The Rwenzori Mountains, a landslide-prone region?

Landslides

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 519-536

  Jacobs, Liesbet ^a,b   Dewitte, Olivier ^b   Poesen, Jean ^c   Delvaux, Damien ^b   Thiery, Wim ^c   Kervyn, Matthieu ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Archive analysis; Equatorial mountains; Inventory; Mass movement; Triggering factors

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; LANDFORMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN;

ARCHIVE ANALYSIS; EQUATORIAL MOUNTAINS; INVENTORY; MASS MOVEMENT; TRIGGERING FACTORS;

LANDSLIDES;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FAULTING; FLASH FLOOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVENTORY; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION GROWTH; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

RWENZORI MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84928408832     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-015-0582-5     Document Type: Article

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