Landslides and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions: Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslides and Climate Change, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK, 21û24 May 2007

by McInnes; Robin

• ISBN13: 9780415443180
• ISBN10: 0415443180
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-10
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Understanding the relationship between landslides and climate change is crucially important in planning a proactive approach to hazard and risk management. Advances in geohazard modelling and prediction enable us to be better prepared for the impacts of climate change, but there is still a need for effective risk management and informed planning policy to improve the safety and sustainability of communities at risk. The increasing frequency of extreme weather events has highlighted our vulnerability to the impact of climate change, and has resulted in enormous human and economic loss. This book presents the Proceedings of the International Conference on '¬ÜLandslides and Climate Change '¬ ; Challenges and Solutions'¬", which was held in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK in May 2007. The volume considers the practical experiences of hazard management, risk governance and response to climate change, and will be of interest to engineers, planners, practitioners, regional and local authorities, academics and politicians.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. IX
Acknowledgements	p. XI
Organising Committee	p. XIII
Opening address
Landslides and climate change: A world perspective, but a complex question	p. 3
Experience of the historical impacts of climate change on natural hazards
Landslides and historic climate in northern British Columbia	p. 9
Folkestone Warren landslides and the impact of the past rainfall record	p. 17
Increased rockslide activity in the middle Holocene? New evidence from the Tyrolean Alps (Austria)	p. 25
Landslide characteristics and rainfall distribution in Taiwan	p. 35
Is the current landslide activity in the Daunia region (Italy) controlled by climate or land use change?	p. 41
Debris-flow activity in the Ritigraben torrent (Valais Alps, Switzerland): Will there be less but bigger events in a future greenhouse climate?	p. 51
Coastal zone evolution - evidence of climate change	p. 59
The relationship between rainfall and mass movements on plio-pleistocene sediments in south-western Umbria (central Italy)	p. 63
Facing the challenge - landslides (and other natural hazards) and climate change
Radiocarbon dating on landslides in the Northern Apennines (Italy)	p. 73
Developing a strategy for coastal cliff monitoring and management	p. 81
Combining slope stability and coast protection at Seagrove Bay on the Isle of Wight	p. 91
Recent landslide impacts in Scotland: Possible evidence of climate change?	p. 99
Geotechnical centrifuge modelling of slope failure induced by ground water table change	p. 107
Climate change and evolution of landslide hazard at Nefyn Bay, North Wales	p. 113
Control of soil properties on the Scottish debris flow geohazard and implications of projected climate change	p. 121
Advances in hazard modelling and prediction (short- and long-term)
Hydromechanical modelling of a large landslide considering climate change conditions	p. 131
Using artificial intelligence in an integrated risk management programme for a large alpine landslide	p. 143
Case studies of landslide risk due to climate change in Sweden	p. 149
Overview mapping of landslide and flooding hazards using LIDAR monitoring and GIS-processing	p. 159
GPS and GIS based technique for a full-system of registration, management and publishing information of slopes along highways in JKR (PWD) Malaysia	p. 171
Process-based empirical prediction of landslides in weakly lithified coastal cliffs, San Francisco, California, USA	p. 175
A comparison between analytic approaches to model rainfall-induced development of shallow landslides in the central Apennine of Italy	p. 185
Assessing the influence of climate change on the activity of landslides in the Ubaye Valley	p. 195
Pre-failure behaviour of slope materials and their significance in the progressive failure of landslides	p. 207
Physical and numerical modelling of chalk slopes	p. 217
PAGeR - a cost-effective approach to geotechnical risk assessment and remediation for flood defence embankments	p. 223
Development of a pore pressure prediction model	p. 229
Impact of climate change on rock slope stability: Monitoring and modelling	p. 237
Experience of landslide hazard and risk management and better practices for the future
Landslide management and mitigation on the Scottish road network	p. 249
Climate change impacts on landslide mechanisms and hazard in southern UK	p. 259
Monitoring systems using chemical sensors to protect railroad operation from landslide disasters	p. 269
Networking for the future - addressing climate change effects on slope instability	p. 275
Laser survey and mechanical modelling of chalky sea cliff collapse in Normandy, France	p. 281
Development of a landslide hazard assessment model for cut-slopes along the Tamparuli - Sandakan road in Sabah, Malaysia	p. 289
Landslide and chalk fall management on the Folkestone to Dover railway line, Kent	p. 295
The Tessina landslide and the Civil Defence Plan	p. 305
Landslides associated with the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, West Indies	p. 311
Isle of Wight case studies
Ventnor Undercliff: Development of landslide scenarios and quantitative risk assessment	p. 323
Climate change, so what? Implications for ground movement and landslide event frequency in the Ventnor Undercliff, Isle of Wight	p. 335
Monitoring coastal slope instability within the western Undercliff landslide, Isle of Wight, UK	p. 345
Reactivation of an ancient landslip, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight: Event history, mechanisms, causes, climate change and landslip potential	p. 355
The Ventnor Undercliff: Landslide model, mechanisms and causes, and the implications of climate change induced ground behaviour and risk	p. 365
Litho-stratigraphy of the Ventnor Undercliff and determination of critical horizons through borehole geophysics	p. 377
Responding to climate change impacts at the coast
Preparing for climate change impacts at the coast: Identifying patterns of risk and prioritising a response	p. 389
Response: Applied earth science mapping for evaluation of climate change impacts on coastal hazards and risk across the EU	p. 397
Application and implementation of the Response methodology to evaluate the impact of climate change on the Aquitaine and Languedoc Roussillon coastlines	p. 407
Erosive processes and related hazards in the coastal zone	p. 415
Lyme Regis phase II coast protection & slope stabilisation scheme, Dorset, UK - the influence of climate change on design	p. 419
Downdrift erosion and the frequency of coastal landsliding	p. 429
Managing the impact of climate change on vulnerable areas: A case study of the Western Isles, UK	p. 435
Allowing for climate change; an innovative solution to landslide stabilisation in an environmentally sensitive area on the Isle of Wight	p. 443
Safer societies and sustainable communities
Economic assessment of natural risks due to climate change. The case of an Italian mountain region	p. 455
Interpreting detailed site issues at a strategic level through local policy	p. 463
Drawing a line with coastal communities	p. 467
Sleeping demons & terrified horses: Determining the onset of instability	p. 475
Application of landslide studies for risk reduction in the Andean community of Reinaldo Espinoza, southern Ecuador	p. 481
The effect of waste water disposal on coastal slope stability and the problem of climate change	p. 489
Risk governance - making better planning policies and decisions
The planning response to climate change	p. 497
Landslide management in a changing climate - coordinating the community response	p. 505
Author index	p. 513
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