Landslide Risk Management
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Landslide Risk Management

  1. 786 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Landslide Risk Management

About this book

Landslide Risk Management comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 31 to June 3, 2005. The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures, prepared by teams of authors selected for their experience in specific topics assigned to them by the JTC

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface
  4. State of the art papers
  5. A framework for landslide risk assessment and management
  6. Hazard characterization and quantification
  7. Probabilistic stability analysis for individual slopes in soil and rock
  8. Estimating landslide motion mechanism, travel distance and velocity
  9. Estimating temporal and spatial variability and vulnerability
  10. Risk assessment and management
  11. Landslide hazard and risk zoning for urban planning and development
  12. Landslide risk assessment for individual facilities
  13. Invited papers
  14. Landslide risk management in forest practices
  15. Risk assessment for submarine slides
  16. Risk assessment for very large natural rock slopes
  17. Landslide risk assessment in Canada; a review of recent developments
  18. National landslide risk strategies
  19. The analysis of global landslide risk through the creation of a database of worldwide landslide fatalities
  20. The role of magnitude-frequency relations in regional landslide risk analysis
  21. Evaluation of risk to the population posed by natural hazards in Italy
  22. Business decision-making and utility economics of large landslides within national forest system lands in the United States
  23. Risky business – Development and implementation of a national landslide risk management system
  24. A preliminary landslide risk assessment of road network in mountainous region of Nepal
  25. Landslide hazard reduction strategy and action in China
  26. Recent landslide disasters in China and lessons learned for landslide risk management
  27. Case histories: hazard characterization
  28. Landslides in the Thompson River valley between Ashcroft and Spences Bridge, British Columbia
  29. Phillips River landslide hazard mapping project
  30. Guidelines for the geologic evaluation of debris-flow hazards onalluvial fans in Utah, USA
  31. Investigation of the origin and magnitude of debris flows from the Payhua Creek basin, Matucana area, Huarochirí Province, Perú
  32. Landslide hazard evaluation for Bogota, Colombia
  33. Failure mode identification and hazard quantification for coastal bluff landslides
  34. Risk assessment of deep-seated slope failures in the Czech Republic
  35. Case histories: risk assessment and management
  36. Vulnerability and acceptable risk in integrated risk assessment framework
  37. Cost-benefit analysis for debris avalanche risk management
  38. Landslide risk assessment of coal refuse emplacement
  39. Debris flow hazard and risk assessment, Jones Creek, Washington
  40. Landslide studies and mitigation program: Seattle, Washington,United States
  41. MultiRISK: An innovative concept to model natural risks
  42. A comparison of landslide risk terminology
  43. Hazard and risk assessment: linear projects
  44. Detection and monitoring of complex landslides along the Ashcroft Railcorridor using spaceborne InSAR
  45. Application of a landslide risk management system to the Saskatchewan highway network
  46. Computers, cables and collections: digital field data collection for GIS support of landslide mapping along railroad corridors
  47. Application of quantitative risk assessment to the Lawrence Hargrave Drive Project, New South Wales, Australia
  48. Managing slope risk for a large highway network
  49. Hazard and risk assessment:individual landslide projects
  50. InSAR monitoring of the Frank Slide
  51. Coupling kinematic analysis and sloping local base level criterion forlarge slope instabilities hazard assessment – a GIS approach
  52. Reliability analysis of iron mine slopes
  53. Evaluation of catastrophic landslide hazard on gentle slopes in liquefiable soils during earthquakes
  54. Methodology: hazard characterization
  55. Assessing landslide hazard on medium and large scales, using self-organizing maps
  56. Assessment of slope failure susceptibility using Fuzzy Logic
  57. Landslide and debris flow characteristics and hazard mapping in mountainhill-slope terrain using GIS, central Nepal
  58. Hazard assessment of landslides triggered by heavy rainfall using Artificial Neural Networks and GIS
  59. A general landslide distribution: further examination
  60. Developing and using landslide size frequency models
  61. The morphology and sedimentology of valley confined rock-avalanche deposits and their effect on potential dam hazard
  62. Remedial works and early warning systems
  63. Development and implementation of a warning system for the South Peak of Turtle Mountain
  64. Frank Slide a century later: the Turtle Mountain monitoring project
  65. The significance of climate on deformation in a rock-slope failure – the Åkerneset case study from Norway
  66. Early warning of landslides for rail traffic between Seattle and Everett, Washington, USA
  67. Towards real-time landslide risk management in an urban area
  68. Author index
  69. Colour plates
  70. Back Cover