Special Issue "Landslide Trends under Extreme Climate Events"

A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2019).

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Alessandro Cesare Mondini
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Guest Editor
Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica (IRPI), National Research Council, Via della Madonna Alta 126, Perugia, Italy
Interests: remote sensing; SAR; detection and mapping; landslides; machine learning
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Prof. Dr. Karl Chang
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Guest Editor
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Interests: landslide mapping and modeling; rainfall triggered landslides; applications of geographic information system

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Global warming is linked to the intensification of extreme rainfall, a primary trigger of landslides all over the world.  Sudden snow melting, permafrost degradation, and gradual and extensive drying up can also affect and modify slope stability. An increase in the frequency and the intensity of extreme climate events (e.g., hurricanes, typhoons, and heavy downpours) already observed in many regions of the world is likely to change the spatial and temporal distribution of landslides; however, these changes and the impact they have on the society are difficult to predict quantitatively. In addition, lack of systematic investigations on the relationship among extreme climate events, soil and land cover evolutions and their feedback on landslide trends is an obstacle for adaptation and risk mitigation strategies.

This Special Issue aims at collecting studies addressing:

  1. Challenges in landslide mapping, modelling, and monitoring in the presence of extreme climate events
  2. Changes in the spatial and temporal occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides at different scales
  3. Landslide early warning systems and mitigation actions in the presence of black and grey swan events
  4. New landslide trends in multi-hazard contexts

Dr. Alessandro Mondini
Prof. Dr. Karl Chang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Landslide trends
  • Hydro-meteo black swans
  • Landslide early warning systems
  • Multi-hazard

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A Novel Multi-Risk Assessment Web-Tool for Evaluating Future Impacts of Global Change in Mountainous Areas
Climate 2018, 6(4), 92; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6040092 - 21 Nov 2018
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In our study, we present a proactive decision support tool able to compute the impacts of different possible scenarios for territories impacted by mountain risks. The objective of this work was to develop and test various hazard and risk assessment methods, and to [...] Read more.
In our study, we present a proactive decision support tool able to compute the impacts of different possible scenarios for territories impacted by mountain risks. The objective of this work was to develop and test various hazard and risk assessment methods, and to implement them into a web-application platform able to show possible risks induced by global change on ecosystems and society. Four case studies were selected for their representativeness: One located in a Pyrenean valley, others in the French Alps. Methodology addressed several points. The first one was on the identification of the impacts of global environmental changes (climatic situations, land use, and socio-economic systems) on identified hazards. The second one was on the analysis of these impacts in terms of vulnerability (e.g., the places and the physical modifications of impacted stakes, as well as levels of perturbation). The third one was on the integration of developed methodologies in a single coherent framework in order to investigate and map indicators of vulnerability. The last one was on the development of a demonstration platform with GIS (Geographic Information System) capabilities and usable on the web. The architecture and the main features of the web-platform are detailed within several cases for which hazard and impact assessments are evaluated for not only past and present, but also future periods. This web-tool, mostly dedicated to stakeholders, has proven its usefulness to test various socio-economical pathways, because multiple scenarios, considered as probable in inhabited valleys, can be benchmarked, analyzed, and compared. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landslide Trends under Extreme Climate Events)
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