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18 December 2009
AGU Presentation on the Societal Impacts of Landslides
This is the Powerpoint file from my presentation at AGU Fall Meeting in 2009 on quantifying the impacts of landslides on society, which is scheduled for Friday morning. Quantifying the impacts of landslides on society http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=293494_633966923761398750 See more presentations by Dr_Dave | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations Please feel free to download it and to make use of it in presentations etc, but please acknowledge me. If you do use …
24 October 2008
Forced to flee
IRIN, the UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs, has produced a rather nice video about the impact of lahars (a landslide in comparatively young volcanic materials) in the Philippines. The landslide occurred during Typhoon Durian (known in the Philippines as typhoon Reming) in 2006. Wikipedia image of the track of typhoon Durian (Reming) in 2006. The orange dots indicate the locations at which the typhoon was at its …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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