Integrative Early Warning

Abstract

Local and regional early warning models developed in this thesis forecast future landslide behaviour and are embedded into the integrative landslide early warning system elaborated by the ILEWS project. In the following, the web-based information and warning platform, as well as the process of transformation of alarm notifications into early warnings are presented. More detailed descriptions are provided by (Jäger et al. 2010) and (Mayer and Pohl 2010), respectively. Since the developed early warning chain is a result of the cooperative risk management and communication carried out in the ILEWS project, additional information on the challenges of the integration of early warning systems into the social and administrative framework and decision making processes are summarized.