Landslide hazard management — experience in the United States : Schuster, R L Proc Conference on Slope Stability Engineering: Developments and Applications, Isle of Wight, 15–18 April 1991P253–263. Publ London: Thomas Telford, 1991

Abstract

Effective management has reduced economic and social losses due to slope failure in the United States by avoiding the hazards or by reducing the damage potential. This is achieved primarily by four mitigative approaches: (a) restriction of development in landslide-prone areas; (b) excavating, grading, landscaping, and construction codes; (c) use of physical measures to prevent or control landslides; and (d) landslide warning systems. (Keynote paper in the section on coastal stability). For the covering abstract see IRRD 877809.