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Title:
Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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Series:
Hazards and disasters series
Physical Description:
xvii, 473 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780123964526

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Landslides are the most costly geo-hazard in the world, and they're often the cause or the result of other hazards and disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters makes a close and detailed examination of major mass movements and provides measures for more thorough and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness, and prevention. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while also discussing the impacts human-induced causes such as deforestation, blasting, and building construction--underscoring the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic.


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jshroder@mail.unomaha.edu


Table of Contents

Introduction
Mass movement classification
Mass movement in soils
Soil creep and valley bulging
Mass movement in bedrock masses
Slope stability analysis
Slope monitoring
Landslide hazard, investigation, and mapping
Cost-effective slope stabilization
Quicksands
Expansive clays
Dispersive soils
Collapsible soils
Quick clays
Problem-soils as most expensive geohazard in world
Role of water in mass movement and problem soils
Undersea landslides
Subsidence
Snow avalanches
Arid soil hazards
Peat and coalbed hazards
Climate change and increased mass movement in collapse of permafrost regions
Paleoslope failures
Dating mass movements and ground collapses
Field, aerial photograph, and remote sensing assessments
Quantitative analysis
Living near steep slopes & valley margins
Community preparedness, response & recovery
Implications of climate change