Landslide Science and Practice - Volume 4: Global Environmental Change

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 fourth: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

Landslide Scenarios Accounting for the Climatic, Geomorphological and Geotechnical Context.- Landslides, Land-Use Systems and Food Security.- Wild Fires and Slope Instability.- Landslides and Extreme Weather.- Landslides as Sediment Sources.- Landslides in Cold Regions.

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: 9783662522318
• ISBN: 978-3-662-52231-8
• No. of pages: 431
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 21 mm x 279 mm
• Weight: 1236 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 431 p. 392 illus., 350 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