Landslides, Avalanches and Protection Forest Section

The section

• is responsible for the implementation of technical and biological measures protecting human living space against natural hazards, i.e. against avalanches, landslides, erosion, rockfall, rockslides, debris avalanches, torrents and debris flows;
• ensures that protective forests fulfil their function sustainably;
• draws up recommendations and enforcement aids for assessing and documenting natural disasters and for action planning;
• advises and supports authorities and agencies in the area of gravitative natural hazards and maintenance of protection forests.

Zuständigkeiten Schutzbauten und Gefahrengrundlagen WaG (PDF, 596 kB, 05.03.2020)

Zuständigkeiten Schutzwald (PDF, 627 kB, 05.03.2020)

Topic:

Topic Natural hazards

Personnel

Stéphane Losey
Position: head of section
Responsibilities: strategic management of protection forests (cantons FR, TI and VS); strategic management of protective structures (canton TI)
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Reto Baumann
Position: deputy head of section
Responsibilities: strategic management of protective structures (cantons BE, LU and VS); risk analyses (EconoMe administrator); quality assurance/prototype testing (Chair of the Federal Commission of Experts on Avalanches and Rockfalls, EKLS); avalanches
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Protective structures Specialists

Florian Denzinger
Responsibilities: Mass movement warning team (InSAR and susceptibility warning): Analysis, data management and EDP systems
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Patrizia Köpfli
Responsibilities: strategic management of protective structures (cantons AI, AR, NW, OW, SZ, SG, UR and TG); avalanches; early warning systems/monitoring; landslides; rockfalls; rockslides; Mass movement warning team (Susceptibility warning)
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Bernard Loup
Responsibilities: strategic management of protective structures (cantons AG, BL, BS, FR, GE, JU, NE, SH, SO, VD, ZG and ZH); early warning systems/monitoring; risk analyses (EconoMe administrator); landslides; rockfalls; rockslides
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Hugo Raetzo
Responsibilities: strategic management of protective structures (cantons GL and GR);Team leader: Mass movement warning (InSAR, Susceptibility warning and mass movement in high mountains); permafrost; early warning systems/monitoring; landslides; rockfalls; rock slides
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Protective Forest Specialists

Kathrin Kühne
Responsibilities: strategic management of protection forests (cantons BL, BS, GE, GL, GR, JU, NE, NW, SO, UR and VD; continued development of the NaiS guidelines on sustainable development for protection forests; indicator plots
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Benjamin Lange
Responsibilities: strategic management of protection forests (cantons AG, AI, AR, BE, LU, OW, SG, SH, SZ, TG, ZG and ZH; continued development of the NaiS guidelines on sustainable development for protection forests; hydrological impact of forests; SilvaProtect-CH project to record the location and properties of protection forests in Switzerland
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Last modification 05.03.2020