Landslide Hazard and Risk

✍ Scribed by Thomas Glade, Malcolm G. Anderson, Michael J. Crozier

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 834
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With the increasing need to take an holistic view of landslide hazard and risk, this book overviews the concept of risk research and addresses the sociological and psychological issues resulting from landslides. Its integrated approach offers understanding and ability for concerned organisations, landowners, land managers, insurance companies and researchers to develop risk management solutions. Global case studies illustrate a variety of integrated approaches, and a concluding section provides specifications and contexts for the next generation of process models.

✦ Table of Contents

Landslide Hazard and Risk......Page 3
Contents......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
1 Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues, Concepts and Approach......Page 25
PART 1 CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN APPROACHING LANDSLIDE RISK......Page 65
2 The Nature of Landslide Hazard Impact......Page 67
3 A Review of Scale Dependency in Landslide Hazard and Risk Analysis......Page 99
4 Systematic Procedures of Landslide Hazard Mapping for Risk Assessment Using Spatial Prediction Models......Page 163
5 Vulnerability to Landslides......Page 199
PART 2 EVALUATION OF RISK......Page 223
6 Landslide Risk Perception, Knowledge and Associated Risk Management: Case Studies and General Lessons from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA......Page 225
7 Cultural Consideration in Landslide Risk Perception......Page 243
8 Reply of Insurance Industry to Landslide Risk......Page 275
9 The Role of Administrative Bodies in Landslide Risk Assessment......Page 309
10 Addressing Landslide Hazards: Towards a Knowledge Management Perspective......Page 335
PART 3 MANAGEMENT OF LANDSLIDE RISK......Page 353
11 Management Frameworks for Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues and Options......Page 355
12 Reducing Landslide Hazards and Risk in the United States: The Role of the US Geological Survey......Page 375
13 Basic Data and Decision Support for Landslide Management: A Conceptual Framework......Page 401
14 Instability Management from Policy to Practice......Page 425
15 Geomorphological Mapping to Assess Landslide Risk: Concepts, Methods and Applications in the Umbria Region of Central Italy......Page 453
16 Remote Sensing of Landslides......Page 493
17 The Rise and Fall of a Debris-flow Warning System for the San Francisco Bay Region, California......Page 517
18 Reforestation Schemes to Manage Regional Landslide Risk......Page 541
19 Geotechnical Structures for Landslide Risk Reduction......Page 573
PART 4 ‘END-TO-END SOLUTIONS’ FOR LANDSLIDE RISK ASSESSMENT......Page 619
20 Towards the Development of a Landslide Risk Assessment for Rural Roads in Nepal......Page 621
21 Quantitative Landslide Risk Assessment of Cairns, Australia......Page 645
22 The Story of Quantified Risk and its Place in Slope Safety Policy in Hong Kong......Page 667
23 Rockfall Risk Management in High-density Urban Areas. The Andorran Experience......Page 699
24 Landslide Risk Assessment in Italy......Page 723
25 An Initial Approach to Identifying Slope Stability Controls in Southern Java and to Providing Community-based Landslide Warning Information......Page 757
PART 5 SYNOPSIS......Page 789
26 Landslide Hazard and Risk – Concluding Comment and Perspectives......Page 791
Glossary......Page 799
Thematic Index......Page 819
Locations/regions......Page 825
COLOUR PLATE SECTION......Page 827