Landslide risk assessment / E. Mark Lee (Ebor Geoscience Limited, UK), David K.C. Jones (London School of Economics, UK).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Mark E., author.

Jones, David K. C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landslide hazard analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages)

Edition:

3rd Edition.

Place of Publication:

London : ICE Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

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 key challenges that practitioners will need to overcome when estimating the probability and consequences of landsliding. The use of risk criteria is described, marking the important transition between risk assessment and risk management. Now updated with the latest ISO and Society for Risk Analysis guidance, and with a focus on the impact of uncertainty and strength of knowledge on assessing risk plus much more, this book is the authoritative, must-have purchase for any practitioner operating in this area. With international case studies and examples to allow you to put theory into practice, this book covers * risk concepts and models * basic elements of landslide risk assessment * landslide hazard * qualitative and quantitative risk assessments * exposure and vulnerability * consequences * quantifying risk * assessing uncertainty and strength of knowledge This title will appeal to any geotechnical or civil engineer involved in slope engineering and landslide risk. It will have additional appeal to risk analysts, geomorphologists, hydrologists, foresters, environmental consultants, students, academics and researchers.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781523158003

152315800X

9780727766243

0727766244

OCLC:

1380465321