Landslide Science and Practice - Volume 7: Social and Economic Impact and Policies

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 seventh: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

Risk management in Multi-hazard environment.- Landslides and socio-economic impact basic data and loss modeling.- Landslides (and legislation), policies, cost benefit analysis and decision makers.- Landslide education, training and capacity development.

Product details

• Assisted by: Paol Canuti (Editor), Paolo Canuti (Editor), Claudio Margottini (Editor), Kyoji Sassa (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783662510322
• ISBN: 978-3-662-51032-2
• No. of pages: 333
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 16 mm x 279 mm
• Weight: 972 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 333 p. 274 illus., 259 illus. in color.
• 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