Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Volume 6 Specific Topics in Landslide Science and Applications (Hardback)

This book is a part of ICL new book series "ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction" founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the following parts: - Impact of Large Ground Deformations near Seismic Faults on Critically Important Civil Infrastructures- Recent Progress in the Landslide Initiating Science- Earth Observation and Machine Learning in Landslide Science- General Landslide StudiesProfessor Zeljko Arbanas is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor of Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia. He is the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides.Professor Peter Bobrowsky is the President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of GeologicalSurvey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.Professor Kazuo Konagai is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Principal Researcher at the ICL Headquarters. He serves as the Secretary-General of the Fifth World Landslide Forum.Professor Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President and the Secretary-General of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.Professor Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.

Author:

ŽEljko Arbanas, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kazuo Konagai, Kyoji Sassa, Kaoru Takara

Publisher:

Springer

Publication Date:

February 02, 2021

Number of pages:

434 pages

Language:

English

Binding:

Hardcover

ISBN-10:

3030607127

ISBN-13:

9783030607128