Semi-quantitative Approaches for Landslide Assessment and Prediction

This book includes the parameters responsible for landslide events in mountainous areas. It provides knowledge and understanding to the local people, planners and policy makers about the causes and consequences of landslides as well as provides a suitable method to mitigate the landslips. The book deals with the role of land, water and soil in landslide phenomena. These three attributes have been described in terms of critical rainfall, critical slope, critical height and changes and development of drainage network in landslides. Various scientific methods have been used to assess the landslides that will bring about tremendous help to researchers in the field. In particular, Researchers in Mountain Geomorphology and Geological and Geographical Society will get tremendous help from some topics such as 1-D slope stability model, SCS Curve Number Technique, Assessment of morphological parameters, application of RS & GIS, Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process. This book also helps to understand the geomorphic, hydrologic and geo-tectonic attributes and their role in slope instability that is required for quantitative assessment of drainage, land and soil in terms of slope instability. This book also reveals some techniques and models for initiating slope instability.