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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298369903321

Titolo

Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment : Volume 3:  Targeted Landslides / / edited by Kyoji Sassa, Paolo Canuti, Yueping Yin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

3-319-04996-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (690 p.)

Disciplina

333.7

551

551.307

624.15

Soggetti

Environment

Engineering geology

Engineering—Geology

Foundations

Hydraulics

Natural disasters

Environment, general

Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics

Natural Hazards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005- 2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA) , adopted at the 2nd World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, in January 2005), represents the most comprehensive actionoriented policy guidance in universal understanding of disasters induced by vulnerability to natural hazards and reflects a solid commitment to implementation of an effective disaster reduction agenda."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Debris Flows -- Rock-Slope Instability and Failure -- Earthquake-Induced Landslides -- Rain-Induced Landslides -- Landslides in Cultural/Natural Heritage Sites -- Urban Landslides -- Landslides in Cold Regions -- Landslide in Coastal and Submarine Environments -- Natural Dams and Landslides in Reservoirs.



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 third full-color volume contains the following:   ·        Debris flows ·        Rock-slope instability and failure ·        Earthquake-induced landslides ·        Rain-induced landslides ·        Landslides in cultural/natural heritage sites ·        Urban landslides ·        Landslides in cold regions ·        Landslides in coastal and submarine environments ·        Natural dams and landslides in reservoirs.