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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

Volume 2 From Mapping to Hazard and Risk Zonation

  • Targeted at the global landslide community
  • Presents the state-of-the-art in landslide hazard and vulnerability mapping and zonation
  • Reports case studies and best practice for a better understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk

Part of the book series: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction (CLDRR)

Conference series link(s): WLF: Workshop on World Landslide Forum

Conference proceedings info: WLF 2020.

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Table of contents (57 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
  2. Introduction to the Volume ‘From Mapping to Hazard and Risk Zonation’

    • Paola Reichenbach, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas, Fausto Guzzetti
    Pages 1-5
  3. Landslide Recognition and Mapping

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
    2. New Landslide Inventory Map of the Sudetes Mountains (South-Western Poland)

      • Rafał Sikora, Tomasz Wojciechowski
      Pages 59-65
    3. Gullies as Landforms for Landslide Initiation—Examples from the Dubračina River Basin (Croatia)

      • Petra Jagodnik, Vedran Jagodnik, Željko Arbanas, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas
      Pages 67-73
    4. Landslide Mapping Based on UAV Photogrammetry Using SfM—The Prnjavor Čuntićki Landslide Case Study, Croatia

      • Vedran Damjanović, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas, Sanja Bernat Gazibara, Josip Peranić, Marin Sečanj, Martin Krkač et al.
      Pages 95-101
    5. Developing Recognition and Simple Mapping by UAV/SfM for Local Resident in Mountainous Area in Vietnam—A Case Study in Po Xi Ngai Community, Laocai Province

      • Nguyen Kim Thanh, Toyohiko Miyagi, Shinobu Isurugi, Dinh Van Tien, Le Hong Luong, Do Ngoc Ha
      Pages 103-109
    6. Damming Predisposition of River Networks: A Mapping Methodology

      • Carlo Tacconi Stefanelli, Nicola Casagli, Filippo Catani
      Pages 127-132
    7. Landslides Along Halong-Vandon Expressway in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam

      • Pham Van Tien, Le Hong Luong, Le Minh Nhat, Nguyen Kim Thanh, Phuong Van Cuong
      Pages 133-139
  4. Landslide Hazard Assessment and Zonation—Susceptibility Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
    2. New Data on Geological Conditions of Landslide Activity on Vorobyovy Gory (Moscow, Russia)

      • Olga Barykina, Oleg Zerkal, Igor Averin, Eugene Samarin
      Pages 143-148
    3. Impact of Agricultural Management in Vineyards to Landslides Susceptibility in Italian Apennines

      • Massimiliano Bordoni, Alberto Vercesi, Michael Maerker, Valerio Vivaldi, Claudia Meisina
      Pages 149-156

About this book

This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the followings:

• Keynotes

• Landslide detection, recognition and mapping

• Landslide susceptibility assessment and modelling

• Landslide size statistics and temporal modelling

• Data and information for landslide disaster mitigation

• Vulnerability to landslides of people, communities and the built environment

Dr. Fausto Guzzetti is General Director of Office III – Technical and Scientific Activities for Risk Forecasting and Prevention, Department of Civil Protection, Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, on leave from the Italian National Research Council.

Prof. Snježana Mihalić Arbanas is a Full Professor of the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering of theUniversity of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the Chair of ICL Network Committee.

Paola Reichenbach is a Senior Researcher of the Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, an institute of the Italian National Research Council (IRPI-CNR), Perugia, Italy.

Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President and the Secretary-General of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.

Prof. Peter Bobrowsky is the President of the International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

Prof. Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of the International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil Protection, Rome, Italy

    Fausto Guzzetti

  • Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Snježana Mihalić Arbanas

  • Research institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (Italian National Research Council), Perugia, Italy

    Paola Reichenbach

  • International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

    Peter T. Bobrowsky

  • Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (Shishu-kan), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Kaoru Takara

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 2 From Mapping to Hazard and Risk Zonation

  • Editors: Fausto Guzzetti, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas, Paola Reichenbach, Kyoji Sassa, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kaoru Takara

  • Series Title: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60227-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60226-0Published: 23 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60229-1Published: 24 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60227-7Published: 22 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-1894

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-1908

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 505

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 385 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy

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eBook USD 149.00
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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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