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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

Volume 5 Landslides in Different Environments

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2017

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  • 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

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Landslide Interactions with the Built Environment

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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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