RISK GOVERNANCE AND POLICIES; Forests and climate change – a Swiss research program to gain knowledge for effective outreach ; Peter Brang; Sabine Augustin; Information flows in decision making: application to the torrential risk management ; Laetitia Ferrer; Corinne Curt; Aurélie Arnaud; Jean-Marc Tacnet; Societal transformation and adaptation necessary to manage dynamics in flood hazard and risk mitigation (TRANS-ADAPT) ; Sven Fuchs; Thomas Thaler; Mathieu Bonnefond; Darren Clarke; Peter Driessen; Dries Hegger; Amandine Gatien-Tournat; Mathilde Gralepois; Marie Fournier; Heleen Mees; Conor Murphy; Sylvie Servain-Courant; A gender+-sensitive analysis of local planning instruments in the context of natural disasters and disaster risk management in Austria ; Britta Fuchs; Doris Damyanovic; Florian Reinwald; Julia Eisl; A better informed public through the Swiss Confederation‘s joint natural hazards portal ; Barbora Neveršil; Josef Hess; Barbara Galliker Guglielmetti; Nina Aemisegger; Michèle Marti; Birgit Ottmer; Security level for natural hazards ; Helen Gosteli; Dörte Aller; Astrid Leutwiler; Florian von Fischer; Michael Stump; The Eau Froide river flood protection project ( Switzerland) ; Frédéric Guex; Yves Chatelain; Self-monitoring of torrent control protection structures in Bavaria ; Rainer Höhne; Andreas Rimböck; Actor-networks in flood control ; Thomas Lampalzer; Is the Swiss population prepared to cope with natural hazards? Findings from a comprehensive survey of the Swiss population. Elisabeth Maidl; Matthias Buchecker; Benjamin Wiederkehr; FLORES. A system‘s approach for assessing and bolstering disaster resilience ; Reinhard Mechler; Piotr Magnuszewski; Colin McQuistan; Adriana Keating; Wei Liu; Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler; Michael Szoenyi; Flood protection for the Danube in Lower Austria - development and outlook ; Dietmar Pichler; Norbert Knopf; Mobile flood protection for the Danube in Lower Austria - a danger or a blessing? ; Dietmar Pichler; Norbert Knopf; The Role of Disasters for Policy Change in the Alpine Hazard Management ; Klaus Pukall; An integrated framework for climate vulnerability, natural hazards & risks assessment at the local scale - and its potential for regional upscaling ; Markus Stoffel; Nadine Salzmann; Simon Allen; Kirtiman Awasthi; Juan Antonio Ballesteros Canovas; Akilesh Gupta; Christian Huggel; Mustafa Ali Khan; Janine Kuriger; Andreas Linsbauer; Nisha Mendiratta; Mario Rohrer; Virginia Ruiz Villanueva; INTERPRAEVENT 2016 – Extended Abstracts ; A risk governance in response to climate change and territorial densification in the canton Fribourg, Switzerland ; Fiore Suter; Gabriela Werren; Marie-Joelle Kodjovi; Florent Joerin; David Consuegra; Marco Schwab; Christophe Joerin; Pascale Bongard-Ribordy; After the flood is before the next flood - the post event review capability of the Zurich flood; resilience alliance. Insights, recommendations and next steps for future flood prevention ; Michael Szoenyi; Reinhard Mechler; Ian McCallum; Regional governance in flood risk management: e xamples of inter-local flood risk management approaches in Austria ; Thomas Thaler; Sven Fuchs; Developing partnership approaches for flood risk management: implementation of inter-local co-operations in Austria ; Thomas Thaler; Risk governance and policies: the Swiss example of the canton of Vaud. Assessments, lessons earned and perspectives after a 10-year period. ; Céline Thévenaz; Isabelle Montani; Beatrice Schiffer; Fostering self-responsibility in natural hazard