Quantitative risk analysis for landslides ‒ Examples from Bíldudalur, NW-Iceland

Although various methods to carry out quantitative landslide risk analyses are available, applications are still rare and mostly dependent on the occurrence of disasters. In Iceland, two catastrophic snow avalanches killed 34 people in 1995. As a consequence the Ministry of the Environment issued a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: R. Bell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2004-01-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/4/117/2004/nhess-4-117-2004.pdf