
Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
- 2nd Edition - October 17, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: John F. Shroder, Tim Davies, 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
- 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
- Edition: 2
- Published: October 17, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 696
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128184646
- eBook ISBN: 9780128226452
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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, USATD
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 ZealandNR
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