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Summary
Summary
Landslides have geological causes but can be triggered by natural processes (rainfall, snowmelt, erosion and earthquakes) or by human actions such as agriculture and construction. Research aimed at better understanding slope stability and failure has accelerated in recent years, accompanied by basic field research and numerical modeling of slope failure processes, mechanisms of debris movement, and landslide causes and triggers. Written by seventy-five world-leading researchers and practitioners, this book provides a state-of-the-art summary of landslide science. It features both field geology and engineering approaches, as well as modeling of slope failure and run-out using a variety of numerical codes. It is illustrated with international case studies integrating geological, geotechnical and remote sensing studies, and includes recent slope investigations in North America, Europe and Asia. This is an essential reference for researchers and graduate students in geomorphology, engineering geology, geotechnical engineering and geophysics, as well as professionals in natural hazard analysis.
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Landslides, edited by Clague and Stead (both, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada), is clearly a reference work, not a textbook. It consists of 32 chapters by 78 authors, covering the vast majority of different kinds of landslides, with a heavy emphasis on numerical modeling, risk assessment, and monitoring. The only other comparable comprehensive landslide book available is A. Turner and R. Schuster's Landslides: Investigation and Mitigation (1996), which touches only briefly on modeling and risk assessment. After two overview chapters, the present book covers landslides associated with earthquakes, volcanoes, rock-slope failures, quick clays, and submarine slopes. One chapter deals with tsunamis caused by landslides. Subjects that this reviewer has not seen in other works include impacts of climate change on landslide occurrence and landslides on other planets. Nine chapters are devoted to in-depth case histories and analyses of famous land failures from around the world. A good list of references ends each chapter. The volume contains ample photos and illustrations, but some photos are of poor quality. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners. C. W. Dimmick emeritus, Central Connecticut State University
Table of Contents
| List of contributors |
| PrefaceJohn J. Clague and Doug Stead |
| 1 Landslide hazard and riskJohn J. Clague and Nick Roberts |
| 2 Landslides in the Earth systemOliver Korup |
| 3 Earthquake ground motion and patterns of seismically induced landslidingNiels Hovius and Patrick Meunier |
| 4 Landslides at stratovolcanoes initiated by volcanic unrestChristopher F. Waythomas |
| 5 Mobility of long-runout rock avalanchesTim Davies and Mauri McSaveney |
| 6 Rapid rock slope failuresReginald L. Hermanns and Oddvar Longva |
| 7 Risk assessment for debris flowsMatthias Jakob and Kris Holm |
| 8 Landslides in quick clayJ. Kenneth Torrance |
| 9 Controls on the distribution of major types of submarine landslidesDavid J. W. Piper and David C. Mosher and D. Calvin Campbell |
| 10 Tsunami hazard assessment related to slope failures in coastal watersBrian D. Bornhold and Richard E. Thomson |
| 11 Physical impacts of climate change on landslide occurrence and related adaptationChristian Huggel and N. Khabarov and Oliver Korup and M. Obersteinter |
| 12 Landslides and geological environmentsRobin Fell and David Stapledon and Patrick MacGregor |
| 13 Numerical modeling of rock slope instabilityDoug Stead and John Coggan |
| 14 Remote sensing techniques and landslidesDavid Petley |
| 15 Engineering geomorphology of landslidesJames S. Griffiths and Malcolm Whitworth |
| 16 Developments in landslide runout predictionScott McDougall and Mika McKinnon and Oldrich Hungr |
| 17 Models of the triggering of landslides during earthquakesRandall W. Jibson |
| 18 Slow rock slope deformationFederico Agliardi and Giovanni B. Crosta and Paolo Frattini |
| 19 Landslide monitoring: the role of investigative monitoring to improve understanding and early warning of failureErik Eberhardt |
| 20 Groundwater in slopesLuciano Picarelli and S. Leroueil and L. Olivares and L. Pagano and P. Tommasi and G. Urciuoli |
| 21 Soil slope stabilizationEdward N. Bromhead and Seyyedmahdi Hosseyni and Nobuyuki Torii |
| 22 Rock fall characterization and modelingPaolo Frattini and Giovanni B. Crosta and Federico Agliardi |
| 23 The 2006 Eiger rockslide, European AlpsMichel Jaboyedoff and Marc-Henri Derron and Julien Jakubowski and Thierry Oppikofer and Andrea Pedrazzini |
| 24 Randa: kinematics and driving mechanisms of a large complex rockslideSimon Loew and V. Gischig and H. Willenberg and A. Alpiger and J. R. Moore |
| 25 Characterization and management of rockslide hazard at Turtle Mountain, Alberta, CanadaCorey R. Froese and Marie Charrière and Florian Humair and Michel Jaboyedoff and Andrea Pedrazzini |
| 26 The åknes rockslide, Norway LarsHarald Blikra |
| 27 A seismometric approach for back-analysing an unusual rockfall in the Appenines of ItalyG. Bianchi Fasani and C. Esposito and S. Martino and G. Scarascia Mugnozza and L. Lenti and M. Pecci |
| 28 Downie Slide, British Columbia, CanadaKatherine Kalenchuk and D. Jean Hutchinson and Mark Diederichs and Dennis Moore |
| 29 The 1963 Vaiont landslide, ItalyMonica Ghirotti |
| 30 Hong Kong landslidesS. R. Hencher and A. W. Malone |
| 31 Landslides induced by the Wenchuan earthquakeMashiro Chigira and Wang Gonghui and Wu Xiyong |
| 32 Landslides on other planetsM. H. K. Bulmer |
| Index |
