Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment: Vol.1: The International Programme on Landslides (IPL)

Front Matter....Pages i-l
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
 Plenary: Progress of Living with Landslide Risk in Europe....Pages 3-20
 Plenary: Progress in Regional Landslide Hazard Assessment—Examples from the USA....Pages 21-36
 Plenary: Progress in Landslide Dynamics....Pages 37-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
 Introduction: International Programme on Landslides—IPL....Pages 71-74
 IPL Project 181: Study of Slow Moving Landslide Umka Near Belgrade, Serbia....Pages 75-80
 Efforts in Landslide Risk Reduction in Asia....Pages 81-87
 Study of Landslides in Flysch Deposits of North Istria, Croatia: Landslide Data Collection and Recent Landslide Occurrences....Pages 89-94
 “Report a Landslide” A Website to Engage the Public in Identifying Geologic Hazards....Pages 95-100
 Discrete Boundary Shear Strength of a Landslide at High Rainfall Precipitation Zone in Sri Lanka....Pages 101-106
 Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) Database Project....Pages 107-111
 Towards Landslide Instrumentation and Monitoring in Teziutlán, Puebla, Mexico....Pages 113-116
 Synoptic Pan-European Landslide Susceptibility Assessment: The ELSUS 1000 v1 Map....Pages 117-122
 Landslide Risk in South-East Nigeria: Important Facilities Under Serious Threat....Pages 123-128
 Assessing Landslide Frequency for Landform Hazard Zoning Purposes....Pages 129-134
 Comparison of Soil Modulus E 50 of Residual Soil Slope Failures in Two Different Rainfall Zones....Pages 135-141
 WCoE: Mechanisms of Landslides in Over-Consolidated Clays and Flysch and IPL-151 Project: Soil Matrix Suction in Active Landslides in Flysch—The Slano Blato Landslide Case....Pages 143-148
 Slope Data Acquisition Along Highways in Sabah State for Hazard Assessment and Mapping....Pages 149-154
 Climate-Change Impacts on Embankments and Slope Stability in Permafrost Regions of Bei’an-Heihe Highway....Pages 155-160
 International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan: IPL-106-2 Project and WCoE....Pages 161-166
 Rainfall Intensity and Duration for Debris Flow Triggering in Peninsular Malaysia....Pages 167-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
 Introduction: Thematic and Regional Networks on Landslides....Pages 175-180
 The ICL Latin American Network: Past Activities and Challenges Ahead....Pages 181-185
 A South-East Asian Network for Landslide Risk Management for Regional Collaboration....Pages 187-191
 Landslide Monitoring Techniques Database....Pages 193-197
 Landslide Knowledge Exchange Through the Regional Cooperation in the Adriatic-Balkan Region....Pages 199-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
 Introduction: Policy, Legislation and Guidelines on Landslides....Pages 209-210
 Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development....Pages 211-216
 Economic Impact Assessment of Landslide Events....Pages 217-222
 A Safety Guideline for Hill-Site Development of Penang, Malaysia: Challenges and a Way Forward....Pages 223-227
 Guidelines and Initiatives in the Aftermath of Highland Towers Landmark Landslide....Pages 229-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
 Introduction: Climate and Land-Use Change Impacts on Landslides....Pages 239-240
 Modelling the Influence of Tree Removal on Embankment Slope Hydrology....Pages 241-246
 Age and Reactivations of Catastrophic Complex Flow-Like Landslides in the Flysch Carpathians (Czech Republic/Slovakia)....Pages 247-252
 Antecedent Precipitation as a Potential Proxy for Landslide Incidence in South West United Kingdom....Pages 253-259
 Natural Hazards in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru During the Time of Global Climate Change....Pages 261-266
 Land-Use Change and Shallow Landsliding: A Case History from the Apennine Mountains, Italy....Pages 267-272
 Applicability of Relative Weights Derived for Nuwara Eliya and Badulla Regions to the Areas with Different Terrain and Climatological Characteristics....Pages 273-280
 Landslide Hazard and Risk in a Changing Climate....Pages 281-286
 Validation of a Simulation Chain to Assess Climate Change Impact on Precipitation Induced Landslides....Pages 287-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
 Introduction: Recognition and Mechanics of Landslides....Pages 295-296
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
 Mechanism and Dynamics of Umka Landslide, Belgrade, Serbia....Pages 297-302
 Shear Strength Recovery of Clayey Soils Following Discontinuation of Shear at a Residual State....Pages 303-308
 Landslides on a Cretaceous Fluvial Sediment....Pages 309-314
 Prediction Method of the Onset of Landslides Based on the Stress-Dilatancy Relation Against Shallow Landslides....Pages 315-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
 Introduction: General Landslide Studies....Pages 323-324
 Early Warning Systems and Time Series Modelling: A New Challenge for Landslide Risk Prevention....Pages 325-331
 Slope Stability Analysis at Bloemendhal Open Dump Site in Sri Lanka....Pages 333-338
 Slope Dynamic Geomorphology of the Mailuu-Suu Area, Aspects of Long-Term Prediction....Pages 339-343
 An Overview of Rock Avalanche-Substrate Interactions....Pages 345-349
 Landslide Susceptibility of Kavaja, Albania....Pages 351-356
 Recent Extreme Rainfall-Induced Landslides and Government Countermeasures in Korea....Pages 357-361
 How the Stabilizing Effect of Vegetation on a Slope Changes Over Time: A Review....Pages 363-372
 Analysis of a Deep-Seated Landslide in the Phan Me Coal Mining Dump Site, Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam....Pages 373-377
 Geological Complexities of Rawana Landslide, Sirmaur District, Himachal....Pages 379-387
 Highways Vs. Landslides and Their Consequences in Himalaya....Pages 389-395
 Characteristics of Landslides from Sigou Gorge to Lagan Gorge in the Upper Reaches of Yellow River....Pages 397-406
 Evaluation on Effect for the Prevention and Control Against the Landslide Disasters in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area....Pages 407-414
 Fiber Optic Strain Monitoring and Evaluation of a Slow-Moving Landslide Near Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada....Pages 415-421
 Landslides Susceptibility of Chittagong City, Bangladesh and Development of Landslides Early Warning System....Pages 423-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
 Introduction: Session D1-D4—Side Events of World Landslide Forum....Pages 431-434
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
 Detection of Active Landslide Zone from Aerial Photograph Interpretation and Field Survey in Central Provinces of Vietnam....Pages 435-441
 Numerical Assessment of Shallow Landslide Using the Distributed Hydrological–Geotechnical Model in a Large Scale....Pages 443-450
 Stability Analysis of a High Slope Along a Loess Plateau Based on Field Investigation and Numerical Analysis....Pages 451-458
 The Simulation of a Deep Large-Scale Landslide Near Aratozawa Dam Using a 3.0 MPa Undrained Dynamic Loading Ring Shear Apparatus....Pages 459-465
 Study on Strength and Deformation Behavior of Loess Slope Supported by Micropiles....Pages 467-472
 The Influence of Countermeasure on Debris Flow Hazards with Numerical Simulation....Pages 473-478
 Simulation of a Rapid and Long-Travelling Landslide Using 2D-RAPID and LS-RAPID 3D Models....Pages 479-484
Back Matter....Pages 485-493