List of Contributors.
Preface.
1. Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues, Concepts, and Approach(M. J.
Crozier and T. Glade).
Part I: Conceptual Models in Approaching LandslideRisk.
2. The nature of landslide hazard impact (T. Glade &
M.Crozier).
3. A review of scale dependency in landslide hazard and risk(T.
Glade & M. Crozier).
4. Systematic procedures of landslide-hazard mapping for
riskassessment using spatial prediction models (Chang-Jo F. Chung&
Andrea G. Fabbri).
5.Vulnerability to landslides (David Alexander).
Part II: Evaluation of Risk.
6. Landslide risk perception, knowledge, and associated
riskmanagement: Case studies and general lessons from Glacier
NationalPark, Montana, USA (David R. Butler & Lisa M.DeChano).
7. Cultural consideration in landslide risk perception
(GarthHarmsworth & Bill Raynor).
8 Reply of insurance industry to landslide risk (Hans-LeoPaus).
9. The role of administrative bodies in landslide riskassessment
(Kurt Hollenstein).
10. Addressing landslide hazards: Towards a knowledge
managementperspective (S. Michaels).
Part III: Management of Landslide Risk.
11. Management frameworks for landslide hazard and risk: issuesand
options (M. J. Crozier).
12. Reducing landslide hazards and risk in the United States:The
role of the U. S. Geological Survey (G. F. Wieczorek, P. L.Gori &
L. M. Highland).
13. Basic data and decision support for landslide management:
Aconceptual framework (Walter Pfluegner).
14. Instability management from policy to practice (R.McInnes).
15. Geomorphologic mapping to assess landslide risk:
concepts,methods and applications in the Umbria Region of central
Italy(Paola Reichenbach, Mirco Galli, Mauro Cardinali,
FaustoGuzzetti & Francesca Ardizzone).
16. Remote sensing of landslides (Vern Singhroy).
17. The rise and fall of a debris-flow warning system for theSan
Francisco Bay Region, California (Raymond C.Wilson).
18. Reforestation schemes to manage regional landslide risk(Chris
Phillips & Michael Marden).
19. Geotechnical structures for landslide risk reduction(Edward
Nicholas Bromhead).
Part IV: 'End-to-End Solutions' for LandslideRisk Assessment.
20. Towards the development of a landslide risk assessment forrural
roads in Nepal (D. Petley, G. J. Hearn & A.Hart).
21. Quantitative landslide risk assessment of Cairns,
Australia(Marion Michael-Leiba, Fred Baynes, Greg Scott &
KenGranger).
22. The story of quantified risk and its place in slope
safetypolicy in Hong Kong (A. W. Malone).
23. Rockfall risk management in high density urban areas.
TheAndorran experience (Ramon Copons, Joan Manuel Vilaplana,
JordiCorominas, Joan Altimir & Jordi Amigó).
24. Landslide risk assessment in Italy (MarinoSorriso-Valvo).
25. An initial approach to identifying slope stability controlsin
southern Java and to providing community-based landslide
warninginformation (D. Karnawati, I. Ibriam, M. G. Anderson, E.
A.Holcombe, G. T. Mummery, J-P. Renaud & Y. Wang).
Part V: Synopsis.
26. Landslide hazard and risk - concluding comment andperspectives
(T. Glade & M. Crozier).
Glossary.
Thematic Index.
Locations/regions.
Thomas Glade is the editor of Landslide Hazard and Risk, published by Wiley.
Malcolm G. Anderson is the editor of Landslide Hazard and Risk, published by Wiley.
Michael J. Crozier is the editor of Landslide Hazard and Risk, published by Wiley.
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