Social capacity building for natural hazards is a topic increasingly gaining relevance not only for socalled developing countries but also for European welfare states which are continuously challenged by the social, economic and ecological impacts of natural hazards. Following an outline of recent governance changes with regard to natural hazards, we develop a heuristic model of social capacity building by taking into account a wide range of existing expertise from different fields of research. Particular attention is paid to social vulnerability and its assessment, as well as to risk communication and risk education as specific strategies of social capacitybuilding. We propose to distinguish between interventionist and participatory approaches, thus enabling for a better understanding of existing practices of social capacity building as well as their particular strengths and weaknesses. By way of conclusion, we encourage more research on social capacity building for natural hazards in the European context which at present is highly diverse and, at least in parts, only poorly investigated.
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The second monograph in a book series 'Narural Disasters' presents a cross section of the scientific work in the field of natural hazards in Slovenia in the last years, with special emphasis on the importance of prevention as a key segment in the natural hazards management. In the thirteen chapters different natural hazard topics are presented, e.g. earthquakes, landslides, avalanches, floods (with an emphasis on largescale floods in September 2010), safeguard forests, droughts and education on natural hazards.
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The third monograph in a book series 'Narural Disasters' contains twenty-one chapters dealing with natural disasters. The chapters describe various research findings and examples of the use of modern technologies in cases of natural disasters. The volume covers various topics such as earthquakes, floods, avalanches, droughts, GIS support, and web applications.
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A set of cyclical aerial photogrammetric measurements of Slovenia (CAS) taken over the course of many years is available. Among other things, their use in geography has been connected with exploring changes in land use, studying environmental degradation, and determining specific physical geographical changes in the landscape, such as changes in glaciers and river beds. This article presents the usefulness of CAS for monitoring the intensity of slope processes. CAS stereoimages were used to measure the size of two rockfalls: one at Čedca Falls in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and one on the slopes of Mt. Glava below Mt. Triglav. Also studied were terrain changes on the Birški plaz talus below Mt. Veliki Vrh on the Košuta Massif in the Karavanks, and in the torrent valley of Suhelj Creek in the Upper Sava Valley.
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When studying the development of different geomorphic processes, floods, glaciers or even cultural heritage through time, one cannot rely only on regular photogrammetrical procedures and metrical images. In a majority of cases the only available images are the archive images with unknown parameters of interior orientation showing the object of interest in oblique view. With the help of modern high resolution digital elevation models derived from aerial or terrestrial laser scanning (lidar) or from photogrammetric stereo-images by automatic image-matching techniques even single nonmetric high or low oblique image from the past can be applied in the monoplotting procedure to enable 3D-data extraction of changes through time. The test examples presented in this paper enable guidance for the use of monoplotting method for different geoscience applications. The most important factors are the resolution of digital elevation model (the best are the lidar derived ones), the presence of appropriate common features and the incidence angle of the oblique images (low oblique images or almost vertical aerial images are better). First the very oblique example of riverbank erosion on Dragonja river, Slovenija, is presented. Than the test example of September 2010 floods on Ljubljana moor is discussed. Finally, case study from November 2012 floods is presented.
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