Landslide Risk Management PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANDSLIDE RISK MANAGEMENT, VANCOUVER, CANADA, 31 MAY-3 JUNE 2005

• Corporate Author: International Conference on Landslide Risk Management Vancover, Canada
• Other Authors: Hungr, Oldrich (Editor), Fell. Robin (Editor), Couture, Rejean (Editor), Eberhardt, Erik (Editor)
• Format: Conference Proceeding Book
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden A.A. BALKEMA PUBLISHERS 2005
• Subjects: Landslide hazard analaysis > Congresses; Landslides > Congresses
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• Item Description: Conference sponsored jointly by the Joint Technical Committee on Landslides and Engineered Slopes (JTC-1) and the Vancouver Geotechnical Society
• Physical Description: x, 764 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780415380430; 041538043X

Landslide Risk Management comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 31 to June 3, 2005. The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures, prepared by teams of authors selected for their experience in specific topics assigned to them by the JTC-1 Committee. The second part is a selection of papers submitted to the conference, most of which serve as case-history illustrations of projects on landslide risk management. This reference work presents the current status of landslide risk management as viewed by experts from around the world.