NH039
The Landslide Life Cycle: From Process Understanding to Hazard and Risk Assessment
The Landslide Life Cycle: From Process Understanding to Hazard and Risk Assessment
Session ID#: 81674
Session Description:
Landslides are widespread agents of geomorphic change that pose an ongoing threat to human life and infrastructure. Therefore, linking insights from process-based studies of slope failure to operational tools for identifying hazard, vulnerability, and risk is paramount for landslide science. There is a growing awareness that is a critical objective, not only for cases of weather-induced landsliding, but also multi-process cascading hazards, including earthquake-induced landsliding. This session will highlight contributions from all aspects of the landslide life cycle. We seek to bring together advances in field observation, laboratory procedures, remote sensing technologies, and computational methods that have aided in the development of new conceptual models and quantitative criteria relevant to landslide susceptibility and warning for a broad spectrum of slope failure initiation mechanisms and mobility characteristics.
Index Terms:
1810 Debris flow and landslides [HYDROLOGY]
1826 Geomorphology: hillslope [HYDROLOGY]
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7212 Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
Primary Convener: Matthew A. Thomas, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States
Conveners: Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jason W Kean, USGS, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States and Marin Kristen Clark, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison: Matthew A. Thomas, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States
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