Rainfall-Induced Geological Disasters

Dear Colleagues,

Rainfall is a primary cause of geological disasters such as landslides and debris flows, which pose a major natural threat to people, infrastructure, lifelines, and economic activities in many countries. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of rainfall-induced geological disasters and designing effective control and mitigation measures are considered to be societal priorities. Engineering geologists have focused on the effects of rainfall infiltration on soil strength and slope stability in saturated and unsaturated conditions. Hydrologists have concentrated their efforts on the processes that control surface and subsurface stormflow at the hillslope and catchment scale. However, there are significant technical challenges associated with the mechanisms and prevention of rainfall-induced geological disasters.

This Special Issue, “Rainfall-Induced Geological Disasters,” will cover the recent advances and future developments concerning the initiation mechanism, monitoring techniques, forecasting models, early warning, regional risk assessment, mitigation and prevention measures of rainfall-induced geological disasters. In addition to these topics, we invite the submission of original research articles and synthetic reviews on the general topics of field investigations, novel data acquisition techniques, laboratory and model experiment research, numerical approaches, and the application of artificial intelligence approaches.

Prof. Dr. Xingwei Ren
Prof. Dr. Zili Dai
Prof. Dr. Fangzhou Liu
Guest Editors

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