Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

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eBook - ePub

Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

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Landslide Hazards, Risks and Disasters Second Edition makes a broad but detailed examination of major aspects of mass movements and their consequences, and provides knowledge to form the basis for more complete and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness and reduction of the impacts of landslides on society. The frequency and intensity of landslide hazards and disasters has consistently increased over the past century, and this trend will continue as society increasingly utilises steep landscapes. Landslides and related phenomena can be triggered by other hazard and disaster processes – such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and wildfires – and they can also cause other hazards and disasters, making them a complex multi-disciplinary challenge. This new edition of Landslide Hazards, Risks and Disasters is updated and includes new chapters, covering additional topics including rockfalls, landslide interactions and impacts and geomorphic perspectives. Knowledge, understanding and the ability to model landslide processes are becoming increasingly important challenges for society extends its occupation of increasingly hilly and mountainous terrain, making this book a key resource for educators, researchers and disaster managers in geophysics, geology and environmental science. - Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the geological, seismological, physical, environmental and social impacts of landslides - Presents the latest research on causality, impacts and landslide preparedness and mitigation. Includes numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, photographs and video captures of hazardous processes - Discusses steps for planning for and responding to landslide hazards, risks and disasters

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Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9780128226452
Edition
2
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science

Table of contents

  1. Title of Book
  2. Cover image
  3. Title page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Copyright
  6. Contributors
  7. Editorial foreword to the second edition
  8. Chapter 1 Landslide hazards, risks and disasters: introduction
  9. Chapter 2 Landslide causes and triggers
  10. Chapter 3 Landslides in bedrock
  11. Chapter 4 Coseismic landslides
  12. Chapter 5 Volcanic debris avalanches
  13. Chapter 6 Peat landslides
  14. Chapter 7 Rock–snow–ice avalanches
  15. Chapter 8 Multiple landslide-damming episodes
  16. Chapter 9 Rock avalanches onto glaciers
  17. Chapter 10 Paleo-landslides
  18. Chapter 11 Remote sensing of landslide motion with emphasis on satellite multi-temporal interferometry applications: an overview
  19. Chapter 12 Small landslides – frequent, costly and manageable
  20. Chapter 13 Analysis tools for mass movement assessment
  21. Chapter 14 Landslides in a changing climate
  22. Chapter 15 Rockfall hazard and risk
  23. Chapter 16 Reducing landslide disaster impacts
  24. Chapter 17 Geomorphic precursors of large landslides: seismic preconditioning and slope-top benches
  25. Index