Table of content : Chapter 1. Geophysical detection and structural characterization of discontinuities in rock slopes. Chapter 2. Remote sensing and monitoring techniques for rock mass characterization. and change detection. Chapter 3. Mechanical stability analyses of fractured rock slopes. Chapter 4. Assessment of constitutive behaviours in jointed rock masses from a DEM. perspective. Chapter 5. Methods for predicting rockfall trajectories and runout zones. Chapter 6. Critical review of rebound models. Chapter 7. Rockfall hazard mapping for land use planning. Chapter 8. Rockfall Quantitative Risk Assessment. Chapter 9. Multi‐scale analysis of rockfall protection nets. Chapter 10. A new design method for rockfall shelters covered by granular layers. Chapter 11 ‐Design procedure of rockfall protection galleries with a three‐layered. absorbing system. Chapter 12. Rock fall protection embankments : from real scale experiments to. numerical modelling.