Landslide risk assessment

Landslide Risk Assessment, Third edition is the essential guide on establishing the likelihood and extent to which future slope failures could adversely impact society and affect urban areas. This book examines a variety of approaches to landslide risk assessment and management. It introduces the ke...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors Lee, Mark E. (Author), Jones, David K. C. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Edition3rd Edition.
Subjects
Landslide hazard analysis.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780727766243
DOI10.1680/lra.66236
Physical Description1 online resource (478 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents and Preliminary Pages
  • Risk
  • Risk concepts, definitions and processes
  • Landslides and landslide hazard
  • Landslide risk
  • Landslide risk concepts, components and analysis
  • Qualitative risk assessment
  • Estimating P(event): concepts, approaches and issues
  • Estimating P(event): Bayes' theorem, event trees and fault trees
  • Estimating P(event): statistical methods
  • Estimating P(event): normalisation of base-rate frequency
  • Estimating P(event): triggering events
  • Estimating P(event): judgement and the use of experts
  • Estimating P(event): reliability methods
  • Exposure: P(hit|event)
  • Vulnerability: P(damage|hit)
  • Estimating the consequences
  • Risk estimation: economic risk
  • Risk estimation: individual and societal risk
  • Landslide risk evaluation and management
  • Recognising and communicating uncertainty
  • Probability concepts
  • Glossary of terms
  • Index.

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