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25 February 2021
Landslides and sustainable development: managing the cost of landslides in less developed countries
Landslides and sustainable development: managing the cost of landslides in less developed countries. My keynote lecture from the XIII International Symposium on Landslides
17 November 2011
Blogging on Hazard, Risk and Disasters
A powerpoint file from the lecture that I gave yesterday about blogging on hazard, risk and disasters.
11 March 2010
Manchester talk on the Sichuan Earthquake disaster
Yesterday I gave a talk to the Manchester branches of the Geographical Association and the Geological Association on the causes of the Sichuan (Wenchuan) earthquake disaster. As usual I promised to make my slides available via Authorstream. You should be able to download the presentation as well as viewing it below.: 10_03 Manchester 1 http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=346062_634038962411343750 See more presentations by Dr_Dave | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations
26 November 2009
The damage caused by landslides during earthquakes
Below is the presentation file of the keynote lecture that I gave today at the Chilean Geological Congress in Santiago. I have removed a few of the figures as they have not yet been published. You should be able to download and to view the file below: Damage caused by earthquake landslides http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=278331_633948356710621250 See more presentations by Dr_Dave | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations The powerpoint file is hosted on Authorstream, which …
25 August 2008
Presentation from New Zealand
This week I am giving three presentations in New Zealand – first in Christchurch today, then Wellington tomorrow and Auckland on Thursday. The title of the presentation is Earthquake Induced Landslides – Lessons from Taiwan and Pakistan. The talk is to the various branches of the New Zealand Geotechnical Society and the New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering. I have uploaded the presentation to authorstream so that it can be …
3 July 2008
Xian paper on landslide prediction and the Saito effect
Tomorrow (Friday) I am due to present a paper at the 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes. The paper title is: “Temporal prediction in landslides – understanding the Saito effect”. The power point file is below (there appears to be a fault on slideshare that is preventing this from being visible on blogger. If it is not visible below, you can get it from here): http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=0806-xian-saito-talk-2003v-1215095797361691-9 | View …
1 July 2008
Xian Round Table Powerpoint file
Today I participated in a round table discussion at the 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes. The topic of the discussion was: “Strength criteria and design approaches for difficult soils and rocks”. Each of the four panelists was asked to talk for 10-12 minutes before the panel discussion started. I was asked to talk about “Slow Moving Rockslides”. So, below is my deliberately somewhat provocative presentation. (there appears …
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