Debris flow in spatial planning
Lessons from this summer's landslide events and the work with forest management in landslide-dangerous terrain in Jølster municipality are the basis of this project.
Intense precipitation triggered several landslides in Jølster in July 2019. The tracks on the mountainside were visible for a long time after the events. (Photo: Eivind Brendehaug)
The project draws lessons from landslide events (debris flow) in Jølster, which is now part of Sunnfjord municipality, in the summer of 2019. The goal is to increase knowledge about what is needed to change practice and think about landslide prevention in forest management.
The researchers map debris flows that have been triggered by intense rainfall, and look at the role that landowners, forest management and municipalities (in municipal planning processes) play in the forest in connection with risk management.
The project is carried out by associate professor Denise Ruther and university lecturer Lisbeth Dahle, both at the Department of Environmental and Natural Sciences at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.