Landslide Risk Management

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-38043-0
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 774 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1723 g

Landslide Risk Management comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 31 to June 3, 2005. The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures, prepared by teams of authors selected for their experience in specific topics assigned to them by the JTC-1 Committee. The second part is a selection of papers submitted to the conference, most of which serve as case-history illustrations of projects on landslide risk management. This reference work presents the current status of landslide risk management as viewed by experts from around the world.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hungr, Oldrich

Fell, Robin

Couture, Rejean

Eberhardt, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geomorphologie, Erosion, Glaziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

State of the art papers
Invited papers
Sessions:

National landslide risk strategies
Case histories: hazard characterization
Case histories: risk assessment and management
Hazard and risk assessment: linear projects
Hazard and risk assessment: individual landslide projects
Methodology: hazard characterization
Remedial works and early warning systems

Über Autor(innen)

Oldrich Hungr, Robin Fell, Réjean Couture, Erik Eberhardt