• Slope Safety Preparedness for Impact of Climate Change

Slope Safety Preparedness for Impact of Climate Change

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7.2.2.1 Case: the 1934 Tafjord disaster -- 7.2.3 Water-triggered landslides -- 7.2.3.1 Case 1: Kvam 2011/2013 -- 7.2.3.2 Case 2: Byneset 2012 -- 7.2.3.3 Case 3: Southeast Norway 2000 (Jaedicke et al., 2008b) -- 7.2.4 Landslides triggered by human activities -- 7.3 Climate and demographical changes in the coming years -- 7.3.1 General research on climate change in Norway -- 7.3.2 Changes in weather patterns in the context of slope stability -- 7.3.3 Changes in demography and infrastructure -- 7.4 Landslide risk assessment and management in a changing climate -- 7.4.1 State-of-the-art landslide risk assessment methodologies in use -- 7.4.2 Research -- 7.4.2.1 Climate and transport -- 7.4.2.2 GeoExtreme (Jaedicke et al., 2008a) -- 7.4.2.3 InfraRisk (NGI, 2013) -- 7.4.2.4 SafeLand (Nadim and Kalsnes, 2014) -- 7.4.2.5 MATRIX -- 7.4.2.6 NIFS -- 7.5 Regulation and policy issues -- 7.5.1 Institutional framework -- 7.5.2 Role of municipalities -- 7.5.3 Legal framework -- 7.5.4 Mapping of landslide hazards -- 7.5.5 Land use planning -- 7.5.6 Protection measures -- 7.6 Crisis preparedness -- 7.6.1 Emergency preparedness -- 7.6.2 Regional early warning service for landslides -- 7.6.3 Early warning service - large rockslides -- 7.6.4 Quick clay slides in a city -- 7.7 Final remarks -- References -- 8: Overview of landslides distribution in Russian Federation and variations of their activity due to climate change -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Regional factors influencing landslides distribution within the territory of Russian Federation -- 8.3 Slowly changing factors and their influence on the rapidly changing factors controlling landslide activity in Russia -- 8.4 Variation of landslides activity in different regions of Russian Federation due to climate change -- 8.4.1 Zone of the thawed and unfrozen soils -- 8.4.1.1 Southern region of the European part of Russia

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138032309
ISBN-10: 1138032301
Publisher: CRC Press/Balkema
Publication date: 2017
Edition description: 1
Pages: 571
Product dimensions: Height: 9.8 Inches, Length: 6.9 Inches, Weight: 2.61027318208 Pounds, Width: 1.4 Inches
Author: Ken Ho
Language: en
Binding: Hardcover

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