Abstract ID: 3.9618 | Accepted as Talk | Requested as: Poster | TBA | TBA

The LANDAM project focuses on the study of landslides that have the potential to dam the valley river. These landslides are difficult to forecast with statistical return intervals and can develop in secondary hazardous events, such as lake outburst floods, which may add risk to infrastructures and communities living in the downstream valley. The LANDAM project has three main objectives: 1) Characterization: it wants to create a database of all the known landslides-dams with information regarding the landslide, the dam, the river, and the eventual formed lake. The database will be open and will bring to a new landslide classification better suitable for the emergency management; 2) Forecast: by using selected criterium (e.g., active landslides, satellite data, InSAR data, etc.) it wants to locate all possible landslides that may evolve into natural dams to prevent the possible associated risks. Few selected case-studies will be further investigated to develop risk scenarios, based on the expected landslide volume and modelled runout, as well as on the modeled lake formation and eventual lake outburst flood. This will serve as base for the last objective, which is the 3) Emergency management plan in case of the event occurrence. This last phase aims at developing guidelines for intervention in case of signs of failure in the dam would become visible. The project is led by the University of Perugia with the help of 4 other Italian Universities and the MAPSAT society. Each partner will bring its own expertise and competences for the development of the above-mentioned objectives. The outcomes of the project are expected to be of primary importance to improve our knowledge of this particular type of landslide, and to provide solid basis for the management of the risks to it associated with. The research is part of the RETURN Partnership Project, Spoke 2 – Ground Instabilities (CUP B53C22004020002).