Operandum
OPEn-air laboRAtories for Nature baseD solUtions to Manage environmental risks
This project was carried out by the former working group "Remote sensing and Geoinformatics"
Project duration: July 2018 – December 2022
Project team: Thomas Zieher, Jan Pfeiffer, Annemarie Polderman (formerly: Martin Rutzinger, Jan Schmieder)
Project coordinator: Silvana Di Sabatino (UNIBO, IT)
Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 776848
The Institute of Interdisciplinary Mountain Research is partner in the H2020 funded project OPERANDUM (OPEn-air laboRAtories for Nature baseD solUtions to Manage environmental risks). The overall objective of OPERANDUM is to reduce hydro-meteorological risks in European territories and beyond through co-designed and tested innovative green and blue/grey/hybrid Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), and push business exploitation, using the living lab concept through seven European and three non-European Open-Air Laboratories (OALs). OPERANDUM’s OALs cover a wide range of hazards, considering different climate projections, diverse land use and socio-economic characteristics, multiple monitoring activities, and varying levels of NBS acceptance and technology readiness.
The project aims to provide science-evidence for the efficacy of NBS and best practices for their design based on participatory processes. It plans to engage multiple stakeholders from the local community up to the international level to leverage the widest possible NBS acceptance and to promote its diffusion as a good practice. Moreover, the project intends to establish a framework for strengthening NBS-based policies according to local legislation and to create European leadership in the technology and innovation of NBS.
One of the OALs is led by the Institute of Interdisciplinary Mountain Research. The Austrian OAL is located in Tyrol and characterized by landslide activity in the form of a deep-seated gravitational slope deformation (DSGSD), which has recently shown active movement in the order of 4cm/a. This landslide activity creates risks for houses, infrastructure and agricultural land. Various monitoring activities, including displacement monitoring, water and snow depth monitoring, meteorological monitoring, and hydrogeological monitoring are ongoing in the OAL in collaboration with local partners. The institute will co-develop a NBS strategy together with stakeholders and plans to monitor its effectiveness afterwards.
The OPERANDUM consortium consists of 26 partners from 12 European countries plus China and Australia. The partners come from diverse backgrounds, including universities and research institutes, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises, public authorities, environmental organisations, and international bodies, and bring a wide range of knowledge and expertise to the project.
Publications
Shah, Mohammad Aminur Rahman; G. Renaud, Fabrice; Anderson, Carl C.; Wild, Annie; Domeneghetti, Alessio et al. [..] (2020) A review of hydro-meteorological hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessment frameworks and indicators in the context of nature-based solutions. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Bd. 50, S. 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101728
Kumar, P.; Debele, S.E.; Sahani, J.; Aragão, L.; Barisani, F. et al. [..] (2020) Towards an operationalisation of nature-based solutions for natural hazards. Science of The Total Environment, Bd. 731, S. 138855. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138855
Pfeiffer, Jan; Zieher, Thomas; Schmieder, Jan; Rutzinger, Martin; Strasser, Ulrich (online: 2021) Spatio-temporal assessment of the hydrological drivers of an active deep-seated gravitational slope deformation: The Vögelsberg landslide in Tyrol (Austria). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Bd. 1-17. doi: 10.1002/esp.5129
Kumar, Prashant; Debele, Sisay; Sahani, Jeetendra; Rawat, Nidhi; Marti-Cardona, Belen et al. [..] (online: 2021) An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards. Earth-Science Reviews, Bd. 217 (217), S. 103603. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103603
Kumar, Prashant; Debele, Sisay; Sahani, Jeetendra; Rawat, Nidhi; Marti-Cardona, Belen et al. [..] (online: 2021) Nature-based solutions efficiency evaluation against natural hazards: Modelling methods, advantages and limitations. Science of The Total Environment, Bd. 784, S. 147058. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147058
Pfeiffer, Jan; Zieher, Thomas; Schmieder, Jan; Bogaard, Thom; Rutzinger, Martin et al. [..] (online: 2022) Spatial assessment of probable recharge areas - investigating the hydrogeological controls of an active deep-seated gravitational slope deformation. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., Bd. 22 (7), S. 2219-2237. doi: 10.5194/nhess-22-2219-2022
Zieher, T.; Gallotti, G.; Rianna, G.; Reder, A.; Pfeiffer, J. (online: 2022) Exploring the effects of climate change on the water balance of a continuously moving deep-seated landslide. Nat. Hazards, Bd. 115, S. 357–387. doi: 10.1007/s11069-022-05558-7
Pfeiffer, Jan; Zieher, Thomas; Schneider-Muntau, Barbara (2023) Slope stability evolution of a deep-seated landslide considering a constantly deforming topography. EARTH SURF PROC LAND, Bd. 48, S. 923-939. doi: 10.1002/esp.5527
Gonzalez-Ollauri, Alejandro; Mickovski, Slobodan B.; Anderson, Carl C.; Debele, Sisay; Emmanuel, Rohinton et al. [..] (2023) A nature-based solution selection framework: Criteria and processes for addressing hydro-meteorological hazards at open-air laboratories across Europe. J ENVIRON MANAGE, Bd. 331, S. 117183. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.117183
Shah, Mohammad Aminur Rahman; Xu, Jiren; Carisi, Francesca; De Paola, Francesco; Di Sabatino, Silvana et al. [..] (2023) Quantifying the effects of nature-based solutions in reducing risks from hydrometeorological hazards: Examples from Europe. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Bd. 93 (103771), S. 103771. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103771
Soini, Katriina; Anderson, Carl Cyrus; Polderman, Annemarie; Teresa, Carlone; Sisay, Debele et al. [..] (2023) Context matters: Co-creating nature-based solutions in rural living labs. LAND USE POLICY, Bd. 133, S. 106839. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106839