Conveners:
Roberto Sergio Azzoni (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Pierluigi Brandolini (Università degli Studi di Genova)
Human activities increasingly interact with geomorphic processes across a wide range of environments, often exerting a disproportionate impact in fragile and climate-sensitive settings. The combined effects of climate change, land-use change, infrastructure development, tourism and resource exploitation are modifying surface processes, sediment dynamics and landscape connectivity at multiple spatial and temporal scales. This session focuses on human–geomorphic interactions with particular attention to environments characterized by low resilience and high sensitivity to disturbance, including mountain and periglacial areas, fluvial systems, coastal zones and other rapidly evolving landscapes. In these contexts, ongoing climatic forcing (e.g. glacier retreat, permafrost degradation, increased frequency of extreme events, sea-level rise) interacts with human pressures, producing complex, non-linear and often threshold-controlled geomorphic responses. We welcome process-based contributions addressing recent and ongoing geomorphic changes, based on field surveys, geomorphological mapping, historical and archival sources, remote sensing and quantitative analyses. Studies that investigate feedbacks between natural and anthropogenic drivers, process coupling across scales, and implications for hazard assessment and risk mitigation are particularly encouraged. The session aims to foster discussion on how understanding human–geomorphic interactions can improve the interpretation of current landscape dynamics and support sustainable management strategies in fragile environments.