Landslide Science and Practice - 6: Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the sixth:1. Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning,2. Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring,3. Spatial Analysis and Modelling,4. Global Environmental Change,5. Complex Environment,6. Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation,7. Social and Economic Impact and Policies.

List of contents

Landslides and reservoirs.- Landslides, transportation network and lifelines.- Landslides and urban risk reduction.- Landslides and cultural heritage.- Advanced technologies for landslide stabilisation.- Integrated approach to landslide risk mitigation.

Product details

• Assisted by: Paol Canuti (Editor), Paolo Canuti (Editor), Claudio Margottini (Editor), Kyoji Sassa (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9783642313189
• ISBN: 978-3-642-31318-9
• No. of pages: 789
• Dimensions: 219 mm x 284 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 2348 g
• Illustrations: XX, 789 p. 864 illus., 783 illus. in color.
• Sets: Landslide Science and Practice; Landslide Science and Practice
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; B, environmental science, engineering & technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Geoengineering, Meteorology & climatology, Foundations, Physical geography, Environmental Sciences, Geochemistry, Physical geography & topography, Hydraulics, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Engineering—Geology, Natural disasters, Engineering geology, Natural Hazards, Environmental Science and Engineering, Geomorphology, Geomorphology & geological surface processes