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Title Landslide hazards, risks, and disasters / volume editor, Tim Davies.

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Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Mass movement classification; Mass movement in soils; Soil creep and valley bulging; Mass movement in bedrock masses; Slope stability analysis; Slope monitoring; Landslide hazard, investigation, and mapping; Cost-effective slope stabilization; Quicksands; Expansive clays; Dispersive soils; Collapsible soils; Quick clays; Problem-soils as most expensive geohazard in world; Role of water in mass movement and problem soils; Undersea landslides; Subsidence; Snow avalanches; Arid soil hazards; Peat and coalbed hazards; Climate change and increased mass movement in collapse of permafrost regions; Paleoslope failures; Dating mass movements and ground collapses; Field, aerial photograph, and remote sensing assessments; Quantitative analysis; Living near steep slopes & valley margins; Community preparedness, response & recovery; Implications of climate change.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 10, 2014).
Subject Landslides -- Risk assessment.
Landslides -- Prevention.
Landslide hazard analysis.
Added Author Davies, Timothy R. H., editor of compilation.
Ebooks Corporation
Related To Original 9780123964526 0123964520 (DLC) 2014035690
ISBN 9780123964755 (electronic bk.)
012396475X (electronic bk.)
9780123964526 (hardback)
0123964520 (hardback)
OCLC # EBC1823232
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