Mountain hazards such as landslides, floods and avalanches pose a serious threat to human lives and development and can cause considerable damage to lifelines, critical …
This paper presents recommended methodologies for the quantitative analysis of landslide hazard, vulnerability and risk at different spatial scales (site-specific, local, regional and …
R Fell, J Corominas, C Bonnard, L Cascini, E Leroi… - Engineering …, 2008 - Elsevier
Landslide susceptibility and hazard zoning, and to a lesser extent, landslide risk zoning, have experienced extensive development during the last few decades. Most of these zoning …
YY Haimes - Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The premise of this article is that risk to a system, as well as its vulnerability and resilience, can be understood, defined, and quantified most effectively through a systems‐based …
Z Guo, L Chen, K Yin, DP Shrestha, L Zhang - Engineering Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
A large number of landslides in the Three Gorges Reservoir area in China have been reactivated by reservoir impoundment since 2003. Many of them were activated as slow …
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Abstract IAEG Commission No. 1—Engineering Geological Maps—is developing a guide to hazard maps. Scientists from 17 countries have participated. This paper is one of a series …
R Mani Murali, M Ankita, S Amrita… - Natural Hazards and …, 2013 - nhess.copernicus.org
As a consequence of change in global climate, an increased frequency of natural hazards such as storm surges, tsunamis and cyclones, is predicted to have dramatic affects on the …
S Fuchs, K Heiss, J Hübl - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2007 - nhess.copernicus.org
In quantitative risk assessment, risk is expressed as a function of the hazard, the elements at risk and the vulnerability. From a natural sciences perspective, vulnerability is defined as the …