Landslide hazard evaluation: a review of current techniques and their application in a multi-scale study, Central Italy

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Landslide hazard evaluation: a review of current techniques and their application in a multi-scale study, Central Italy

Fausto Guzzetti, Alberto Carrara, Mauro Cardinali, Paola Reichenbach

01 Dec 1999-Geomorphology (Elsevier)-Vol. 31, Iss: 1, pp 181-216

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used geomorphological information to assess areas at high landslide hazard, and help mitigate the associated risk, and found that despite the operational and conceptual limitations, landslide hazard assessment may indeed constitute a suitable, cost-effective aid to land-use planning.

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About: This article is published in Geomorphology.The article was published on 1999-12-01. It has received 2146 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hazard & Natural hazard.

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The application of GIS-based logistic regression for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Kakuda-Yahiko Mountains, Central Japan

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Lulseged Ayalew¹, Hiromitsu Yamagishi¹•Institutions (1)

Niigata University¹

01 Feb 2005-Geomorphology

TL;DR: In this paper, a landslide susceptibility map in the Kakuda-Yahiko Mountains of Central Japan is presented, where the authors use logistic regression to find the best fitting function to describe the relationship between the presence or absence of landslides (dependent variable) and a set of independent parameters such as slope angle and lithology.

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Cites methods from "Landslide hazard evaluation: a revi..."

...Landslide susceptibility mapping using either multivariate or bivariate statistical approaches analyzes the historical link between landslide-controlling factors and the distribution of landslides (Guzzetti et al., 1999)....
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...Hence, qualitative or semiquantitative methods are often useful for regional studies (Soeters and van Westen, 1996; Guzzetti et al., 1999)....
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...In the application for landslide susceptibility mapping, the common solution is to create layers of binary values (dummy variables) for each class of an independent parameter (Guzzetti et al., 1999; Lee and Min, 2001; Dai et al., 2001; Dai and Lee, 2002; Ohlmacher and Davis, 2003)....
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...In seeking a susceptibility map, the method adopted in literature is to divide the histogram of the probability map into different categories based on expert opinions (Guzzetti et al., 1999; Lee and Min, 2001; Dai and Lee, 2002; Ohlmacher and Davis, 2003)....
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...The process of creating these maps involves several qualitative or quantitative approaches (Soeters and van Westen, 1996, Aleotti and Chowdhury, 1999; Guzzetti et al., 1999)....
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Landslide inventory maps: New tools for an old problem

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Fausto Guzzetti, Alessandro Cesare Mondini¹, Mauro Cardinali, Federica Fiorucci¹, Michele Santangelo¹, Kang-Tsung Chang² - Show less +2 more•Institutions (2)

University of Perugia¹, Kainan University²

01 Apr 2012-Earth-Science Reviews

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the principles for landslide mapping, and review the conventional methods for the preparation of landslide maps, including geomorphological, event, seasonal, and multi-temporal inventories.

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1,290 citations

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...Knowledge on landslides can be generalized (Aleotti and Chowdhury, 1999; Guzzetti et al., 1999), and information on failures gained in an area can be used to detect andmap landslides in other areas....
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...…adopt the principle that “the past and present are keys to the future” (Varnes, D.J. and the IAEG Commission on Landslides and other Mass-Movements, 1984; Carrara et al., 1991; Hutchinson, 1995; Aleotti and Chowdhury, 1999; Guzzetti et al., 1999, 2000), a consequence of uniformitarianism....
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Guidelines for landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk zoning for land-use planning

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Robin Fell¹, Jordi Corominas², Christophe Bonnard, Leonardo Cascini³, Eric Leroi, William Z. Savage⁴ - Show less +2 more•Institutions (4)

University of New South Wales¹, Polytechnic University of Catalonia², University of Salerno³, United States Geological Survey⁴

01 Dec 2008-Engineering Geology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a study of the relationship between geotechnical engineering and geosciences and geophysics at the University of New South Wales and U.S. Geological Survey.

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1,186 citations

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...Some general references on mapping procedures include Van Westen (1994, 2004), and Guzzetti et al. (1999)....
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...…the proportion of land surfacewhich contains a set of ground conditions that differ from the adjacent units across definable boundaries (Hansen, 1984), Several mapping units may be defined (Guzzetti et al., 1999): grid cells, terrain units, unique-condition units, slope units and topographic units....
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...This unit is defined as the proportion of land surfacewhich contains a set of ground conditions that differ from the adjacent units across definable boundaries (Hansen, 1984), Several mapping units may be defined (Guzzetti et al., 1999): grid cells, terrain units, unique-condition units, slope units and topographic units....
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Landslide hazard and risk zonation—why is it still so difficult?

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C.J. van Westen¹, T. W. J. van Asch², R. Soeters¹•Institutions (2)

International Institute of Minnesota¹, Utrecht University²

01 May 2006-Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

TL;DR: 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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Abstract: 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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1,034 citations

Cites methods from "Landslide hazard evaluation: a revi..."

...Landslide risk approaches used Overviews and classification of GIS-based landslide hazard assessment methods can be found in Soeters and Van Westen (1996), Carrara et al. (1995, 1999), Guzzetti et al. (1999) Aleotti and Chowdury (1999) and Van Westen (2000)....
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A review of statistically-based landslide susceptibility models

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Paola Reichenbach, Mauro Rossi, Bruce D. Malamud¹, Monika Mihir², Monika Mihir¹, Fausto Guzzetti - Show less +2 more•Institutions (2)

King's College London¹, CACI²

01 May 2018-Earth-Science Reviews

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of statistical methods for landslide susceptibility modelling and associated terrain zonations is presented, revealing a significant heterogeneity of thematic data types and scales, modelling approaches, and model evaluation criteria.

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...In the hope of producing more reliable predictions, it considers a landslide hazard assessment as a scientific theory, and makes all efforts Ž .to prove it faulty Popper, 1959 ....
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A physically based model for the topographic control on shallow landsliding

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David R. Montgomery, William E. Dietrich

01 Apr 1994-Water Resources Research

TL;DR: In this paper, a model for the topographic influence on shallow landslide initiation is developed by coupling digital terrain data with near-surface through flow and slope stability models, which predicts the degree of soil saturation in response to a steady state rainfall for topographic elements defined by the intersection of contours and flow tube boundaries.

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Abstract: A model for the topographic influence on shallow landslide initiation is developed by coupling digital terrain data with near-surface through flow and slope stability models. The hydrologic model TOPOG (O'Loughlin, 1986) predicts the degree of soil saturation in response to a steady state rainfall for topographic elements defined by the intersection of contours and flow tube boundaries. The slope stability component uses this relative soil saturation to analyze the stability of each topographic element for the case of cohesionless soils of spatially constant thickness and saturated conductivity. The steady state rainfall predicted to cause instability in each topographic element provides a measure of the relative potential for shallow landsliding. The spatial distribution of critical rainfall values is compared with landslide locations mapped from aerial photographs and in the field for three study basins where high-resolution digital elevation data are available: Tennessee Valley in Marin County, California; Mettman Ridge in the Oregon Coast Range; and Split Creek on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Model predictions in each of these areas are consistent with spatial patterns of observed landslide scars, although hydrologic complexities not accounted for in the model (e.g., spatial variability of soil properties and bedrock flow) control specific sites and timing of debris flow initiation within areas of similar topographic control.

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