Shallow-landslide susceptibility in the Costa Viola mountain ridge (southern Calabria, Italy) with considerations on the role of causal factors

Natural Hazards

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 111-136

  Iovine, Giulio G R ^a   Greco, Roberto ^a   Gariano, Stefano L ^a   Pellegrino, Annamaria D ^b   Terranova, Oreste G ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Regional Health Authority of Calabria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabria; Logistic regression; Sensitivity analysis; Shallow landslide; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; INSTABILITY; LANDSLIDE; MOUNTAIN REGION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCKFALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

SCILLA;

EID: 84905048238     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1129-0     Document Type: Article

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