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Landslide Risk Management comprises the Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, May 31 to June 3, 2005. It contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures. as well as a selection of papers submitted to the conference, most of which serve as case history illustrations of projects on landslide risk management.

With climate change and deforestation, debris flows and debris avalanches have become the most significant landslide hazards in many countries. In recent years there have been numerous debris flow avalanches in Southern Europe, South America and the Indian Subcontinent, resulting in major catastrophes and large loss of life. This is therefore a major high-profile problem for the world's governments and for the engineers and scientists concerned.

Matthias Jakob and Oldrich Hungr are ideally suited to edit this book. Matthias Jakob has worked on debris flow for over a decade and has...