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Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
- 2nd Edition - October 17, 2021
- Editors: Tim Davies, John F. Shroder, Nick Rosser
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 4 6 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 6 4 5 - 2
Landslide Hazards, Risks and Disasters Second Edition makes a broad but detailed examination of major aspects of mass movements and their consequences, and provides knowle… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLandslide Hazards, Risks and Disasters Second Edition makes a broad but detailed examination of major aspects of mass movements and their consequences, and provides knowledge to form the basis for more complete and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness and reduction of the impacts of landslides on society. The frequency and intensity of landslide hazards and disasters has consistently increased over the past century, and this trend will continue as society increasingly utilises steep landscapes. Landslides and related phenomena can be triggered by other hazard and disaster processes – such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and wildfires – and they can also cause other hazards and disasters, making them a complex multi-disciplinary challenge.
This new edition of Landslide Hazards, Risks and Disasters is updated and includes new chapters, covering additional topics including rockfalls, landslide interactions and impacts and geomorphic perspectives. Knowledge, understanding and the ability to model landslide processes are becoming increasingly important challenges for society extends its occupation of increasingly hilly and mountainous terrain, making this book a key resource for educators, researchers and disaster managers in geophysics, geology and environmental science.
This new edition of Landslide Hazards, Risks and Disasters is updated and includes new chapters, covering additional topics including rockfalls, landslide interactions and impacts and geomorphic perspectives. Knowledge, understanding and the ability to model landslide processes are becoming increasingly important challenges for society extends its occupation of increasingly hilly and mountainous terrain, making this book a key resource for educators, researchers and disaster managers in geophysics, geology and environmental science.
- Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the geological, seismological, physical, environmental and social impacts of landslides
- Presents the latest research on causality, impacts and landslide preparedness and mitigation. Includes numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, photographs and video captures of hazardous processes
- Discusses steps for planning for and responding to landslide hazards, risks and disasters
Geologists, geophysicists, seismologists, sedimentologists, geomorphologists, volcanologists, oceanographers, climatologists, environmental scientists, and hazard and risk scientists. Engineers, infrastructure planners, hazard analysts, risk managers, urban planners
1.Landslide hazards, risks and disasters: introduction
2. Landslide causes and triggers
3. Landslides in bedrock
4. Coseismic landslides
5. Volcanic debris avalanches
6. Peat landslides
7. Rock—snow—ice avalanches
8. Multiple landslide-damming episodes
9. Rock avalanches onto glaciers
10. Paleo-landslides
11. Remote sensing of landslide motion with emphasis on satellite multi-temporal interferometry
12. Small landslides e frequent, costly and manageable
13. Analysis tools for mass movement assessment
14. Landslides in a changing climate
15. Rockfall hazard and risk
16. Reducing landslide disaster impacts
17. Geomorphic precursors of large landslides: seismic preconditioning and slope-top benches
2. Landslide causes and triggers
3. Landslides in bedrock
4. Coseismic landslides
5. Volcanic debris avalanches
6. Peat landslides
7. Rock—snow—ice avalanches
8. Multiple landslide-damming episodes
9. Rock avalanches onto glaciers
10. Paleo-landslides
11. Remote sensing of landslide motion with emphasis on satellite multi-temporal interferometry
12. Small landslides e frequent, costly and manageable
13. Analysis tools for mass movement assessment
14. Landslides in a changing climate
15. Rockfall hazard and risk
16. Reducing landslide disaster impacts
17. Geomorphic precursors of large landslides: seismic preconditioning and slope-top benches
- No. of pages: 696
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: October 17, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128184646
- eBook ISBN: 9780128226452
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Tim Davies
Tim Davies is a Professor in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Canterbury (NZ). His research focusses on the application of geomorphology in prediction of landform response to disturbance, in particular in the context of natural hazard assessment and disaster impact reduction.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New ZealandJS
John F. Shroder
Dr. John (Jack) F. Shroder received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Union College in 1961; his masters in geology from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 1963, and his Ph.D. in geology at the University of Utah in 1967. He has been actively pursuing research on landforms and natural resources in the high mountain environments of the Rocky Mountains, the Afghanistan Hindu Kush, and the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan for over a half century. His teaching specialties have been primarily geomorphology, but also physical and historical geology and several other courses at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he was the founding professor of the Geology major. While there he was instrumental in founding the Center for Afghanistan Studies in 1972, and he was the lead geologist for the Bethsaida Archaeological Project in Israel in the 1990s. He taught geology as an NSF-, USAID, and Fulbright-sponsored professor at Kabul University in 1977-78, as well as a Fulbright award to Peshawar University in 1983-84. He has some 63 written or edited books to his credit and more than 200 professional papers, with emphases on landslides, glaciers, flooding, and mineral resources in Afghanistan. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received Distinguished Career awards from both the Mountain and the Geomorphology Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers. In the recent decade as an Emeritus Professor, he served as a Trustee of the Geological Society of America Foundation where he set up a research scholarship, the Shroder Mass Movement award for masters and doctoral candidates. For the past two decades, he has been the Editor-in-Chief for the Developments in Earth Surface Processes book series of Elsevier Publishing, as well as the 10-volumes of the Treatise on Geomorphology, and the Hazards, Risks, and Disasters book series, both in second editions. Recently, Dr. Shroder was ranked among the top 2 percent of researchers worldwide by the October study conducted by Stanford University.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Scholar, Center for Afghanistan Studies, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USANR
Nick Rosser
Nick Rosser is a Professor of Physical Geography at Durham University (UK). His research interests are around landslides and rockfalls, with a particular focus on high-resolution 4D monitoring of rock slope failure, and earthquake-triggered landslides.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Geography, Durham University, UKRead Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters on ScienceDirect