Landslides
Landslides cause tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage throughout
the world every year, and losses are increasing due to a growing popula-
tion and new development in potentially unstable areas. Fundamentally
they have geological causes but can have natural triggers such as rain-
fall, snowmelt, erosion, and earthquakes, or can be triggered by human
actions such as agriculture and construction. To reduce the threat that
landslides pose to public safety and property, research aimed at provid-
ing a better understanding of slope stability and failure has accelerated
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in recent years. This acceleration has been accompanied by basic field
research and numerical modeling of slope failure processes, mechanisms
of debris movement, and landslide causes and triggers.
Written by 78 of the leading researchers and practitioners in the
world, this book provides a state-of-the-art summary of landslide sci-
ence. It features both field geology and engineering approaches, as well
as modeling of slope failure and runout using a variety of numerical
codes. The book is illustrated with international case studies that inte-
grate geological, geotechnical, and remote sensing studies, and include
recent slope investigations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
This comprehensive and complete one-stop synthesis of current land-
slide research forms an essential reference for researchers and graduate
students in geomorphology, engineering geology, geotechnical engin-
eering, and geophysics, as well as professionals in the field of natural
hazard analysis.
john j . clague is the Canada Research Chair in Natural Hazard
Research at Simon Fraser University and also, at the same institution,
Director of the Centre for Natural Hazard Research. He has published
over 250 papers in 45 different journals on a range of earth science
disciplines, including glacial geology, geomorphology, stratigraphy,
sedimentology, and natural hazards. Professor Clague’s other princi-
pal professional interest is improving public awareness of earth science
by making relevant geoscience information available: he has written
two popular books on the geology and geologic hazards of southwest
British Columbia and a textbook on natural hazards. He is the recipi-
ent of the Geological Society of America Burwell Award, the Royal
Society of Canada Bancroft Award, the Geological Association of
Canada’s (GAC) 2006 E. R. W. Neale Medal and GAC’s 2007 Logan
Medal. He was the 2007/8 Richard Jahns Distinguished Lecturer for the
Geological Society of America and the Association of Environmental
and Engineering Geology.
douglas stead has over 30 years’ experience in rock and soil slope
stability in industry, government and academia in the UK, Zambia,
Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, and Canada. He is now Professor
and Chair in Resource Geoscience and Geotechnics at Simon Fraser
University. He has published extensively in the areas of rock mechan-
ics and engineering geology with application to landslides, and to sur-
face and underground mining. Dr. Stead has a strong commitment to
continuing development courses for professional engineers and geosci-
entists – delivering courses on methods of data collection and numer-
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ical modeling of rock slopes. He is a Professional Engineer in British
Columbia and a Chartered Engineer in the UK and is currently a mem-
ber of the Engineering Geology Editorial Board and an Associate Editor
of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal. He is a recipient of the Canadian
Geotechnical Society Thomas Roy Award for Engineering Geology
(2008) and the John Franklin Award for Rock Mechanics (2009).
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