Landslides/landslide mitigation.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Compound landslides: nature and hazard potential of secondary landslides within host landslides -- Surficial slope failures in southern California hillside residential areas: lessons from the 1978 and 1980 rainstorms -- The concept of 'reasonable care' on unstable hillsides -- Differentiation between normal residence performance and landslide-related distress in the evaluation and treatment of slope instability in southern California -- The Mameyes, Puerto Rico, landslide disaster of October 7, 1985 -- Landslide failure at 20510 Callon Drive, Topanga, California, March 1978 -- Landslide mitigation using horizontal drains, Pacific Palisades Area, Los Angeles, California -- Ground water in the Abalone Cove landslide, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Southern California -- Thistle landslide: was mitigation possible? -- Recent developments in landslide mitigation techniques