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Technical Reports Risk management

This page lists technical reports of PIARC in the field of risk management. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Slope Risk Guidance for Roads

    Slopes are, in general, associated with a greater frequency of failure than other geotechnical assets and a greater threat economically and socially. This report makes a synthesis of risk analysis methods and of vulnerability issues. It presents, in a series of appendices, mitigation measures with their advantages and disadvantages together with a set of case studies.

  • Natural Disaster reduction

    The General Assembly of the United Nations, on December 11, 1987, designated the 1990s as the International Decade for natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). During this ten-year period, 1990 through 1999, special efforts should be made for reducing catastrophic loss of life, property damage, and social and economic disruption due to natural disasters, such as landslides, earthquakes and floods, throughout the world. In response to the UN appeal on IDNDR, PIARC organized a Working Group on « natural [...]

  • Natural Disaster Reduction - Final Report

    The PIARC Working Group G2 was set up in 1990, in response to the United Nations proposal on the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). For the first period (1990-1995), the Working Group had conducted various studies including an international survey on road disasters, and published "Comprehensive Report on Natural Disaster Reduction for Roads, " for distribution at the 20th World Road Congress in Montreal in 1995. The survey done by G2 indicates that landslide, earthquake, [...]

  • Contribution to Risk Management of Existing Slopes

    C12 decided to extend those studies and adopted the topic risk management of existing slopes during the period 1995-1999 to focus on the utilization of monitoring techniques and database applications. The report summarizes the risk management on existing slopes in technical aspects through the collected case study documents and comments from C12 committee member countries. The report also treats the cases of real and administrative applications. The report considers innovative monitoring technology [...]