Security of the Pyrenean accesses in front of risk avalanche

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The SAPYRA project has for objective to reassure the Pyrenean accesses in front of risk avalanche, in particular for the access to Andorra. Every winter, Pyrenean routes are subject to cuts because of avalanches or of risks of avalanches. The climate change is translated in our regions by an increase of the number of events extrèmes, and thus by more plentiful snowfalls for the periods which tend to increase. While the national and international exchanges take a more and more important part in our companies, this climate change is a real brake in the life of the inhabitants of our regions and in the economic development of the zone of the CPT. SAPYRA will allow, by the realization of infrastructures of protection, and instrumentation of prevention, to decrease appreciably the number of days and closing hours the concerned routes. France and the Principality of Andorra are directly concerned by these hazards and by these cuts. It thus seemed necessary to work in cross-border partnership to handle this problem and solve it partly. Equipments will allow to decrease the risks, and the studies, as well as the plans of management which will result from it, will allow to develop the information and the cross-border, long-term cooperation of the project and very beyond, to go towards long-lasting solutions.

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