The present study highlights of the learning by doing approach implemented in the case of Potoška planina landslide, which poses a threat for community of Koroška Bela. For the first time in Slovenia, a cooperative team has been established for the purpose of raising awareness and understanding of landslide risk in the community. In addition, a combination of indoor and outdoor training sessions provides both theoretical and practical exercises on how landslides may be identified, together with their key characteristics and methods for landslide monitoring. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of this team, which is made up of different sectors, a questionnaire was drawn up. The responses to the questionnaire showed that understanding of landslide hazards among the members of cooperative team is significantly better than it was before the group etablished.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 2870613The ARRS project was presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL, Kyoto, Japan) that was held in Paris in November 2017. The project was positively evaluated and as such it gained the status of an active project IPL-226 of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) - http://iplhq.org/category/iplhq/iplongoing-project/.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 8235617Mateja Jemec Auflič was the Forum Chair and GeoZS was the main organiser (together with the University of Ljubljana) of this important scientific event that happened in October 2017 v Ljubljani.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
At the World Forum on Construction we presented investigations and modelling of slope mass movements in the hinterland of the Koroška Bela settlement (Bela stream watershed), located on an alluvial fan in the Karavanke mountains in northwestern Slovenia. The hinterland of the Koroška Bela settlement has complex geological and tectonic conditions. The active landslides are mainly related to soft fine-grained and tectonically deformed clastic rocks, mostly covered with large amounts of carbonate scree material. Based on the investigations and field observations, the most active landslides of the Bela stream hinterland are considered to be the Urbas and Čikla landslides. Based on the investigations conducted here, previous research and historical evidence have shown that the area of interest could represent source areas for potential debris flows triggered by extreme events (such as extreme precipitation events, earthquakes, or a combination of both). A debris flow poses a direct hazard to the underlying settlement of 2,200 residents and developed infrastructure (international railroad) and industry (steel industry). In view of this hazard potential, the monitoring of landslide masses, the assessment of the volume of active landslides and the hazard potential is crucial for effective disaster risk management, also with regard to structural measures.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 8788577At the annual conference of EGU (European Geosciences Union), attended by more than 10,000 researchers from all over the world, we presented a research project and the problematic occurrence of landslides in the hinterland of Koroška Bela. We presented the complexity of displacement in a study of the possibilities of mobilisation of landslides into debris flows.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2729301