Landslide Science and Practice: Volume 4: Global Environmental Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Rock Glacier Degradation and Instabilities in the European Alps: A Characterisation and Monitoring Experiment in the Turtmanntal, CH....Pages 5-13
Potential Effects of Climate Change on Slope Stability in Unsaturated Pyroclastic Soils....Pages 15-25
Recent Mass Movements in the Tramuntana Range (Majorca, Spain)....Pages 27-35
Climate Variability and Landslide Occurrence in Apulia (Southern Italy)....Pages 37-41
Geotechnical and Mineralogical Characterisation of Soils from Landslide Scars and Inferred Sliding Mechanism: Case of Limbe, SW Cameroon....Pages 43-49
Large Reactivated Earth Flows in the Northern Apennines (Italy): An Overview....Pages 51-58
The Impact of Climatic Changes on the Behaviour of Active Landslides in Clay....Pages 59-67
Research on Chuni Landslide Geological Evolution Process....Pages 69-73
A Geotechnical Explanation for the Transition from Creep to Slides in the Alpine Foreland....Pages 75-78
Pore Pressure Fluctuations Within Quasi-Stable Slopes in South-Western Estonia and Their Influence on Slope Stability....Pages 79-85
Triggering Factors of Landslides and Determination of Rainfall Threshold: A Case Study from North East India....Pages 87-92
Changing Patterns in Climate-Driven Landslide Hazard: An Alpine Test Site....Pages 93-98
Recent Landslides with Economical and Human Losses in Medellin City (Colombia)....Pages 99-105
Analysis of the Rainfall Preceding the Activation of the Large Maierato Landslide in 2010....Pages 107-114
Quick Clay Landslides, Landscape Evolution, and Climate Change: A Perspective from British Columbia....Pages 115-120
Short Term Weather Forecasting for Shallow Landslide Prediction....Pages 121-129
Variation in the Occurrence of Rainfall Events Triggering Landslides....Pages 131-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-140
Landslides, Land-Use Systems and Food Security....Pages 141-143
Landslides in Bududa, Eastern Uganda: Preliminary Assessment and Proposed Solutions....Pages 145-149
Landslides, Land Use Systems and Food Security....Pages 151-161
Front Matter....Pages 139-140
Anthropogenic Activity Triggering Landslides in Densely Populated Mountain Areas....Pages 163-167
A Neglected Disaster: Landslides and Livelihoods in Central-Eastern Nepal....Pages 169-176
Strategies and Options to Address Land Degradation Due to Landslides: Bhutanese Scenarios....Pages 177-182
Rainfall Variability, Landslides and Food Security in Himalaya....Pages 183-189
Watershed Management: An Approach for Landslide Risk Reduction Through Integrated Landuse Planning....Pages 191-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Limiting the Immediate and Subsequent Hazards Associated with Wildfires....Pages 199-209
Remote Sensing and Geospatial Support to Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Teams in Assessing Wildfire Effects to Hillslopes....Pages 211-215
Rockfall and Debris Flow Hazards After Summer Wildfires in Cerreto Sannita, Benevento, Italy....Pages 217-225
Flexible Debris Flow Barriers in Fire Burned Areas....Pages 227-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Recommending Regional Rainfall Threshold Values for Early Warning of Landslides in the Asian Region....Pages 235-241
Flood and Slope Processes in the Scura Valley (Reatini Mts., Central Apennines, Italy). Meteo-climatic Analysis and Geomorphological Evolution....Pages 243-248
Snowmelt Modelling for Improving the Forecasts of Rainfall Threshold-Based Landslide Triggering....Pages 249-255
Defining Rainfall Thresholds for Early Warning of Rainfall-Triggered Landslides: The Case of North-East Sicily....Pages 257-263
Mechanisms of the Recent Catastrophic Landslides in the Mountainous Range of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....Pages 265-270
A Regional Real Time Landslide Warning System Based on Spatially Variable Rainfall Thresholds....Pages 271-275
GIS Analysis of Debris Volume Mobilized by Heavy Rainstorm in North-Eastern Sicily....Pages 277-281
Space-Time Hazard Assessment of Rainfall-Induced Shallow Landslides....Pages 283-293
Tertiary Creep Reproduction by Back-Pressure-Controlled Test in DPRI-7....Pages 295-301
Front Matter....Pages 303-305
Landslide-Related Sediment Yield Rate in a Large Apenninic Catchment....Pages 307-313
Landslide Mobility and Landslide Sediment Transfer in Val di Sole, Eastern Central Alps....Pages 315-320
Front Matter....Pages 303-305
A Quantitative Assessment of the Sedimentology and Geomorphology of Rock Avalanche Deposits....Pages 321-326
Front Matter....Pages 327-328
Landsides in Cold Regions: Making a Science that can be put into Practice....Pages 329-333
Large, Topography-Constrained Rockslide Complexes in the Karakoram Himalaya, Northern Pakistan....Pages 335-346
Did Radiative Cooling Trigger New Zealand’s 2007 Young River Landslide?....Pages 347-353
Soil Sliding in Continuous Permafrost Terrain of Siberia: The Case Study of Soil Respiration and Soil Microbial Activity Dynamics During Ecosystem Re-establishment....Pages 355-360
Detecting Potential Climate Signals in Large Slope Failures in Cold Mountain Regions....Pages 361-367
Landslides Characteristic of Northwest Lesser Khingan Range China....Pages 369-375
Landslides and Moisture-Temperature for Cutting Slope Soil in Freeze-Thaw Cycles....Pages 377-382
Temporal Characteristics of Different Cryosphere-Related Slope Movements in High Mountains....Pages 383-390
Test of a Procedure to Assess the Stability of Permafrost Rock Walls: The Case of the Pellaud Basin, Rhêmes Valley (Aosta Valley, Italy)....Pages 391-396
Permafrost Degradation and Destabilization of Alpine Rockwalls: A Very Close Link in the Mont Blanc Massif....Pages 397-402
The December 2008 Crammont Rock Avalanche, Mont Blanc Massif Area, Italy....Pages 403-408
GALLIUS: GeomorphohydrologicAl Model for LandsLide Initiation Under Snowmelting....Pages 409-415
DSGSDs Induced by Post-Glacial Decompression in Central Apennine (Italy)....Pages 417-423
Climatic and Structural Controls to Slope Instabilities in Val Veny (Italy)....Pages 425-431