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In recent years, landslides and their impacts have drawn increasing awareness globally, regionally, and locally. Landslides as catastrophic events can cause human injury, loss of life, and economic devastation as well as destroy infrastructures and cultural and natural heritage. New technologies, including interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and geographic information systems (GIS), are being thoroughly adopted and applied to dynamic and process monitoring and modelling of coal mine and marine landslides, land subsidence, and tsunami landslides. These technologies are also being used for hazard mapping and assessment, early warning and evacuation, and regional or local landslide mitigation. This book discusses these topics and more.

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Landslides are among the most widespread and frequent natural hazards. Landsliding is linked to the combination of geological, geomorphological, and climatic factors in response to trigger mechanisms, mostly represented by heavy rainfall events, seismicity, or human action. Landslides directly and indirectly impact a territory, causing fatalities and huge socio-economic losses. Consequently, to avoid serious consequences and support sustainable territorial planning, there is a clear need of correct land use policies and best practices for long-term risk mitigation and reduction. In this context, geomorphological field activities, satellite remote sensing, landslide susceptibility mapping, and innovative GIS analysis offer effective support for mapping and monitoring landslides’ activity at both the local and regional scales. All landslide types are considered, from rockfalls to debris flows, from slow-moving slides to very rapid rock avalanches. Contributions to this Special Issue report key advances in landslide susceptibility mapping, environmental risk management in mass movement-prone areas, and landslide analysis in different geomorphological/morphostructural environments. Each article describes a distinct methodological approach to accurately investigate landslide phenomena and assess slope stability. Each article provides a scientific basis useful for the implementation of land planning, civil protection activities, and mitigation measures in different geological–geomorphological frameworks.

Kenya --- landslide susceptibility --- fuzzy analytic hierarchy process --- triangular fuzzy numbers --- GIS --- interaction matrix --- heuristic --- susceptibility --- inventory --- Greece --- historical landslides --- multitemporal analysis --- geomorphological mapping --- GIS analysis --- piedmont area --- Abruzzo Region --- landslide --- hydromechanical modeling --- early-warning --- slope stability --- rainfall-induced landslides --- local factor of safety --- SoilNet --- geophysical characterization --- water content distribution --- bedrock topography --- large-scale landslides --- DSGSDs --- normal faults and overthrusts --- Sibillini Mts. --- Central Apennines --- Italy --- risk --- soil sealing --- landslides --- factor of safety --- numerical models --- Hoek–Brown method --- monoclinal setting --- hybrid modeling --- Geographical Detector --- information value --- machine learning --- Kerala --- hazard --- hydroseeding --- slope --- vegetation --- AHP --- snow avalanche --- mass movements-prone areas --- hazard assessment --- climate extremization --- environmental risk --- Gran Sasso Massif --- morphotectonic --- morphostratigraphy --- DGSDs --- river capture --- fluvial terraces --- Sardinia --- n/a --- Hoek-Brown method

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Today, modern Geotechnical Engineers, who in the past would have considered the phenomena occurring in the (primarily soil) environment, are faced with developments in environmental sciences that are becoming increasingly more detailed and sophisticated, with the natural phenomena and processes surrounding the civil engineering infrastructure being modeled, designed, monitored, and assessed in a more holistic way. This book brings together the state of the art in geotechnics with a focus on sustainable design, resilience, construction, and monitoring of the performance of geotechnical assets from ground investigations, through foundation and drainage design to soil stabilization and reinforcement. Engineers and scientists working in the fields of green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, sustainable drainage, eco-engineering, hydro-geology, landscape planning, plant science, environmental biology or bio-chemistry, earth sciences, GIS, and remote sensing are represented here by articles that show significant geotechnical components or applications. Case studies showcasing the application of the sustainable development principles (e.g., reuse, recycle, reduce; stakeholder engagement; public health; UN Global Sustainability Goals) in Geotechnics are also included in this book.

machine learning --- random forest --- particle swarm optimization --- Vietnam --- Seepage --- Earth-fill dam --- Experimental analysis --- Numerical analysis --- SEEP/W model --- Dam safety and sustainability --- highway construction --- environmental protection --- soil loss --- erosion control --- risk --- hazard --- vulnerability --- landslides --- multicriteria assessment --- analytical hierarchy process --- calcium sulfoaluminate cement --- stabilized soil --- unconfined compressive strength --- hydration products --- microstructure --- sustainability --- geosynthetics --- poly(lactic acid) --- biopolymers --- geogrids --- tensile strength --- n/a

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Contemporary development debates in Latin America are marked by the pursuit of economic growth, technological improvement and poverty reduction, and are overshadowed by growing concerns about the preservation of the environment and human rights. This collection’s multidisciplinary perspective links local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry into the interaction of state and non-state actors involved in promoting or opposing natural resource development. Taking this approach allows the book to contemplate the complex panorama of competing visions, concepts and interests grounded in the mutual influences and interdependencies which shape the contemporary arena of social-environmental conflicts in the region.

Sustainable development --- Natural resources --- Mineral industries --- Human rights --- Environmental aspects --- Latin America --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Extractive industries --- Extractive industry --- Metal industries --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Mining industry --- Mining industry and finance --- Industries --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Law and legislation --- Economic aspects --- indigenous people --- environment --- human rights --- extractivism --- China --- rainforest --- healing plants --- nature --- trees --- REDD+ --- Human Rights Impact Assessments --- violence --- neogeography --- urbanism --- floods --- landslides --- Grand Canal --- Nicaragua --- decoloniality --- colonialism --- neocolonialism --- eco-violence --- ecology --- natural environment

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue titled “Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Urban Cultural Heritage” hosted at the Atmosphere journal. This topic has been chosen in light of cities’ ever-growing role and immense potential in the climate adaptation and mitigation discourse and the particular challenges regarding urban heritage making and conservation. It is critical to recognise the complex set of factors governing the physical, social and political future of urban heritage in cityscapes in constant transformation and in an era of planetary urbanisation. The 10 papers (seven research papers, two reviews and one opinion piece) that comprise the issue give a broad cross-section of the issues pertinent to this important topic – accounts on practices and conceptual/methodological improvements in energy retrofit and reuse, risk mapping, urban planning, climate vulnerability assessment, and community engagement by 38 authors from seven countries are used to delineate the implications of current and likely future climates on heritage materials and systems, knowledge and practice gaps, as well as steps that need to be taken to ensure both their safeguarding and their valorisation to achieve climate resiliency.

historic buildings --- risk assessment --- WDR --- resilience --- sustainability --- extreme value analysis --- heritage values --- energy efficiency --- thermal comfort --- heritage conservation --- original features --- system dynamics --- social practices --- decision-making --- historic building --- durability --- performance --- life cycle analysis --- land-use --- tropics --- urban microclimate --- built heritage retrofit --- energy-efficient retrofit policy --- conservation policy --- UK --- Turkey --- earthquakes --- fire --- floods --- historic sites --- landslides --- museums --- insects --- sea level rise --- typhoons --- visitors --- extreme events --- climate projection --- Central Europe --- ProteCHt2save --- climate risk indices --- heritage climatology --- cultural heritage safeguarding --- preparedness --- energy-efficient retrofit --- historic residential buildings --- energy consumption prediction --- heritage buildings --- lithotype --- salt weathering --- kaolinisation --- microcracking --- weather events --- cultural heritage --- urban planning --- climate change --- n/a