1st Edition

Landslides and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslides and Climate Change, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK, 21–24 May 2007

528 Pages

by CRC Press

528 Pages

by CRC Press

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Description

Understanding the relationship between landslides and climate change is crucially important in planning a proactive approach to hazard and risk management. Advances in geohazard modelling and prediction enable us to be better prepared for the impacts of climate change, but there is still a need for effective risk management and informed planning policy to improve the safety and... Read more

Session 1 Experience of the historical impacts of climate change on natural hazards

Session 2 Facing the challenge – landslides (and other natural hazards) and
climate change

Session 3 Advances in hazard modelling and prediction (short- and long-term)

Session 4 Experience of landslide hazard and risk management and better practices for the future

Session 5 Isle of Wight case studies

Session 6 Responding to climate change impacts at the coast

Session 7 Safer societies and sustainable communities

Session 8 Risk governance – making better planning policies and decisions