Instabilities in Alpine Permafrost: Strenght and Stiffness in a Warming Regime

Global climate change is contributing to hazards to infrastructure in cold regions, asengineers try to quantify uncertainties through a risk-based consideration of sensitivity andconsequences, and thereby to mitigate the risks arising from permafrost degradation. Agradually rising Mean Annual Air Temperature, combined with more extreme rainfallconditions and fewer ‘freezing degree days’, mean that...