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The paper presents the numerical inverse analysis of a well-documented slow-moving landslide in Southern Italy which has been active in the 70s along the banks of an artificial reservoir servicing a hydro-electric power plant. A numerical procedure was adopted to predict movements of active landslides along pre-existing slip surfaces related to changes in the groundwater regime of the affected slope. The analysis was used to: (1) evaluate the absolute and relative importance, for the observed kinematic behaviour of the phenomenon, of the two triggering factors of the landslide: rainfall and changes of the reservoir’s level, (2) assess the effectiveness of different mitigation strategies on the basis of numerical predictions based on the calibrated model of the phenomenon.
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Data on the landslide were provided by ENEL and late Prof. Renato Ribacchi, to whom the paper is dedicated.
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Calvello, M., Silvestri, F., Andreotti, D. (2013). Inverse Analysis of an Active Landslide Along the Banks of a Reservoir. In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31319-6_10
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