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PRISMAC: Analysis, mitigation and management of the risk of slope movements enhanced by climate change in the volcanic archipelagos of the Macaronesia

Luis E. Hernández-Gutiérrez 1,2 , German D. Padilla1,3 , João P. Faria Costa4, Paulo A. Pimentel5, Rui Marques 6, Alexandra da Costa Delgado7, Sónia Silva Victória8, Nemesio M. Pérez1,3

  • Affiliations: 1Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (INVOLCAN), Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands; 2Viceconsejería de Infraestructuras, Gobierno de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; 3Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER), Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Canary Islands; 4Secretaria Regional do Turismo, Mobilidade e Infraestruturas (SRTMI), Governo dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal; 5Laboratório Regional de Engenharia Civil (LREC), Governo dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal; 6Universidade Dos Açores (UAC), Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal; 7Universidade Técnica do Atlântico (UTA), Mindelo, Cape Verde; 8Universidade de Cabo Verde (UCV), Praia, Cape Verde. 

  • Presentation type: Poster

  • Presentation time: Thursday 16:30 - 18:30, Room Poster Hall

  • Poster Board Number: 154

  • Programme No: 2.2.18

  • Theme 2 > Session 2

Abstract

The sustainable development of the outermost regions, where adverse meteorological factors, whether or not enhanced by climate change, are at the origin of environmental imbalances in ecosystems and natural disasters, requires a set of sophisticated analysis of the surrounding processes to understand, analyze and mitigate them. The geomorphological evolution of volcanic islands is determined by geomorphological processes, in particular slope movements, which represent a serious constraint for human activity and ecosystems. Moreover, they constitute a considerable source of risk for people and property, and it is therefore crucial to strengthen their knowledge and to increase resilience and adaptive capacity to this climate-related risk. The main objective of PRISMAC project is to analyze, mitigate and manage natural hazards, particularly the risk of slope movements enhanced by climate change in oceanic volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region. The objective of the project is to develop and harmonize methodologies to analyze susceptibility and risk to slope movements with a view to identifying risk sites for the development of slope movement monitoring, warning and alarm systems, at local and regional scales, for each of the regions.