management: encouraging local stakeholders to use adapted building designs ; Susanna Tscharner; Thomas Thaler; Florian Rudolf-Miklau; Johannes Hübl; DATA ACQUISITION AND MODELLING; Reconstructing extreme monsoon floods in Indian Himalayan headwater streams (Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh) ; Juan Antonio Ballesteros Canovas; Daniel Trappmann; Markus Stoffel; Mayank Shekhar; Amalava Bhattacharyya; Improving debris yield estimation with neural network approach ; Jan Baumgartner; Margreth Keiler; Klausbach torrent - hydrological modelling of complex catchment features by simple engineering practice ; Stefan Braito; Franz-Klemens Holle; Andreas Rimböck; Data assimilation for the calibration of flume tests with different granular mixtures ; Lorenzo Brezzi; Roland Kaitna; Fabio Gabrieli; Margherita Zulpo; Simonetta Cola; Surface and subsurface monitoring of an active landslide in Gresten (Austria) ; Ekrem Canli; Alexander Engels; Thomas Glade; Joachim Schweigl; Michael Bertagnoli; Investigation on disaster scale and mechanism of a deep-seated landslide – Mei-Hua area in Taiwan as an example ; Sheng-Chuan Chen; I-Feng Chiu; Chao-Wei Chen; Chao-Chin Pai; Kai-Chun Yang; Investigation of deep-seated slope gravitational deformation from TCP-InSAR techniques with ALOS/ PALSAR images in the Lushan area, Taiwan ; Rou-Fei Chen; Shou-Heng Liu; Lei Zhang; Ching-Weei Lin; Quantifying the stabilizing effect of forests on shallow landslide-prone slopes using SlideforNET ; Luuk Dorren; Massimiliano Schwarz; Long terms effects of invasive tree species on the protective function of forests against rockfall ; Luuk Dorren; Frédéric Berger; Franck Bourrier; Marco Conedera; Björn Reineking; Markus Stoffel; Jan Wunder; Comparing the 3D rockfall simulation models Rockyfor3D and RAMMS::ROCKFALL at a case study site in Switzerland ; Luuk Dorren; Roderick Kühne; Assessing torrential endangered areas - handling of check dams in hydraulic modeling ; Peter Dressel; Andreas Rimböck Remote sensing as a tool for early recognition of mountain hazards ; Regula Frauenfelder; Malte Vöge; Kristine H.H. Ekseth; Galina Ragulina; Matthew J. Lato; Marek Biskupi; Field measurement of debris flow using the force plate and a laser profile scanner ; Naoki Fujimura; Takeshi Shimizu; Shiki Yoshinaga; Tadanori Ishizuka; Satoshi Tagata; Hitoshi Katoh; Takahisa Mizuyama; Mutual influences of flood hazard processes and buildings – basic research issues within numerical and experimental modelling ; Bernhard Gems; Bruno Mazzorana; Thomas Hofer; Sven Fuchs; Michael Sturm; Markus Aufleger; Decelerations during rockfall-impact ; Werner Gerber; Brian McArdell Measuring of rotation and acceleration during rockfall ; Werner Gerber; Christoph Wartmann; James Glover; Experimental study on debris flow deposit dam formation and overflow process on large scale physical model ; Yuji Hasegawa; Kana Nakatani; Tateo Mitsunaga; Takahisa Mizuyama; Tsunami-hazard assessment for a perialpine lake: subaquatic morphological mapping, slope-stability analysis and inundation modeling ; Michael Hilbe; Michael Strupler; Christoph Baumgartner; Markus Bolz; Urs Braschler; Josef Eberli; Markus Liniger; Peter Scheiwiller; Michael Strasser; Flavio Anselmetti; Tracing groundwater vein in a schist landslide area ; Hiromasa Hiura; Akira Suemine; Gonghui Wang; Akio Tanaka; EO-based landslide mapping: from methodological developments to automated web-based information delivery ; Daniel Hölbling; Clemens Eisank; Barbara Friedl; Elisabeth Weinke; Hannes Kleindienst; Arben Kociu;