Landslides - Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management

Landslides: Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management
386 pages | Sep 22 2006 |ISBN: 3540286640 | PDF

Based on contributions to the first General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides, this reference and status report emphasizes the mechanisms of different types of landslides, landslide risk analysis, and sustainable disaster management. It comprises the achievements of the ICL over the past three years, since the Kyoto assembly. It consists of three parts: research results of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL); contributions on landslide risk analysis; and articles on sustainable disaster management. In addition, the history of the ICL activities