Engineering measures for landslide disaster mitigation

Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 609-631

  Popescu, Mihail E ^a   Sasahara, Katsuo ^b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back analysis; Debris flows; Effectiveness and acceptability of remedial measures; Engineering measures; Landslide disaster mitigation; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEBRIS; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BACK ANALYSIS; DEBRIS FLOWS; DISASTER MITIGATION; ENGINEERING MEASURES; REMEDIAL MEASURES;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84887436287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69970-5_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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