Landslide hazards, risks, and disasters

✍ Scribed by Timothy R H Davies

• Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 475
• Series: Hazards and disasters series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Landslides are the most costly geo-hazard in the world, and they’re often the cause or the result of other hazards and disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters makes a close and detailed examination of major mass movements and provides measures for more thorough and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness, and prevention. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while also discussing the impacts human-induced causes such as deforestation, blasting, and building construction-underscoring the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic.

• Contains contributions from expert geologists, seismologists, geophysicists, and environmental scientists selected by a world-renowned editorial board
• Presents the latest research on causality, economic impacts, fatality rates, and landslide and problem soil preparedness and mitigation
• Numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, and video captures of hazardous processes
• Discusses steps for prevention and treatment of problem soils, the most expensive geo-hazard in the world

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Page ix, Fabio Bovenga, Elisabeth T. Bowman, Marc-André Brideau, John J. Clague, Giovanni B. Crosta, Tim Davies, Audray Delcamp, Philip Deline, Kenneth Hewitt, Oliver Korup, Samuel T. McColl, Bill Murphy, Natalya Reznichenko, Nicholas J. Roberts, Dan Shugar, Rosanna Sosio, Stefano Utili, Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, Gonghui Wang, Jeff Warburton, Janusz Wasowski, et al.
Editorial Foreword, Pages xi-xiii, John (Jack) Shroder
Preface, Pages xv-xvii, Tim Davies
Chapter 1 - Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: Introduction, Pages 1-16, Tim Davies
Chapter 2 - Landslide Causes and Triggers, Pages 17-42, Samuel T. McColl
Chapter 3 - Mass Movement in Bedrock, Pages 43-90, Marc-André Brideau, Nicholas J. Roberts
Chapter 4 - Coseismic Landslides, Pages 91-129, Bill Murphy
Chapter 5 - Volcanic Debris Avalanches, Pages 131-157, Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, Audray Delcamp
Chapter 6 - Peat Landslides, Pages 159-190, Jeff Warburton
Chapter 7 - Rock–Snow–Ice Avalanches, Pages 191-240, Rosanna Sosio
Chapter 8 - Multiple Landslide-Damming Episodes, Pages 241-261, Oliver Korup, Gonghui Wang
Chapter 9 - Rock Avalanches onto Glaciers, Pages 263-319, Philip Deline, Kenneth Hewitt, Natalya Reznichenko, Dan Shugar
Chapter 10 - Paleolandslides, Pages 321-344, John J. Clague
Chapter 11 - Remote Sensing of Landslide Motion with Emphasis on Satellite Multitemporal Interferometry Applications: An Overview, Pages 345-403, Janusz Wasowski, Fabio Bovenga
Chapter 12 - Small Landslides—Frequent, Costly, and Manageable, Pages 405-439, Elisabeth T. Bowman
Chapter 13 - Analysis Tools for Mass Movement Assessment, Pages 441-465, Stefano Utili, Giovanni B. Crosta
Index, Pages 467-473

✦ Subjects

Горно-геологическая отрасль;Инженерная геология и гидрогеология;