This book is an engineering guide for design of slopes and stabilisation works in rocks and residual soils. It is tailored to the practising geotechnical engineer and engineering geologist. Engineering and engineering geology students will find it quite useful and a practical course guide. It can be used as textbook in courses on landslides and slope stabilisation. The book's purpose is to present a concise documentation on how to design slopes and how to select a slope stabilisation method. The authors were selected among those who have lots of experience in their field.

This work reviews soil mechanics in the light of critical state soil mechanics. A number of exercises are provided, and a microcomputer program, "Cris," used for simulation of the behaviour of soil samples subjected to triaxial tests through the critical state models, accompanies the text.