Book Description
This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM presents an library of documents covering landslide hazards, including the work of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Landslide Hazards Mitigation program.

Contents include:

A Framework for Loss Reduction - USGS Circular 1244 * National Landslide Mitigation Strategy * Wildfire-Induced Debris Flows * National Landslide * Hazards Program * National Landslide Information Center * Landslide Program Publications * Recent Landslide Events * People and Projects

The National Landslide Hazards Program (NLHP) has operated since the mid-1970's in gathering information, conducting research, responding to emergencies and disasters, and producing scientific reports and other products for a broadly based user community. The NLHP provides results of investigations for use by private consultants in geology and geotechnical engineering, and planners and decision makers from governmental entities at all levels. The results of these efforts have led to significant improvements in understanding the nature and scope of ground-failure problems nationally and worldwide. Such improvements are central to the role of the program, because opportunities remain for fundamental advances in understanding that promise to save lives and dollars nationwide.

Landslides constitute a major geologic hazard because they are widespread, occurring in all 50 states, and cause $1-2 billion in damages and more than 25 fatalities on average each year. Landslides pose serious threats to highways and structures that support fisheries, tourism, timber harvesting, mining, and energy production as well as general transportation. Landslides commonly occur with other major natural disasters. such as earthquakes and floods that exacerbate relief and reconstruction efforts and expanded development and other land use has increased the incidence of landslide disasters. Landslides are common throughout the Appalachian region and New England. The greatest eastern hazard is from sliding of clay-rich soils; related damages in urban areas such as Pittsburgh, PA, and Cincinnati, OH, are among the greatest in the U.S. Landslides also occur across the Great Plains and into the mountain areas of the western U.S. in weathered shales and other clay-rich rocks particularly where there are steep slopes, periodic heavy rains, and vegetation loss has occurred after wildfires. Earthquakes and volcanoes also cause landslides; the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington was preceded by the by the development of a large landslide on the north side of the volcano. The Northridge earthquake in 1994 in the San Fernando Valley triggered thousands of landslides in the Santa Susanna Mountains north of the epicenter. The enormous damages from landslides can be reduced. The primary objective of the Landslide Hazards Program is to reduce long-term losses from these hazards by improving our understanding of the causes of ground failure and suggesting mitigation strategies.

This incredible CD-ROM has thousands of pages, reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material.

Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where y ... Read more

Book Description
This book comprises the Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Landslides, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from June 28 to July 2, 2004. State-of-the-art information on the latest developments in Landslide Studies is presented by invited lecture reports, specialized panel contributions and 244 technical papers, grouped in the following themes: mapping and geological models in landslide hazard assessment; advances in rock and mine slopes design; field instrumentation and laboratory investigations; pre-failure mechanics of landslides in soil and rock; mechanisms of slow active landslides; post-failure mechanics of landslides; stabilization methods and risk reduction measures. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Campaigns & Elections, published by Campaigns & Elections, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: President, Landslide Group Inc., a Chicago-based Republican general and strategic consulting firm.(Movers & Shakers)
Author: Dan Patlak
Publication: Campaigns & Elections (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Campaigns & Elections, Inc.
Volume: 24Issue: 9Page: 18(1)

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