Experimental Research, Monitoring and Modeling on Landslide Hazards
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 436
Special Issue Editor
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Dear Colleagues,
Landslide hazard prevention/mitigation is one of the main topics in the research field of landslides, and it is closely related to the theme of safety of territory, manufacture, and people.
In this context, a distinction has to be introduced between local landslides that involve large volumes of soil of single slopes in well-known areas and rain-induced shallow landslides that are characterized by rapid triggers and unknown evolution and which can occur anywhere. For the former, safeguarding is easier via the most common prevention systems, based on risk reduction and monitoring. Prevention of the latter is much more difficult as landslides induced by intense rain, despite their small volume, are affected by many uncertainties, such as the absence of warnings and the unknown post-trigger trajectories and velocities (that can reach up to 9 m/s).
Due to their high distribution, rain-induced landslides have a high probability of interfering with populated areas, creating a risk to people and manufacture, so their prevention is particularly relevant. Safeguarding systems can be ideally grouped into:active and passive protection systems that act, respectively, to prevent the trigger or to protect from impacts after a landslide has been triggered.
Active protection systems are mainly slope stabilization systems, which can be traditional or based on more recent naturalistic approaches. In the latter case, the use of natural or artificial vegetation (soil bio- and ecoengineering works) is known to improve the structural, mechanical and hydraulic soil characteristics, in particular through plants’ root systems.
Among passive systems, there are the direct protection of manufacture, reputed to prevent damage to buildings and infrastructures, and early-warning systems, based on alerting the population, evacuation plans, and mitigation of the potential risks to people.
In this Special Issue, we want to explore recent advances in landslide monitoring and modeling, both in general terms and with attention to shallow rainfall-induced landslides, based on laboratory experiments, field investigations, and physical models. Moreover, papers on landslide risk mitigation and soil reinforcement through plants’ root mechanisms are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Lorella Montrasio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- landslide prevention
- shallow landslides
- early-warning model
- root reinforcement
- slope stabilization
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