Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (eBook)

Tim Davies (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
492 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-12-396475-5 (ISBN)

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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. - Contains contributions from expert geologists, seismologists, geophysicists, and environmental scientists selected by a world-renowned editorial board - Presents the latest research on causality, economic impacts, fatality rates, and landslide and problem soil preparedness and mitigation - Numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, and video captures of hazardous processes - Discusses steps for prevention and treatment of problem soils, the most expensive geo-hazard in the world

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Contributors 10
Editorial Foreword 12
Preface 16
Chapter 1 - Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: Introduction 20
1.1 INTRODUCTION 20
1.2 UNDERSTANDING LANDSLIDE HAZARDS 21
1.3 UNDERSTANDING LANDSLIDE RISKS 25
1.4 UNDERSTANDING FUTURE LANDSLIDE DISASTERS 28
1.5 CONCLUSION 32
REFERENCES 33
Chapter 2 - Landslide Causes and Triggers 36
2.1 INTRODUCTION 36
2.2 CONCEPT OF INSTABILITY 38
2.3 STABILITY FACTORS 45
2.4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 57
REFERENCES 57
Chapter 3 - Mass Movement in Bedrock 62
3.1 INTRODUCTION 62
3.2 ROCK MATERIALS 63
3.3 MASS MOVEMENT CHARACTERISTICS 69
3.4 MASS MOVEMENT TYPES 72
3.5 CASE STUDIES 79
3.6 RECOGNITION AND RESPONSE 86
3.7 RISK MANAGEMENT IN ROCK SLOPES 90
REFERENCES 92
Chapter 4 - Coseismic Landslides 110
4.1 SEISMICALLY TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES 110
4.2 MECHANICS OF EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED LANDSLIDES 120
4.3 STABILITY ANALYSIS AND HAZARD ASSESSMENT 132
4.4 LIMITATIONS OF CURRENT UNDERSTANDING 140
REFERENCES 144
Chapter 5 - Volcanic Debris Avalanches 150
5.1 INTRODUCTION 150
5.2 VOLCANIC DEBRIS AVALANCHES 153
5.3 TYPES OF VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES 153
5.4 DEEP-SEATED VOLCANIC LANDSLIDE DEFORMATION: PRIMING AND TRIGGERS 156
5.5 DEEP-SEATED VOLCANO GRAVITATIONAL DEFORMATION 157
5.6 REGIONAL TECTONIC INFLUENCES 159
5.7 PRIMING OF VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES 159
5.8 TRIGGERING VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES 160
5.9 THE STRUCTURE OF VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES 161
5.10 VOLCANIC LANDSLIDE DEPOSITS 162
5.11 DEBRIS AVALANCHE TEXTURES AND STRUCTURES 167
5.12 SECONDARY HAZARDS OF VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES 169
5.13 VOLCANIC LANDSLIDE TRANSPORT MECHANISMS 169
5.14 HAZARDS FROM VOLCANIC LANDSLIDES 170
5.15 SUMMARY 171
REFERENCES 172
Chapter 6 - Peat Landslides 178
6.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 178
6.2 THE NATURE OF PEAT, ITS STRUCTURE, AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES 181
6.3 MORPHOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION OF PEAT LANDSLIDES 183
6.4 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANDSLIDE TYPE AND PEAT STRATIGRAPHY 186
6.5 IMPACTS OF PEAT LANDSLIDES 189
6.6 THE RUNOUT OF PEAT LANDSLIDES 197
6.7 SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS OF PEAT LANDSLIDES AND GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES 199
6.8 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FREQUENCY OF PEAT LANDSLIDES 202
6.9 THE FUTURE INCIDENCE OF PEAT LANDSLIDES 203
6.10 CONCLUSION 205
REFERENCES 206
Chapter 7 - Rock–Snow–Ice Avalanches 210
7.1 INTRODUCTION 210
7.2 RAPID MASS MOVEMENTS ON GLACIERS 219
7.3 RSI AVALANCHE PROPAGATION 235
7.4 IMPLICATIONS FOR HAZARD ASSESSMENT 242
7.5 CONCLUSIONS 247
REFERENCES 249
Chapter 8 - Multiple Landslide-Damming Episodes 260
8.1 INTRODUCTION 260
8.2 PREVIOUS WORK ON LANDSLIDE DAMS 263
8.3 LANDSLIDE-DAM EPISODES: LESSONS FROM CASE STUDIES 264
8.4 DISCUSSION 275
8.5 CONCLUSIONS 277
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 278
REFERENCES 278
Chapter 9 - Rock Avalanches onto Glaciers 282
9.1 INTRODUCTION 282
9.2 PROCESSES 290
9.3 CONSEQUENCES 310
9.4 CASE STUDIES 320
9.5 CONCLUSIONS 329
REFERENCES 329
Chapter 10 - Paleolandslides 340
10.1 INTRODUCTION 340
10.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF PALEOLANDSLIDES 342
10.3 RECOGNITION AND MAPPING 343
10.4 DATING PALEOLANDSLIDES 350
10.5 TEMPORAL BIAS 354
10.6 ROLE IN LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION 357
10.7 RISK ASSESSMENT 357
10.8 CONCLUSION 360
REFERENCES 360
Chapter 11 - Remote Sensing of Landslide Motion with Emphasis on Satellite Multitemporal Interferometry Applications: An Ov ... 364
11.1 INTRODUCTION 365
11.2 BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY AND MULTITEMPORAL INTERFEROMETRY 368
11.3 EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT SCALE MTI APPLICATIONS TO LANDSLIDE MOTION DETECTION AND MONITORING 378
11.4 SUMMARY DISCUSSION 402
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 414
REFERENCES 414
Chapter 12 - Small Landslides—Frequent, Costly, and Manageable 424
12.1 INTRODUCTION 424
12.2 COSTS OF SMALL-MEDIUM LANDSLIDES 425
12.3 FREQUENCY OF LANDSLIDES 428
12.4 MANAGEMENT OF LANDSLIDES 428
12.5 SIZE OF MANAGEABLE LANDSLIDES 434
12.6 CONCLUSIONS 453
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 454
REFERENCES 454
Chapter 13 - Analysis Tools for Mass Movement Assessment 460
13.1 INTRODUCTION 460
13.2 THE COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS AVAILABLE 461
13.3 LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM METHODS 466
13.4 LIMIT ANALYSIS 476
13.5 CONTINUUM NUMERICAL METHODS 478
13.6 DISTINCT ELEMENT METHOD 479
13.7 CONCLUSIONS 481
REFERENCES 481
Index 486

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.10.2014
• Mitarbeit: Chef-Herausgeber: John F. Shroder
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 0-12-396475-X / 012396475X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-12-396475-5 / 9780123964755