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Disaster Mitigation by Spatial Planning

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Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance

Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ((NTHR,volume 34))

Abstract

The core element of spatial planning is to prepare and make decisions about future land use. Thus, disaster risks have to be taken into consideration when deciding about the usability of a plot of land. In doing so, planning is able to mitigate risk by e.g. keeping hazard threatened areas free of further development and taking care for the protection of buildings which are exposed to hazards. However, the planning cultures among Europe differ considerably. Thus, the different systems are characterised according to their main functions in order to indicate their effectiveness for disaster risk mitigation. Moreover, the role of spatial planning within disaster risk assessment and management is discussed in detail. The importance of already built-up areas is expressed, because preventive measures taken by spatial planning must fail. Here, more discourse-based approaches are needed due to the given private property rights. Further on, different options for mitigating risk by spatial planning are explained. The role of spatial planning in practise is highlighted by the example of the municipality of Barcelonette, (France).

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Abbreviations

CCVU:

Communauté de communes de la vallée de l'Ubaye

CLPA:

Location Maps of Avalanches

EU:

European Union

MDGs:

Millennium Development Goals

PACA:

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

PER:

Risk Exposure Plan

PPR:

Risk Prevention Plan

POS:

local land use plans

PSS:

Plans of Submersible Surfaces

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  1. Institute of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, August-Schmidt-Straße 10, D-44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Stefan Greiving & Marjory Angignard

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Theo Van Asch

  2. Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Corominas

  3. Institute of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Stefan Greiving

  4. CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe du Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Jean-Philippe Malet

  5. Institute for the Dynamic of Environmental Processes, National Research Council of Italy, Milan, Italy

    Simone Sterlacchini

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Greiving, S., Angignard, M. (2014). Disaster Mitigation by Spatial Planning. In: Van Asch, T., Corominas, J., Greiving, S., Malet, JP., Sterlacchini, S. (eds) Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6769-0_10

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