Landslide Risk: Assessment, Management and Reduction - Hardcover

Svalova, Valentina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1536122947 ISBN 13: 9781536122947

Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc, 2017

Synopsis

A landslide is a major geological hazard, which poses a serious threat to the global human population and various infrastructures like highways, rail routes and civil structures like dams, buildings and others. Landslides occur very often during other major natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and volcanoes. The word “landslide” represents only a type of movement that is a slide. However, it is generally used as a term to cover all the types of land movements including falls, creeps, spreads, flows and other complex movements. Geological risk is a relatively new and not fully explored concept. There are many definitions of geological risk. Often, a scientific study or a scientific approach to the problem begins with a presentation of the author's position and the choice of the definition of geological risk for this problem. One of the most common approaches defines risk as the expectation of the damage, or the product of the probability of possible hazardous events on the

Edition details

• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1536122947
• ISBN 13: 9781536122947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243