<font 14.0pt/inherit;;black;;inherit>General description:</font>

<font inherit/calibri,sans-serif;;windowtext;;inherit>The following model is an approach to delineate areas where the biotic ecosystems (forests) contribute to the mitigation of natural hazards and the protection of human assets from hazardous natural processes. At the Alpine-wide scale, this has been done by combining separate regional models for avalanches, rock-falls and water channel relevant processes. The models use topographical information derived from the 25m EU DEM and statistically derived threshold values identified by earlier projects and assessments (performed in all Alpine countries) to model potential avalanche and rock-fall release and transition zones.</font><font inherit/calibri,sans-serif;;windowtext;;inherit>Figure 1</font><font inherit/calibri,sans-serif;;windowtext;;inherit>describes in detail the calculation procedure to derive the developed indicators per local administrative units (LAU2) of the Alpine Space.</font>

<font 12.0pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Input data</font>

• <font inherit/calibri,sans-serif;;windowtext;;inherit>DEM (slope, slope-length, flow direction, watershed, plan curvature, contour lines)</font>
• <font inherit/calibri,sans-serif;;windowtext;;inherit>Land Cover</font>
• <font inherit/calibri,sans-serif;;windowtext;;inherit>River Network</font>

<font 12.0pt/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Calculation processes</font>