The national landslide database of Great Britain: Development, evolution and applications

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 941-953

  Foster, C ^a   Pennington, C V L ^a   Culshaw, M G ^a,b   Lawrie, K ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Database; GIS; Land use planning; Landslide

Indexed keywords

BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; DIGITAL HAZARD; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREAT BRITAIN; LAND-USE PLANNING; LANDSLIDE HAZARD; PLANNING POLICIES; SPATIAL DATA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS;

LANDSLIDES;

DATABASE; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GUIDELINE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSLIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84861186502     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1304-5     Document Type: Article

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