Appraise the structural mitigation of landslide risk via numerical modelling: A case study from the northern Apennines (Italy)

Georisk

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 141-160

  Borgatti, Lisa ^a,b   Corsini, Alessandro ^b   Marcato, Gianluca ^c   Ronchetti, Francesco ^b   Zabuski, Leslaw ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDRO ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

Investigation; Landslide risk; Mitigation; Monitoring; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MITIGATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

APENNINES; BOLOGNA [EMILIA-ROMAGNA]; EMILIA-ROMAGNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 51749093992     PISSN: 17499518     EISSN: 17499526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17499510802200261     Document Type: Article

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