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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

Volume 5 Landslides in Different Environments

  • Landslides in different climate zones around the world
  • Techniques for landslide age dating
  • Impacts of landslides on infrastructure, buildings and engineering works
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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

Conference proceedings info: WLF 2017.

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Landslide Interactions with the Built Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Session Introduction—Landslide Interaction with the Built Environment

      • M. G. Winter, T. A. Dijkstra, J. Wasowski
      Pages 3-4
    3. Landslide Risk Assessment for the Built Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Peter Redshaw, Tom Dijkstra, Matthew Free, Colm Jordan, Anna Morley, Stuart Fraser
      Pages 5-12
    4. RUPOK: An Online Landslide Risk Tool for Road Networks

      • Michal Bíl, Richard Andrášik, Jan Kubeček, Zuzana Křivánková, Rostislav Vodák
      Pages 19-26
    5. The Impact (Blight) on House Value Caused by Urban Landslides in England and Wales

      • William Disberry, Andy Gibson, Rob Inkpen, Malcolm Whitworth, Claire Dashwood, Mike Winter
      Pages 27-32
    6. New Perspectives on Landslide Assessment for Spatial Planning in Austria

      • Arben Kociu, Leonhard Schwarz, Karl Hagen, Florian Rudolf-Miklau
      Pages 45-50
    7. Characterisation of Recent Debris Flow Activity at the Rest and Be Thankful, Scotland

      • Bradley Sparkes, Stuart Dunning, Michael Lim, Mike G. Winter
      Pages 51-58
    8. Gediminas’s Castle Hill (in Vilnius) Case: Slopes Failure Through Historical Times Until Present

      • Vidas Milkulėnas, Vytautas Minkevičius, Jonas Satkūnas
      Pages 69-76
    9. Design Criteria and Risk Management of New Construction in Landslide Areas: The Case of the Djendjen–El Eulma Highway (Algeria)

      • Mirko Vendramini, Attilio Eusebio, Fabrizio Peruzzo, Patrizia Vitale, Alessandro Fassone, Francesca Guazzotti
      Pages 77-87
    10. Landslides Impact Analysis Along the National Road 73C of Romania

      • Andreea Andra-Topârceanu, Mihai Mafteiu, Razvan Gheorghe, Mircea Andra-Topârceanu, Mihaela Verga
      Pages 101-110
    11. Evaluation of Building Damages Induced by Landslides in Volterra Area (Italy) Through Remote Sensing Techniques

      • Silvia Bianchini, Teresa Nolesini, Matteo Del Soldato, Nicola Casagli
      Pages 111-120
    12. The Resilience of Some Villages 36 Years After the Irpinia-Basilicata (Southern Italy) 1980 Earthquake

      • Sabina Porfido, Giuliana Alessio, Germana Gaudiosi, Rosa Nappi, Efisio Spiga
      Pages 121-133
    13. Comprehensive Overview of Historical and Actual Slope Movements in the Medieval Inhabited Citadel of Sighisoara

      • Andreea Andra-Topârceanu, Mihai Mafteiu, Mircea Andra-Topârceanu, Mihaela Verga
      Pages 147-157

About this book

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in five full-color volumes. This fifth volume contains the following:

•   Landslide Interactionswith the Built Environment

•   Landslides in Natural Environment

•   Landslides and Water

•   Landslides as Environmental Change Proxies: Looking at the Past

•   Student Papers

Prof. Matjaž Mikoš is the Forum Chair of the Fourth World Landslide Forum. He is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides and President of the Slovenian National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Assoc. Prof. Vít Vilímek is the editor of Volume 5. He is member of the Evaluation committee of International Consortium on Landslides and head of the Czech Geomorphological Association.

Prof. Yueping Yin is the President of the International Consortium on Landslides and the Chairman of the Committee of Geo-Hazards Prevention of China, and the Chief Geologist of Geo-Hazard Emergency Technology, Ministry of Land and Resources, P.R. China.

Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He is Executive Director of ICL and the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal “Landslides” since its foundation in 2004.

IPL (International Programme on Landslides) is a programme of the ICL. The programme is managed by the IPL Global Promotion Committee including ICL and ICL supporting organizations, UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU, WFEO, IUGS and IUGG. The IPL contributes to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Matjaž Mikoš

  • Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vít Vilímek

  • China Institute of Geo-Environment Monitoring, China Geological Survey, Beijing, China

    Yueping Yin

  • International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 5 Landslides in Different Environments

  • Editors: Matjaž Mikoš, Vít Vilímek, Yueping Yin, Kyoji Sassa

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53483-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53482-4Published: 20 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10414-6Published: 09 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53483-1Published: 17 May 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 557

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 358 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Sustainable Development

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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