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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

Volume 2 From Mapping to Hazard and Risk Zonation

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  • 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

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Table of contents (57 chapters)

  1. Landslide Recognition and Mapping

  2. Landslide Hazard Assessment and Zonation—Susceptibility Modelling

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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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