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...
Main Author: | R. Bell |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2004-01-01
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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 |
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