Davies Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-12-396475-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 492 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Tim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Contents;6
5;Contributors;10
6;Editorial Foreword;12
7;Preface;16
8;Chapter 1 - Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: Introduction;20
8.1;1.1 INTRODUCTION;20
8.2;1.2 UNDERSTANDING LANDSLIDE HAZARDS;21
8.3;1.3 UNDERSTANDING LANDSLIDE RISKS;25
8.4;1.4 UNDERSTANDING FUTURE LANDSLIDE DISASTERS;28
8.5;1.5 CONCLUSION;32
8.6;REFERENCES;33
9;Chapter 2 - Landslide Causes and Triggers;36
9.1;2.1 INTRODUCTION;36
9.2;2.2 CONCEPT OF INSTABILITY;38
9.3;2.3 STABILITY FACTORS;45
9.4;2.4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION;57
9.5;REFERENCES;57
10;Chapter 3 - Mass Movement in Bedrock;62
10.1;3.1 INTRODUCTION;62
10.2;3.2 ROCK MATERIALS;63
10.3;3.3 MASS MOVEMENT CHARACTERISTICS;69
10.4;3.4 MASS MOVEMENT TYPES;72
10.5;3.5 CASE STUDIES;79
10.6;3.6 RECOGNITION AND RESPONSE;86
10.7;3.7 RISK MANAGEMENT IN ROCK SLOPES;90
10.8;REFERENCES;92
11;Chapter 4 - Coseismic Landslides;110
11.1;4.1 SEISMICALLY TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES;110
11.2;4.2 MECHANICS OF EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED LANDSLIDES;120
11.3;4.3 STABILITY ANALYSIS AND HAZARD ASSESSMENT;132
11.4;4.4 LIMITATIONS OF CURRENT UNDERSTANDING;140
11.5;REFERENCES;144
12;Chapter 5 - Volcanic Debris Avalanches;150
12.1;5.1 INTRODUCTION;150
12.2;5.2 VOLCANIC DEBRIS AVALANCHES;153
12.3;5.3 TYPES OF VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES;153
12.4;5.4 DEEP-SEATED VOLCANIC LANDSLIDE DEFORMATION: PRIMING AND TRIGGERS;156
12.5;5.5 DEEP-SEATED VOLCANO GRAVITATIONAL DEFORMATION;157
12.6;5.6 REGIONAL TECTONIC INFLUENCES;159
12.7;5.7 PRIMING OF VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES;159
12.8;5.8 TRIGGERING VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES;160
12.9;5.9 THE STRUCTURE OF VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES;161
12.10;5.10 VOLCANIC LANDSLIDE DEPOSITS;162
12.11;5.11 DEBRIS AVALANCHE TEXTURES AND STRUCTURES;167
12.12;5.12 SECONDARY HAZARDS OF VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES;169
12.13;5.13 VOLCANIC LANDSLIDE TRANSPORT MECHANISMS;169
12.14;5.14 HAZARDS FROM VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES;170
12.15;5.15 SUMMARY;171
12.16;REFERENCES;172
13;Chapter 6 - Peat Landslides;178
13.1;6.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND;178
13.2;6.2 THE NATURE OF PEAT, ITS STRUCTURE, AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES;181
13.3;6.3 MORPHOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION OF PEAT LANDSLIDES;183
13.4;6.4 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANDSLIDE TYPE AND PEAT STRATIGRAPHY;186
13.5;6.5 IMPACTS OF PEAT LANDSLIDES;189
13.6;6.6 THE RUNOUT OF PEAT LANDSLIDES;197
13.7;6.7 SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS OF PEAT LANDSLIDES AND GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES;199
13.8;6.8 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FREQUENCY OF PEAT LANDSLIDES;202
13.9;6.9 THE FUTURE INCIDENCE OF PEAT LANDSLIDES;203
13.10;6.10 CONCLUSION;205
13.11;REFERENCES;206
14;Chapter 7 - Rock–Snow–Ice Avalanches;210
14.1;7.1 INTRODUCTION;210
14.2;7.2 RAPID MASS MOVEMENTS ON GLACIERS;219
14.3;7.3 RSI AVALANCHE PROPAGATION;235
14.4;7.4 IMPLICATIONS FOR HAZARD ASSESSMENT;242
14.5;7.5 CONCLUSIONS;247
14.6;REFERENCES;249
15;Chapter 8 - Multiple Landslide-Damming Episodes;260
15.1;8.1 INTRODUCTION;260
15.2;8.2 PREVIOUS WORK ON LANDSLIDE DAMS;263
15.3;8.3 LANDSLIDE-DAM EPISODES: LESSONS FROM CASE STUDIES;264
15.4;8.4 DISCUSSION;275
15.5;8.5 CONCLUSIONS;277
15.6;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;278
15.7;REFERENCES;278
16;Chapter 9 - Rock Avalanches onto Glaciers;282
16.1;9.1 INTRODUCTION;282
16.2;9.2 PROCESSES;290
16.3;9.3 CONSEQUENCES;310
16.4;9.4 CASE STUDIES;320
16.5;9.5 CONCLUSIONS;329
16.6;REFERENCES;329
17;Chapter 10 - Paleolandslides;340
17.1;10.1 INTRODUCTION;340
17.2;10.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF PALEOLANDSLIDES;342
17.3;10.3 RECOGNITION AND MAPPING;343
17.4;10.4 DATING PALEOLANDSLIDES;350
17.5;10.5 TEMPORAL BIAS;354
17.6;10.6 ROLE IN LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION;357
17.7;10.7 RISK ASSESSMENT;357
17.8;10.8 CONCLUSION;360
17.9;REFERENCES;360
18;Chapter 11 - Remote Sensing of Landslide Motion with Emphasis on Satellite Multitemporal Interferometry Applications: An Ov ...;364
18.1;11.1 INTRODUCTION;365
18.2;11.2 BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY AND MULTITEMPORAL INTERFEROMETRY;368
18.3;11.3 EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT SCALE MTI APPLICATIONS TO LANDSLIDE MOTION DETECTION AND MONITORING;378
18.4;11.4 SUMMARY DISCUSSION;402
18.5;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;414
18.6;REFERENCES;414
19;Chapter 12 - Small Landslides—Frequent, Costly, and Manageable;424
19.1;12.1 INTRODUCTION;424
19.2;12.2 COSTS OF SMALL-MEDIUM LANDSLIDES;425
19.3;12.3 FREQUENCY OF LANDSLIDES;428
19.4;12.4 MANAGEMENT OF LANDSLIDES;428
19.5;12.5 SIZE OF MANAGEABLE LANDSLIDES;434
19.6;12.6 CONCLUSIONS;453
19.7;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;454
19.8;REFERENCES;454
20;Chapter 13 - Analysis Tools for Mass Movement Assessment;460
20.1;13.1 INTRODUCTION;460
20.2;13.2 THE COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS AVAILABLE;461
20.3;13.3 LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM METHODS;466
20.4;13.4 LIMIT ANALYSIS;476
20.5;13.5 CONTINUUM NUMERICAL METHODS;478
20.6;13.6 DISTINCT ELEMENT METHOD;479
20.7;13.7 CONCLUSIONS;481
20.8;REFERENCES;481
21;Index;486