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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

landslides --- climate change impacts --- geomorphology --- landslide early warning system --- landslide modeling --- landslide hazard assessment --- debris flow --- flash flood --- glacial lake overbust flood --- Anthropocene

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Landslides are destructive processes causing casualties and damage worldwide. The majority of the landslides are triggered by intense and/or prolonged rainfall. Therefore, the prediction of the occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides is an important scientific and social issue. To mitigate the risk posed by rainfall-induced landslides, landslide early warning systems (LEWS) can be built and applied at different scales as effective non-structural mitigation measures. Usually, the core of a LEWS is constituted of a mathematical model that predicts landslide occurrence in the monitored areas. In recent decades, rainfall thresholds have become a widespread and well established technique for the prediction of rainfall-induced landslides, and for the setting up of prototype or operational LEWS. A rainfall threshold expresses, with a mathematic law, the rainfall amount that, when reached or exceeded, is likely to trigger one or more landslides. Rainfall thresholds can be defined with relatively few parameters and are very straightforward to operate, because their application within LEWS is usually based only on the comparison of monitored and/or forecasted rainfall. This Special Issue collects contributions on the recent research advances or well-documented applications of rainfall thresholds, as well as other innovative methods for landslide prediction and early warning. Contributions regarding the description of a LEWS or single components of LEWS (e.g., monitoring approaches, forecasting models, communication strategies, and emergency management) are also welcome.

loess landslide --- DAN-W --- numerical simulation --- dynamic analysis --- rainfall thresholds --- Bhutan --- shallow landslides --- landslides --- Idukki --- early warning system --- landslide hazard --- antecedent rainfall threshold --- landslide susceptibility --- satellite-derived rainfall --- TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis 3B42 (TMPA) --- tropical Africa --- rainfall --- thresholds --- physicallybased model --- hydrological monitoring --- soil water index --- large-scale landslide --- SWI–D threshold --- shallow landslide --- temporal probability --- landslide and debris flow --- China --- quantile regression --- Wayanad --- early warning --- GIS --- rainfall intensity --- optimization --- rainfall thresholds calculation --- mean annual rainfall --- lithology --- Slovenia --- n/a --- SWI-D threshold

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"An international journal with a focus on multi-disciplinary applied and fundamental research and the societal impacts related to geoenvironmental disasters triggered by various types of hazards (e.g. earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, tsunamis, intensive erosion and hydro-meteorological events)"--Home page.

Natural disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- Environmental disasters --- Ecological disturbances. --- Environmental disasters. --- Natural disasters. --- Natural calamities --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disturbance ecology --- Disturbances, Ecological --- Ecological perturbations --- Ecosystem disturbances --- Ecosystem perturbations --- Environmental disturbances --- Environmental perturbations --- Perturbations, Ecological --- earthquakes --- volcanic activity --- landslides --- tsunamis --- intensive erosion --- hydro-meteorological events --- Disasters --- Ecology --- geo-hazards --- environmental disasters --- disaster reduction --- disaster impacts --- disaster mitigation --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Protection of buildings against external influences

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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