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Landslide susceptibility mapping using multi-criteria evaluation techniques in Chittagong Metropolitan Area, Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2015 Landslides are a common hazard in the highly urbanized hilly areas in Chittagong Metropolitan Area (CMA), Bangladesh. The main cause of the landslides is torrential rain in short period of time.
Ahmed, B
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Rock mass characterization coupled with seismic noise measurements to analyze the unstable cliff slope of the Selmun Promontory (Malta) [PDF]
, 2017 In the Mediterranean area, cliff slopes represent widespread high-risk landforms as they are highly frequented touristic places often interested by landslide processes.
D’Amico, Sebastiano +3 more
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article is an extended review of Jeffrey Ian Ross's student textbook, ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’. The review tackles critical issues emerging in convict criminology and the wider lived experience movement. The review engages with various approaches taken by Ross, in particular the book's focus on his own contributions to ...
Rod Earle
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Ecological IndicatorsLandslide susceptibility evaluation and determination of critical influencing factors is a prerequisite for preventing hazardous risks, especially in landslide-prone mountainous areas.
Lin Zhang +5 more
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 Hydrological monitoring of slope susceptible to shallow landslides allows for identifying the triggering conditions of shallow failures and implementing slope stability analysis at site-specific scale.
Bordoni M. +5 more
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Natural Hazard Overview: Landslides [PDF]
, 2018 The National Centre for Resilience supported the Met Office and their partner organisations in the production of a set of Natural Hazard Overviews. This factsheet is one of the set commissioned to meet a requirement for Scotland-specific information ...
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Towards the optimal Pixel size of dem for automatic mapping of landslide areas [PDF]
, 2017 Determining appropriate spatial resolution of digital elevation model (DEM) is a key step for effective landslide analysis based on remote sensing data. Several studies demonstrated that choosing the finest DEM resolution is not always the best solution.
Borkowski, A. +2 more
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The making of pure quartzose sand in continental interiors: Paraná River (Brazil and Argentina)
Sedimentology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As part of a comprehensive project on sedimentary processes in South America, this study focuses on sediment generation in the intracratonic Paraná Basin and monitors the evolution of sand composition along the Paraná River from central Brazil to the Río de la Plata estuary in Argentina.
Eduardo Garzanti +5 more
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Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2016 On 3 August 2014, an earthquake of Mw 6.5 happened in Ludian County, Yunnan Province, China. This earthquake triggered hundreds of landslides of various types, dominated by shallow slides, deep-seated slides, rock falls, debris flow and unstable slopes ...
Jia-Wen Zhou, Peng-Yuan Lu, Ming-Hui Hao
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Geoenvironmental Disasters, 2017 Background Three groups of factors related to topography, geology and hydrology have influence on the triggering of shallow landslides in soil material. In this paper a single representative factor (T-factor) for the topography is proposed, which can be ...
Bin Yu, Yunbo Zhu, Yang Liu
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