Slope Safety Preparedness for Impact of Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9780367885533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 572 str.

Ken Ho; Suzanne Lacasse; Luciano Picarelli

Opis

This book focuses on the potential effects of projected climate change on the stability of slopes and on landslide risk, the countermeasures required to address the new challenges, and the strategies adopted. The book is composed of 22 country/regional reports, together with an overview paper consolidating all the contributions with respect to four

Spis treści

1. Preparedness for Climate Change Impact on Slope Safety.

Country / Regional Reports
2. Technical report on landslide related disasters in Brazil
3. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Landslides Occurrence in Canada
4. Enhancing slope safety preparedness for extreme rainfall and potential climate change impacts in Hong Kong
5. Potential climate changes in Italy and consequences on land stability
6. Global warming and landslide disaster: evidences from Japan
7. Landslide risk management in Norway
8. Overview of landslides distribution in Russian Federation and variations of their activity due to climate change
9. Slope Safety Preparedness in Southeast Asia for Effects of Climate Change
10. Review of landslide occurrence in Spain and its relation to climate.
11. TR3 Project: Slope Safety Preparedness for Effects of Climate Change Contribution for Switzerland
12. Review of Landslide occurrence and climate change in Taiwan
13. Landslides and climate change in the United Kingdom
14. Landslide hazards and climate change: a perspective from the United States.

O autorze

Mr. Ken Ho obtained his BSc in civil engineering and his MSc in soil mechanics and engineering seismology, both from Imperial College London. He is currently the Deputy Head of the Geotechnical Engineering Office of the Hong Kong Government and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is also a core member of Joint Technical Committee JTC1 on Landslides under the auspices of the Federation of International Geo-engineering Societies (FedIGS) on Natural Slopes and Landslides, and has previously served as a core member of ISSMGE Technical Committee TC304 on Engineering Practice in Risk Assessment and Management. Ken has published over 100 papers on slope engineering, quantified risk assessment, earthquake, piling and deep excavations. He has presented a number of keynote papers and state-of-the-art papers at various international conferences. He is also the editor of several international conference proceedings and serves on the editorial boards of a number of geotechnical journals.

Dr. Suzanne Lacasse was educated in Civil Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique of Montréal and MIT. She was Managing Director of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) from 1991 to 2011, and now acts as Technical Director at NGI. She gave the 37th Terzaghi Lecture on Offshore Geotechnics in 2001 and the 55th Rankine Lecture on Hazard, Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Practice in 2015. Dr Lacasse received PhD's Honoris Causa from the University of Dundee and from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineers in the USA, Canada, Norway and France. She is Honorary Professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and Chair of the Slope Safety Technical Review Board in Hong Kong. She has given keynote lectures in over 30 countries, and is the author of over 300 scientific papers.

Professor Luciano Picarelli was educated in Civil Engineering at Un