Landslides
The term landslide or less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows, and debris flows. However, influential narrower definitions restrict landslides to slumps and translational slides in rock and regolith, not involving fluidisation. This excludes falls, topples, lateral spreads, and mass flows from the definition.Landslides occur in a variety of environments, characterized by either steep or gentle slope gradients, from mountain ranges to coastal cliffs or even underwater, in which case they are called submarine landslides. Gravity is the primary driving force …
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National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health · 15 March 2024 English
Temporary evacuations due to fires or floods could affect stored water quality due to disuse and stagnation causing increased water age and growth of bacteria and biofilms, enhanced by moderate …
water harder to treat and increasing the risk of landslides or debris flows that could damage infrastructure … movements (e.g., due to permafrost melting, flooding, landslides etc.) more flexible materials and fittings may …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 15 February 2024 English
Change Impacts Heat waves Drought Habitat loss Landslides Wildfires Erosion Flooding Deforestation Agriculture …
APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 3 February 2024 English
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mining-induced deforestation has resulted in a 58 per landslides due to mining activities that can impact cent … from prone to environmental hazards, including landslides the conclusion of these agreements, which, alongside …
CRRF: Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation · 18 January 2024
This report describes the ten-year history of the village since the Great earthquake and the TEPCO nuclear accident, including village countermeasures, the evacuation, decontamination, the start of the return to …
places by rockfalls, shoulder depressions, and landslides. Village officials prepared meals in front of … There was a lot of road damage by rockfalls and landslides as well as housing damage. At the TEPCO Fukushima …
CRRF: Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation · 18 January 2024 English
This report describes the ten-year history of the village since the Great earthquake and the TEPCO nuclear accident, including village countermeasures, the evacuation, decontamination, the start of the return to …
places by rockfalls, shoulder depressions, and landslides. Village officials prepared meals in front of … There was a lot of road damage by rockfalls and landslides as well as housing damage. At the TEPCO Fukushima …
Mulroney Institute of Government · 12 January 2024 English
In the case of Mulroney and Reagan, their friendship paved the way for a series of important policy initiatives, including the passage of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, and placing …
the popular vote, one of the greatest political landslides in American history. As a businessman in New …
POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, University of Victoria · 21 December 2023 English
The project involves the restoration of nearly 520 hectares of wetlands that were disconnected from the surrounding river system in the 1960s by a series of ditches, dikes, pumps and …
2021, when atmospheric rivers of rain spurred landslides that killed five people. Widespread flooding …
ICCA: Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation · 11 December 2023
of people to safely evacuate, and the amount of The following are specific examples of how wildfires damage and disruption that occurs during and after can affect various systems, many …
there can be an power supplies. increased risk of landslides in some areas, which can further disrupt road … (Figure 4). repellent soil, increasing the risk of landslides, Wildfire-Ready: Practical Guidance to Strengthen …
West Coast Environmental Law · 31 October 2023 English
ples and the revitalization of strong, living Indigenous laws, consistent with the UN Declaration on the Rights We recognize the jurisdiction and laws of Indigenous of Indigenous Peoples and calls …
wildlife habitat, protection from flooding and landslides, and access to clean freshwater. Through our …
TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity · 27 October 2023 English
It uses the TEEB approach (stating the context, values, and purpose to be used for valuation) and valuation framework (indicating what impacts should be valued and why), known methodologies for …
sedimentation, nitrification, air pollution or landslides. Indicators of land degradation include soil …
