Gully erosion in mountain areas: processes, measurement, modelling and regionalization

[Departement_IRSTEA]RE [TR1_IRSTEA]RIE / ALPRISKInternational audienceThe papers in this special issue arise from the conference Gully erosion in mountain areas: processes, measurement,modelling and regionalization', held in Digne, France, in October 2003. The meeting had a truly international flavour, with presentations of work from scientists from 22 countries over five continents. A second set of papers (Mathys and Poesen, 2005; Raclot et al., 2005; Rey, 2005; Cohen and Rey, 2005; Gauché, 2005; Collinet and Zante, 2005) has been published in Géomorphologie: Relief, Processus, Environnement, the journal of the Groupe Français de Géomorphologie (http://dossier.univ-st-etienne.fr/gfg/www/ ). This paper is the editorial