Landslide Science and Practice: Volume 4: Global Environmental Change

ISBN-13: 9783642313363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 431 str.

Claudio Margottini; Paolo Canuti; Kyoji Sassa

Opis

This is Volume 4 of the proceedings of the Second World Landslide Forum, held in Rome, in October, 2011. This volume focuses on Global Environmental Change.

Spis treści

Landslide Scenarios Accounting for the Climatic, Geomorphological and Geotechnical Context.- Landslides, Land-Use Systems and Food Security.- Wild Fires and Slope Instability.- Landslides and Extreme Weather.- Landslides as Sediment Sources.- Landslides in Cold Regions.

Blurb

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the fourth:

1. Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning,
2. Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring,
3. Spatial Analysis and Modelling,
4. Global Environmental Change,
5. Complex Environment,
6. Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation,
7. Social and Economic Impact and Policies.