Landslide risk assessment : proceedings of the International Workshop on Landslide Risk Assessment, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 19-21 February 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Quantitative risk assessment for slopes and landslides--the state of the art / IUGS Working Group on Landslides, Committee on Risk Assessment -- Towards landslide risk assessment in practice / N. R. Morgenstern -- Landslide risk--systematic approaches to assessment and management / H. H. Einstein -- Landslide risk management / R. Fell and D. Hartford -- Assessment of consequence of landslides / H. N. Wong, K. K. S. Ho, and Y. C. Chan -- Problems associated with geological characterisation for quantitative landslide risk assessment / F. Baynes -- Land-use and climate-change impacts on landslides hazards in SE Britain / E. N. Bromhead and M. L. Ibsen -- Estimating the risks from landslides using historical data / D. M. Cruden -- Fatal landslides and landslide risk in Canada / S. G. Evans -- BC Hydro's approach to evaluating reservoir slope stability from a risk perspective / A. S. Imrie and D. P. Moore -- Landslide hazard and risk: current and future directions for the United States Geological Survey's landslide program / L. M. Highland -- Some methods of landslide hazard intensity mapping / O. Hungr -- Landslide risk management: key issues from a British perspective / E. M. Lee -- Landslide risk mapping: problems, limitations and developments / E. Leroi -- Challenges in applying landslide risk management to housing developments in Hong Kong / K. W. Leung, J. H. W. Yau, and W. Roberds -- Landslide stages and risk assessment issues in sensitive clays and other soft sediments / J. Locat and S. Leroueil -- Management of rock slopes on the Canadian Pacifc Railway / C. H. McKay -- Predicting low probability rapid landslides at Roxburgh Gorge, New Zealand / A. Moon -- A regulatory perspective on slope hazards and associated risks to life / G. C. Morgan -- Quantitative and semiquantitative estimation on the probability of landsliding / G. R. Mostyn and R. Fell -- Integrating risk and crisis management: meeting the needs of a sophisticated society / F. Oboni and G. Oldendorff -- Landslide hazard maps analogues to probabilistic earthquake ground motion hazard maps / D. M. Perkins -- An integrated methodology for risk assessment and risk management for developing below potential natural terrain landslides / W. J. Roberts, K. Ho, and K. W. Leung -- Mechanism and risk assessment of landslide-triggered-debris flows: lesson from the 1996.12.6 Otari debris flow disaster, Nagano, Japan / K. Sassa, H. Fukuoka, and W. Fawu -- Reliability and performance based design of slopes / W. H. Tang, T. D. Stark, and M. Angulo -- Landslide hazard and risk assessments for small projects, preliminary studies and emergency response / D. F. VanDine