Collaborative Community Weather Information

Takenouchi, Kensuke

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-2318-8_5

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“…During the last decades, the process of explaining lifethreatening natural hazards to the public has become a major public issue from the point of view of effective prevention policies. However, with regard to weather risk assessment and management, it has been pointed out that, while remarkable developments in science and technology did rapidly improve, the community engagement with disaster prevention initiatives has been declining gradually (Takenouchi, 2020). Among the strategies for an effective communication of environmental risks, cartography plays a pivotal role.…”

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Mapping the avalanche risk: from survey to cartographic production. The avalanche bulletin of the Meteomont Service of the Alpine Troops Command

Rapisarda

Pranzo

2021

Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc.

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Abstract. During the last decades, the process of explaining life-threatening natural hazards to the public has become a major public issue from the point of view of effective prevention policies. The avalanche risk and the communication methods aimed at its forecasting and prevention constitute the focus of this paper. Among the strategies for an effective communication of environmental risks, cartography plays a pivotal role. It has proved to be essential not only for communication purposes, but also for the planning of prompt and efficient preventive interventions; in so doing, it contributes to the reduction of avalanche-caused damages and deaths. The paper investigates prevention and forecasting activities of the Meteomont Service of the Alpine Troops Command (COMTA) of Bolzano (capital city of the province of South Tyrol - North Italy), resulting in the daily publication of avalanche bulletins (Bollettini valanghe), which also include hazard maps. Specifically, the phases that contribute to the production of the avalanche bulletin and the embedded avalanche risk maps will be firstly examined; secondly, such maps will be analysed in order to assess their communicative potential for the purpose of a correct interpretation aimed at the effective prevention of snow-related risks in mountain areas. Possible improvement will be proposed on the basis of the experience of several avalanche warning services worldwide.

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confidence: 99%