Landslides represent one of the most destructive natural
catastrophes. They can reach extremely long distances and
velocities, and are capable of wiping out human communities and
settlements. Yet landslides have a creative facet as they
contribute to the modification of the landscape. They are the
consequence of the gravity pull jointly with the tectonic
disturbance of our living planet.
Landslides are most often studied within a geotechnical and
geomorphological perspective. Engineering calculations are
traditionally applied to the stability of terrains. In this book,
landslides are viewed as a physical phenomenon. A physical
understanding of landslides is a basis for modeling and mitigation
and for understanding their flow behavior and dynamics. We still
know relatively little about many aspects of landslide physics. It
is only recently that the field of landslide dynamics is
approaching a more mature stage. This is testified by the release
of modelling tools for the simulation of landslides and debris
flows. In this book the emphasis is placed on the problems at the
frontier of landslide research. Each chapter is self-consistent,
with questions and arguments introduced from the beginning.
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