Snow avalanche hazard assessment and risk management in northern Quebec, eastern Canada

• Main Author: Daniel Germain
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Blanc-Sablon; Canada; Kangiqsualujjuaq; Lawrence River; Nunavik
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11069-015-2024-z

In the northern environments of Quebec (eastern Canada), snow avalanche hazards have been ignored for a long time because no major incident was recorded before the tragedies of Blanc-Sablon (Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence River) in 1995 and Kangiqsualujjuaq (Nunavik) in 1999. To enhance risk...