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13 March 2023
The NRSC/ISRO Landslide Atlas of India
The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released last week a Landslide Atlas of India
6 March 2023
Luccombe: the individual impact of coastal landslides
The BBC has an article about a man in Luccombe on the Isle of Wight, whose house is threatened by a rapidly developing coastal landslide.
27 October 2021
The cost of mitigating slope safety risk for Welsh coal waste tips
Yesterday the Welsh Government released the results of an analysis of coal waste tips across South Wales. A total of 2,456 tips have been identified, of which 327 have been determined to have the potential to cause risk to safety.
16 October 2019
Landslide risk management in Rio de Janeiro
A review of the extensive early warning system used to manage landslide risk in the favellas of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, a city that faces multiple landslide hazards
3 November 2017
Managing the hazards in Franz Josef, New Zealand
A new report analyses options for managing the hazards in Franz Josef in New Zealand. It concludes that: “Do nothing is not an option”
3 October 2017
Murchison Hut: an interesting landslide problem in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park
Murchison Hut: a skiers and climbers refuge closed by a large, progressive rockslide in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in South Island, New Zealand
24 April 2017
The Wellington earthquake landslide problem
A few days ago a newspaper in New Zealand highlighted the potential Wellington earthquake landslide problem. Research is ongoing into this key issue
16 January 2017
Future shock – the failure to learn from the 2015 earthquake in Nepal
To mark National Earthquake Day, the Nepal Times has a series of articles entitled Future Shock that examines the failure to learn from the 2015 earthquake
15 December 2016
On the difference between prediction and foresight in landslide hazard assessment
The assessment of the likely future behaviour of a slope is very difficult. Whilst prediction of behaviour may be impossible, it can often be foreseen
11 October 2016
The Sucun landslide: missed opportunities to protect the village
The Sixth Tone has published two articles evaluating the missed opportunities to prevent the Sucun landslide disaster in China, which killed 27 people last week
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