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Global environmental change

Claudio Margottini, Paolo Canuti, Kyoji Sassa, editors

(Landslide science and practice, v. 4)

Springer, c2013

  • : hbk

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"The Second World Landslide Forum (WLF) was organized at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy, on 3-9 October 2011"--Pref

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Description

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the fourth: 1. Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning, 2. Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring, 3. Spatial Analysis and Modelling, 4. Global Environmental Change, 5. Complex Environment, 6. Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation, 7. Social and Economic Impact and Policies.

Table of Contents

Landslide Scenarios Accounting for the Climatic, Geomorphological and Geotechnical Context.- Landslides, Land-Use Systems and Food Security.- Wild Fires and Slope Instability.- Landslides and Extreme Weather.- Landslides as Sediment Sources.- Landslides in Cold Regions.

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