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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk - Volume 5 Catastrophic Landslides and Frontiers of Landslide Science

English · Hardback

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This book is a part of ICL new book series "ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction" founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the followings:
Part I with topics is mainly about landslides and earthquakes; landslide dams and outburst floods; catastrophic large-scale landslides in mountainous regions.
Part II with topics is mainly about impact of climate change; loess landslides; mapping, monitoring and modeling of landslides; stabilization and mitigation; application of new technology in landslide studies.
Prof. Vít Vilímek is the vice-president of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) and a member of the evaluation committee, Editor-in-Chief of the university journal AUC Geographica and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Geoenvironmental Disasters. He is a Professor of Physical Geography at Charles University,Prague, Czech Republic.
Prof. Fawu Wang is the President of the International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR) and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Geoenvironmental Disasters. He is a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China.
Dr. Alexander Strom is a chief expert at the Geodynamics Research Center LLC, Moscow, Russia. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Chang'an University, Xi'an, China, Visiting Professor at SKLGP, Chengdu, China, and an alternative representative of the JSC "Hydroproject Institute" in ICL.
Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President and the Secretary-General of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.
Prof. Peter Bobrowsky is the President of the International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Prof. Kaoru Takarais the Executive Director of the International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.

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Catastrophic landslides with different triggers.- Frontiers of landslide science.

Product details

Assisted by Peter T. Bobrowsky (Editor), Kyoji Sassa (Editor), Alexander Strom (Editor), Alexander Strom et al (Editor), Kaoru Takara (Editor), Vít Vilímek (Editor), Faw Wang (Editor), Fawu Wang (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 10.02.2021
 
EAN 9783030603182
ISBN 978-3-0-3060318-2
No. of pages 427
Dimensions 210 mm x 26 mm x 279 mm
Illustrations XXVI, 427 p. 450 illus., 418 illus. in color.
Series ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous

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