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Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Rainfall-Induced Landslides in Nicaragua (2000–2022): Preliminary Insights to Communicate Landslide Disaster Risk
Nicaragua’s location in the tropics makes it highly susceptible to tropical cyclones, with 22 such events causing significant damage between 1971 and...
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Assessing the Potential Rapid and Long Travelling Landslides in Sri Lanka: A Case Study of Athwelthota Landslide
Landslides are a significant natural hazard in Sri Lanka, causing colossal damage to infrastructure, property, and loss of life. The country is...
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An Integration of the Fractal Method and the Statistical Index Method for Map** Landslide Susceptibility
Appropriate land use planning and the sustainable development of residential communities play a crucial role in the development of mountainous...
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Current Perspectives on Community, Land, and Water in the Cordillera Blanca
The Cordillera Blanca is often viewed as a frontline climate change hotspot, where ice loss has created climate emergencies ranging from glacial lake...
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Lakes of the Cordillera Blanca: Typology, Inventory, Bathymetry and Evolution
Cordillera Blanca is well-known for its abundant bright blue-colored lakes, creating splendid mountain sceneries. But it is not only their aesthetic...
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How People Feel Endangered by Natural Hazards: Interpretation of Questionnaires in the Callejón de Huaylas
The objective of this study was to find out the opinion of a selected population at risk in the Cordillera Blanca. We distributed questionnaires...
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Stability of Moraine and Rock Slopes at Glacial Lakes—Two Case Studies in the Cordillera Blanca
Two presented cases of slope-specific stability assessment illustrate an approach of low-impact investigation techniques, which at the same time...
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Community-Based Landslide Disaster Mitigation on the Northern Slope of “Telaga Lele” Hill, Banjarnegara Regency, Indonesia
This chapter will present community-based landslide disaster mitigation on the northern slopes of the “Telaga Lele” hill, Banjarnegara Regency,...
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Determining Land Induced Factors for Landslide Susceptibility in Indian Cities
India has witnessed humongous growth in the frequency of landslides in the past 40–50 years. The process of urbanization, concretization, and climate...
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Architecture and Incremental Housing in Climatic and Pandemic Crisis in Lisbon and Bhopal Informal Settings
Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have heavily impacted communities living in informal settings, usually at large cities’ urban fringes. This...
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Leaving the Slum: International Collaborative Design Initiatives to Shape Capabilities During Resettlement
In Kenya, rapid urbanization tends to exclude the poor from access to adequate housing in the cities. Thus, many poor hope to afford a home on...
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Improving Post-conflict Self-recovery Programming: Addressing the Complexities in Syria
Supporting shelter self-recovery in post-conflict situations remains an area of little research and operational guidance. The sparse guidance that...
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Can Urban Factors Enhance the Integration of Asylum Seekers in Cities?
With significant migrant arrivals to several European countries in the past decades, there is a need for counter-models that define integration in a...
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Researching Crises and Solutions with Urgency and Agency: An Introduction
Living with crises is becoming the norm in several settings by disaster, inequality and poverty, armed conflicts, or wicked combinations of these....
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Basaltic and Other Low-Viscosity Lavas
This chapter summarises the eruption processes, flow behaviour, and characteristics of low-viscosity basalt lavas. Basalts are primitive magmas...
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Subaerial Pyroclastic Density Currents (Pyroclastic Flows and Surges)
Explosive eruptions can produce a spectrum of pyroclastic density currents (pdcs) which we describe in this chapter. Pdcs are potentially the most...
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Explosive Eruption Styles, Columns, and Pyroclastic Fallout Deposits
In this chapter, we consider the range of volcanic explosive eruption styles, from the smallest and least intense to the largest and most intense...
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Properties of Magmas
In this chapter the properties of magma are reviewed in order to understand how magmas behave as they rise to the Earth’s surface, why magmas erupt...
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Komatiite Lavas and Intrusions
In this Chapter, we consider ultra-low-viscosity lavas. These are represented principally by Archean ultramafic komatiites which form integral...
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Landslide Susceptibility Map** Using Satellite Images and GIS-Based Statistical Approaches in Part of Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India
Among the various natural geological phenomenon affecting the Indian peninsula, landslides have had huge damaging effects on human life and...