EGS XXVI General Assembly, Nice, France, March 2001

NH3.02 Risk assessment and mapping: Landslide risk assessment and mapping

Event Information

Landslides cause deaths, missing people, injuries and homelessness every year. They affect settlements, roads and other infrastructures constituting a major problem in many developing and developed countries. Despite, in many countries little is known on the actual extent of landslide risk. Man and Nature combine in increasing landslide risk. Climate change has locally increased the intensity of rainfall, raising the frequency of fast moving, shallow landslides. The population growth and the expansion of settlements and life-lines over potentially hazardous areas are increasing the impact of landslides. The new issue seems to be the development and utilisation of monitoring and warning systems combined with regulations aimed at minimising the loss of lives and property damage without investing in long-term, costly projects of ground stabilisation. The symposium is a good opportunity to discuss techniques, tools and methods for evaluating, avoiding or mitigating landslide risk, and to compare qualitative or quantitative risk estimates in different areas. It is also an opportunity to discuss the same concept of risk applied to mass movements. Since mandatory to the evaluation of landslide risk is the assessment of landslide hazard, contributions dealing with landslide mapping and landslide hazard assessment are welcomed. Papers dealing with risk and hazard assessment at local and regional scale and in different physiographic, climatic and geological settings are solicited, together with contributions dealing with heuristic, statistical or deterministic methods and models to evaluate and compare landslide hazard and risk.

Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers

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