Garins’ landslide: from a geohazard to a touristic and pedagogical geosite

Jean-Luc Desbois (*) & Valérie Costabloz (**)
(*) Massif des Bauges Geopark and Natural Regional Park, 73 630, Le Chatelard, France. E-mail: jl.desbois@parcdesbauges.com (**) French National Forest Office, 73 000, Chambéry, France.

The Massif des Bauges Geopark is involved in the management of geo-hazards and works to develop this issue in relation with its main goals: heritage preservation, education, culture and geotourism. In 1931, a big landslide transformed totally the landscape around the small town of Le Châtelard. The site has become a very important place to improve knowledge, research and tests on mountain protection. Today, the National Forest Office and the Bauges Geopark are attempting to find a new aim to this site. Transforming it into a new attractive, touristic and educative geosite is an interesting tool to tell the story of this natural hazards event, as well as to educate and inform the local populations about geo-hazards, through a fantasy and recreational geotrail.

Bauges, geohazard, Geopark, geosite, geotourism, landslide, natural risks prevention, pedagogy, risks awareness