordinator
University of Trento
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Stefania Rossi
project researcher
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Other project partners:
- Österreichischer Alpenverein (ÖAV) - Andreas Ermacora
- Alpenverein Südtirol (AVS) - Georg Simeoni - Ivo Tschurtschenthaler
- Amt für Geologie und Materialprüfung der Autonomen Provinz Bozen - Volkmar Mair
- Geologenkammer Trentino-Südtirol - Mirco Demozzi
- Associazione Interregionale di coordinamento e documentazione per i problemi inerenti alla neve e alle valanghe (AINEVA) - Igor Chiambretti
- Agentur für Bevölkerungsschutz der Autonomen Provinz Bozen - Klaus Unterweger
- Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) - Vincenzo Torti
- Club Alpino Italiano - Gruppo Regionale Alto Adige - Carlo Alberto Zanella
- Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini (SAT) - Anna Facchini
Events
In the framework of the project, meetings, workshops, conferences and other events are organised, in which (partial) research findings are presented and discussed [more]
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