Unprecedented rates of landslide and surface erosion along a newly constructed road in Yunnan, China

Natural Hazards

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-326

  Sidle, Roy C ^a   Furuichi, Takahisa ^b   Kono, Yasuyuki ^c  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Channel aggradation; Dry ravel; Gulley erosion; Mekong River; Road related landslides; Rural development

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; EROSION RATE; GULLY EROSION; LANDSLIDE; MASS WASTING; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY;

CHINA; MEKONG RIVER; YUNNAN;

EID: 79955511158     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9614-6     Document Type: Article

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