Overview
- Explains how landslides that occur catastrophically, as well as their sudden (catastrophic) effects such as outburst floods, pose a major threat to the society
- Focuses on seismically induced catastrophic landslides; Giant large-scale landslides in mountainous regions – motion mechanism(s) and effects; Catastrophic landslides triggered by climatic factors; Landslides as triggers of
- Outburst Floods; Landslides and reservoirs
- Targeted at academia, United Nations organizations, governmental organizations and NGOs, and private sectors in the global landslide community
Part of the book series: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction (CLDRR)
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Conference proceedings info: WLF 2020.
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Catastrophic Landslides with Different Triggers
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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:
Part I with topics is mainly about landslides and earthquakes; landslide dams and outburst floods; catastrophic large-scale landslides in mountainous regions.
Part II with topics is mainly about impact of climate change; loess landslides; mapping, monitoring and modeling of landslides; stabilization and mitigation; application of new technology in landslide studies.
Prof. Vít Vilímek is the vice-president of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) and a member of the evaluation committee, Editor-in-Chief of the university journal AUC Geographica and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Geoenvironmental Disasters. He is a Professor of Physical Geography at Charles University,Prague, Czech Republic.
Prof. Fawu Wang is the President of the International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR) and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Geoenvironmental Disasters. He is a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China.
Dr. Alexander Strom is a chief expert at the Geodynamics Research Center LLC, Moscow, Russia. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Chang’an University, Xi’an, China, Visiting Professor at SKLGP, Chengdu, China, and an alternative representative of the JSC “Hydroproject Institute” in ICL.
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 Takarais 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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk
Book Subtitle: Volume 5 Catastrophic Landslides and Frontiers of Landslide Science
Editors: Vít Vilímek, Fawu Wang, Alexander Strom, Kyoji Sassa, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kaoru Takara
Series Title: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60319-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60318-2Published: 22 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60321-2Published: 23 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60319-9Published: 21 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-1894
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1908
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 427
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 418 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy