Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 420 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511740367
Content:
Landslides have geological causes but can be triggered by natural processes (rainfall, snowmelt, erosion and earthquakes) or by human actions such as agriculture and construction. Research aimed at better understanding slope stability and failure has accelerated in recent years, accompanied by basic field research and numerical modeling of slope failure processes, mechanisms of debris movement, and landslide causes and triggers. Written by 75 world-leading researchers and practitioners, this book provides a state-of-the-art summary of landslide science. It features both field geology and engineering approaches, as well as modeling of slope failure and run-out using a variety of numerical codes. It is illustrated with international case studies integrating geological, geotechnical and remote sensing studies and includes recent slope investigations in North America, Europe and Asia. This is an essential reference for researchers and graduate students in geomorphology, engineering geology, geotechnical engineering and geophysics, as well as professionals in natural hazard analysis
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Preface
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1. Landslide hazard and risk
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2. Landslides in the earth system
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3. Earthquake ground motion and patterns of seismically induced landsliding
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4. Landslides at stratovolcanoes initiated by volcanic unrest
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5. Mobility of long-runout rock avalanches
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6. Rapid rock-slope failures
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7. Risk assessment for debris flows
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8. Landslides in quick clay
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9. Controls on the distribution of major types of submarine landslides
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10. Tsunami hazard assessment related to slope failures in coastal waters
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11. Physical impacts of climate change on landslide occurrence and related adaptation
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12. Landslides and geological environments
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13. Numerical modeling of rock-slope instability
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14. Remote sensing techniques and landslides
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15. Engineering geomorphology of landslides
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16. Developments in landslide runout prediction
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17. Models of the triggering of landslides during earthquakes
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18. Slow rock-slope deformation
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19. Landslide monitoring: the role of investigative monitoring to improve understanding and early warning of failure
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20. Groundwater in slopes
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21. Soil slope stabilization
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22. Rockfall characterization and modeling
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23. The 2006 Eiger rockslide, European Alps
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24. Randa: kinematics and driving mechanisms of a large complex rockslide
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25. Characterization and management of rockslide hazard at Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada
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26. The Åknes rockslide, Norway
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27. A seismometric approach for back-analysing an unusual rockfall in the Appenines of Italy
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28. Downie Slide, British Columbia, Canada
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29. dtThe 1963 Vaiont landslide, Italy
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30. Hong Kong landslides
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31. Landslides induced by the Wenchuan earthquake
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32. Landslides on other planets
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107002067
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107002067
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511740367
