Landslide Science and Practice [electronic resource] : Volume 4: Global Environmental Change / edited by Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti, Kyoji Sassa.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: XVII, 431 p. 392 illus., 350 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642313370Subject(s): geography | geology | Physical geography | Hydraulic engineering | earth sciences | Natural Hazards | Physical Geography | Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics | Geomorphology | Environmental Science and EngineeringDDC classification: 551 LOC classification: GB5000-5030Online resources: Click here to access onlineLandslide 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.
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: Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning, Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring, Spatial Analysis and Modelling, Global Environmental Change, Complex Environment, Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation, Social and Economic Impact and Policies.
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