Contributors ............................................... vii
Preface ..................................................... xi
JOHN J. CLAGUE AND DOUGLAS STEAD
1 Landslide hazard and risk .................................... 1
JOHN J. CLAGUE AND NICHOLAS J. ROBERTS
2 Landslides in the Earth system .............................. 10
OLIVER KORUP
3 Earthquake ground motion and patterns of seismically
induced landsliding ......................................... 24
NIELS HOVIUS AND PATRICK MEUNIER
4 Landslides at stratovolcanoes initiated by volcanic unrest .. 37
CHRISTOPHER F. WAYTHOMAS
5 Mobility of long-runout rock avalanches ..................... 50
TIM DAVIES AND MAURI MCSAVENEY
6 Rapid rock-slope failures ................................... 59
REGINALD L. HERMANNS AND ODDVAR LONGVA
7 Risk assessments for debris flows ........................... 71
MATTHIAS JAKOB AND KRIS HOLM
8 Landslides in quick clay .................................... 83
J. KENNETH TORRANCE
9 Controls on the distribution of major types of submarine
landslides .................................................. 95
DAVID J.W. PIPER, DAVID C. MOSHER, AND D. CALVIN CAMPBELL
10 Tsunami hazard assessment related to slope failures in
coastal waters ............................................. 108
BRIAN D. BORNHOLD AND RICHARD E. THOMSON
11 Physical impacts of climate change on landslide
occurrence and related adaptation .......................... 121
CHRISTIAN HUGGEL, NIKOLAY KHABAROV, OLIVER KORUP, AND
MICHAEL OBERSTEINER
12 Landslides and geologic environments ....................... 134
ROBIN FELL, DAVID STAPLEDON, AND PATRICK MACGREGOR
13 Numerical modeling of rock-slope instability ............... 144
DOUGLAS STEAD AND JOHN COGGAN
14 Remote sensing techniques and landslides ................... 159
DAVID PETLEY
15 Engineering geomorphology of landslides .................... 172
JAMES S. GRIFFITHS AND MALCOLM WHITWORTH
16 Developments in landslide runout prediction ................ 187
SCOTT MCDOUGALL, MIKA MCKINNON, AND OLDRICH HUNGR
17 Models of the triggering of landslides during
earthquakes ................................................ 196
RANDALL W. JIBSON
18 Slow rock-slope deformation ................................ 207
FEDERICO AGLIARDI, GIOVANNI B. CROSTA, AND PAOLO FRATTINI
19 Landslide monitoring: The role of investigative
monitoring to improve understanding and early warning of
failure .................................................... 222
ERIK EBERHARDT
20 Groundwater in slopes ...................................... 235
LUCIANO PICARELLI, SERGE LEROUEIL, LUCIO OLIVARES, LUCA
PAGANO, PAOLO TOMMASI, AND GIANFRANCO URCIUOLI
21 Soil slope stabilization ................................... 252
EDWARD N. BROMHEAD, SEYYEDMAHDI HOSSEYNI, AND NOBUYUKI
TORII
22 Rockfall characterization and modeling ..................... 267
PAOLO FRATTINI, GIOVANNI B. CROSTA, AND FEDERICO AGLIARDI
23 The 2006 Eiger rockslide, European Alps .................... 282
MICHEL JABOYEDOFF, MARC-HENRI DERRON, JULIEN JAKUBOWSKI,
THIERRY OPPIKOFER, AND ANDREA PEDRAZZINI
24 Randa: Kinematics and driving mechanisms of a large
complex rockslide .......................................... 297
SIMON LOEW, VALENTIN GISCHIG, HEIKE WILLENBERG, ANDREA
ALPIGER, AND JEFFREY R. MOORE
25 Characterization and management of rockslide hazard at
Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada ........................... 310
COREY R. FROESE, MARIE CHARRIÈRE, FLORIAN HUMAIR, MICHEL
JABOYEDOFF, AND ANDREA PEDRAZZINI
26 The Åknes rockslide, Norway ................................ 323
LARS HARALD BLIKRA
27 A seismometric approach for back-analyzing an unusual
rockfall in the Apennines of Italy ......................... 336
GIANLUCA BIANCHI FASANI, CARLO ESPOSITO, LUCA LENTI,
SALVATORE MARTINO, MASSIMO PECCI, AND GABRIELE SCARASCIA
MUGNOZZA
28 Downie Slide, British Columbia, Canada ..................... 345
KATHERINE S. KALENCHUK, D. JEAN HUTCHINSON, MARK
DIEDERICHS, AND DENNIS MOORE
29 The 1963 Vaiont landslide, Italy ........................... 359
MONICA GHIROTTI
30 Hong Kong landslides ....................................... 373
STEPHEN R. HENCHER AND ANDREW W. MALONE
31 Landslides induced by the Wenchuan earthquake .............. 383
MASAHIRO CHIGIRA, GONGHUI WANG, AND XIYONG WU
32 Landslides on other planets ................................ 393
MARKO H.К. BULMER
Index ...................................................... 409
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