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Landslide hazard and risk zonation—why is it still so difficult?

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In this paper, the authors review the problem of attempting to quantify landslide risk over larger areas, discussing a number of difficulties related to the generation of landslide inventory maps including information on date, type and volume of the landslide, the determination of its spatial and temporal probability, the modelling of runout and the assessment of landslide vulnerability.
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The quantification of risk has gained importance in many disciplines, including landslide studies. The literature on landslide risk assessment illustrates the developments which have taken place in the last decade and that quantitative risk assessment is feasible for geotechnical engineering on a site investigation scale and the evaluation of linear features (e.g., pipelines, roads). However, the generation of quantitative risk zonation maps for regulatory and development planning by local authorities still seems a step too far, especially at medium scales (1:10,000–1:50,000). This paper reviews the problem of attempting to quantify landslide risk over larger areas, discussing a number of difficulties related to the generation of landslide inventory maps including information on date, type and volume of the landslide, the determination of its spatial and temporal probability, the modelling of runout and the assessment of landslide vulnerability. An overview of recent developments in the different approaches to landslide hazard and risk zonation at medium scales is given. The paper concludes with a number of new advances and challenges for the future, such as the use of very detailed topographic data, the generation of event-based landslide inventory maps, the use of these maps in spatial-temporal probabilistic modelling and the use of land use and climatic change scenarios in deterministic modelling.

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Mapping of hazard from rainfall-triggered landslides in developing countries: Examples from Honduras and Micronesia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the minimum requirements for constructing a physically based landslide-hazard map from a landslide-triggering storm, using the simple methods discussed, are: (1) an accurate mapped landslide inventory, (2) a slope map derived from a digital elevation model (DEM) or topographic map, and (3) material strength properties of the slopes involved.
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Parameterizing a physically based shallow landslide model in a data poor region

TL;DR: In this article, a physically based, dynamic and distributed hydrological model (STARWARS) coupled with a probabilistic slope stability model (PROBSTAB) was applied to evaluate the influence of vegetation on shallow slope failures.
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Landslide Susceptibility Evaluation Using Hybrid Integration of Evidential Belief Function and Machine Learning Techniques

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TL;DR: In this article, a Random SubSpace-based classification and regression tree (RSCART) was introduced for landslide susceptibility modeling, and CART model and logistic regression (LR) model were used as benchmark models.
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Rainfall intensity–duration thresholds for the initiation of landslides in Zhejiang Province, China

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defined landslide-triggering rainfall intensity-duration thresholds for the entire Zhejiang region; and the 62 individual areas that comprise the region, based on 1569 shallow landslides which occurred from 1990 to 2013 and their corresponding detail rainfall records from 2457 rain gauges in the region.
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