2nd International conference on debris flow including all aspects of debris flow monitoring, modelling, hazard assesment, mitigation measures, case studies, and extreme events, erosion, slope instability and sediment transport

Debris and hyper-concentrated flows are among the most frequent and destructive of all water related processes. They mainly affect mountainous areas in a wide range of morpho-climatic environments and in recent years have attracted more attention from the scientific and professional communities. There is also public concern, 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 development of activities that have the potential to increase the magnitude of hazard call 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 the fields of erosion and slope instability, sediment transport, debris flow and debris flood data acquisition, debris fl ow phenomenology and laboratory tests, using the most advanced, state-of-the-art methodologies in monitoring, modelling, mechanics, hazard prediction and risk assessment.