Landslides in Sensitive Clays From Geosciences to Risk Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: L'Heureux, Jean-Sébastien (Editor), Locat, Ariane (Editor), Leroueil, Serge (Editor), Demers, Denis (Editor), Locat, Jacques (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 36
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Natural disasters.; Environmental sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.

Landslides in sensitive clays represent a major hazard in the northern countries of the world such as Canada, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and in the US state of Alaska. Past and recent examples of catastrophic landslides at e.g. Saint-Jean-Vianney in 1971, Rissa in 1979, Finneidfjord in 1996 and...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Sensitive clay: source, nature and development
• Part II: Landslide characterization
• Part III: Integrated geotechnical and geophysical site investigations
• Part IV: Slope stability, modelling and progressive failure
• Part V: Hazard assessment, risk management, regulations and policies.