Regional Risk Dialogue - an Effective Tool for Natural Hazard Management and Risk Communication : a Case Study in the Stanzer Valley, Tyrol : Poster presented 12th Congress INTERPRAEVENT 2012, Grenoble / France: Poster
Risk communication is an integral part of the science of risk assessment and the process of risk management. In the frame of the EU-project PARAmount (Improved accessibility: Reliability and security of alpine transport infrastructure related to mountainous hazards in a changing climate), which aims at improving hazard management strategies for road and rail networks, Regional Risk Dialogues (RRD) where initiated in all five participating countries (Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland). The RRD allow making an inventory of existing hazard management strategies and tools, and validating their implementation in the respective study sites, thereby providing a key input for the project PARAmount. This paper gives an overview of the RRD initiated in the Austrian study site Stanzer Valley and explores the possibilities it offers as well as its efficiency in terms of public participation and risk communication in natural hazard management. regional risk dialogue, risk communication, natural hazard management, PARAmount
