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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298366503321

Titolo

Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment : Vol.1:  The International Programme on Landslides (IPL) / / edited by Kyoji Sassa, Paolo Canuti, Yueping Yin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-04999-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (515 p.)

Disciplina

333.7

551

551.307

624.15

Soggetti

Environmental management

Engineering geology

Engineering—Geology

Foundations

Hydraulics

Natural disasters

Environmental Management

Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics

Natural Hazards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Progress in Large-scale Landslide Studies in China -- Progress in Living with landslide risk in Europe -- Progress in Regional landslide hazard assessment -- Progress in Landslide Dynamics -- International Programme on Landslides -- Thematic and Regional Networks on Landslides -- Policy, Legislation and Guidelines on Landslides -- Climate & Landuse Change Impacts on Landslides -- Recognition and Mechanics of Landslide -- Risk Controlling on Landslides for Key Facilities and Urbanization -- General Landslide Studies -- Building Resilient Landscapes -- Selected papers from Student session and



'Landslide Teaching tools'.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Third World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in June 2014. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in three full-color volumes and one mono-color volume. This first full-color volume contains the following: Plenary lectures International programme on landslides Thematic and regional networks on landslides Policy, legislation, and guidelines on landslides Climate and landuse change impacts on landslides Recognition and mechanics of landslides General landslide studies Student sessions, landslide teaching tools, and other side events.