Evolution of a risk-zoning system for landslide areas in Tasmania, Australia : Stevenson, P C; Sloane, D J Proc 3rd Australia-New Zealand conference on geomechanics, Wellington, 12–16 May 1980, V2, P73–79. Publ Wellington: New Zealand Institution of Engineers, 1980

Abstract

A man's house is his greatest material possession and to lose it is a personal disaster. The publication of reliable information of the expected risk from landslide damage can sometimes prevent this loss, and should be the task of geologists in the service of governments. Estimates of risk, made by a process such as that to be described, should be published so that land use can be designed to avoid or minimise the landslide hazard. This hazard is comparable in personal impact to that due to flood, forest fire, earthquake, or cyclone. Estimates of risk can best be presented as zones on a topographic map.