Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

2nd Edition - October 17, 2021
Imprint: Elsevier
Editors: Tim Davies, John F. Shroder, Nick Rosser
Language: English
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Landslide 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.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Editorial foreword to the second edition
Chapter 1. Landslide hazards, risks and disasters: introduction
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Understanding landslide hazards
1.3. Understanding landslide risks
1.4. Understanding future landslide disasters
1.5. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Landslide causes and triggers
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Concept of instability
2.3. Stability factors
2.4. Summary and conclusion
Chapter 3. Landslides in bedrock
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Rock materials
3.3. Mass movement characteristics
3.4. Mass movement types
3.5. Case studies
3.6. Bedrock landslide recognition and management
3.7. Risk management of rock slopes
3.8. Summary
Chapter 4. Coseismic landslides
4.1. Seismically triggered landslides
4.2. Mechanics of earthquake-induced landslides
4.3. Stability analysis and hazard assessment
4.4. Limitations of current understanding
Chapter 5. Volcanic debris avalanches
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Volcanic debris avalanches
5.3. Types of volcanic landslides
5.4. Deep-seated volcanic landslide deformation: priming and triggers
5.5. Deep-seated volcano gravitational deformation
5.6. Regional tectonic influences
5.7. Priming of volcanic landslides
5.8. Triggering volcanic landslides
5.9. The structure of volcanic landslides
5.10. Volcanic landslide deposits
5.11. Debris avalanche textures and structures
5.12. Secondary hazards of volcanic landslides
5.13. Volcanic landslide transport mechanisms
5.14. Hazards from volcanic landslides
5.15. Summary
Chapter 6. Peat landslides
6.1. Introduction and background
6.2. The nature of peat, its structure and material properties
6.3. Morphology and classification of peat landslides
6.4. Relationship between landslide type and peat stratigraphy
6.5. Impacts of peat landslides
6.6. The runout of peat landslides
6.7. Slope stability analysis of peat landslides and geotechnical properties
6.8. Historical perspective on the frequency of peat landslides
6.9. The future incidence of peat landslides
6.10. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Rock–snow–ice avalanches
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Rapid mass movements on glaciers
7.3. RSI avalanche propagation
7.4. Implications for hazard assessment
7.5. Conclusions
Chapter 8. Multiple landslide-damming episodes
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Previous work on landslide dams
8.3. Landslide-dam episodes: lessons from case studies
8.4. Discussion
8.5. Conclusions
Chapter 9. Rock avalanches onto glaciers
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Processes
9.3. Consequences
9.4. Case studies
9.5. Concluding remarks
Chapter 10. Paleo-landslides
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Significance of paleo-landslides
10.3. Recognition and mapping
10.4. Dating paleo-landslides
10.5. Temporal bias
10.6. Role in landscape evolution
10.7. Risk assessment
10.8. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Remote sensing of landslide motion with emphasis on satellite multi-temporal interferometry applications: an overview
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Brief introduction to DInSAR and Multi-Temporal Interferometry
11.3. Examples of different scale MTI applications to landslide motion detection and monitoring
11.4. Summary discussion
Chapter 12. Small landslides – frequent, costly and manageable
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Costs of small–medium landslides
12.3. Frequency of landslides
12.4. Management of landslides
12.5. Size of manageable landslides
12.6. Conclusions
Chapter 13. Analysis tools for mass movement assessment
13.1. Introduction
13.2. The computational tools available
13.3. Limit equilibrium methods
13.4. Limit analysis
13.5. Continuum numerical methods
13.6. Distinct element method
13.7. Conclusions
Chapter 14. Landslides in a changing climate
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Rockfalls, rockslides and rock avalanches
14.3. Shallow landslides and debris flows
14.4. Deep-seated landslides in soil
14.5. Coastal landslides
14.6. Landslides in the cryosphere
14.7. Regional scale landslide response
14.8. Landslide risk and economic considerations
14.9. Adaptation and mitigation
14.10. Summary
14.11. Discussion and recommendations
14.12. Concluding remarks
Chapter 15. Rockfall hazard and risk
15.1. Background
15.2. Definitions
15.3. Case study 1: assessing rockfall hazard, North Yorkshire coast, UK
15.4. Vulnerability to rockfall
15.5. Case study 2: Port Hills, Christchurch, NZ
15.6. Summary and conclusions
Chapter 16. Reducing landslide disaster impacts
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Disaster risk reduction: terminology and implications
16.3. Fundamental weakness of DRR
16.4. Disaster impacts
16.5. Landslide disaster impact reduction
16.6. Reducing the impacts of the next landslide disaster: a scenario approach
16.7. Discussion
16.8. Conclusions
Chapter 17. Geomorphic precursors of large landslides: seismic preconditioning and slope-top benches
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Slope-top benches
17.3. Mountain edifice response to coseismic shaking
17.4. Field evidence
17.5. Example of possible hazard: slope overlooking Franz Josef glacier township
17.6. Discussion
17.7. Conclusions
Index

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.

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Professor, School of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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, USA

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, UK

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