Lessons learnt from avalanches disasters
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 in the Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS) of the Joint Research Centre.
Main aims of the meeting were:
• To have a presentation of recent avalanche disasters occurred in Europe and discuss the main lessons learnt from them;
• To produce recommendations to deal with the management of avalanche disasters.
This document gives a short presentation of the main lessons learnt from the avalanche disasters presented at the meeting. Recommendations are presented in a different document.