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The Southern flank of Sierra Nevada and coastal Mediterranean areas of South Spain, in the Andalusian Granada Province, a high number of urban settlements and roads have been affected by landslides and instability problems since the fifties. In this period, a very quick economic development with an intense annual increase of touristic demand gave place to rapid enlargements of formerly small villages, and the widespread land-use change from agricultural to urban not only around the pre-existing urban centres, but also in many new developed lands along the coast for urbanization or leisure services. This Mediterranean coast, in the uplifting section of the Eurasia an African plates, is mainly excavated on metapelites of the Betic Cordillera Internal Zone, showing very inclined if not vertical slopes on Lower Triassic to Paleozoic series of marble, schist, phyliite and quartzite units, very deformed and weathered, so giving place to instability problems which are described in this paper.
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The support by the Andalusian Plan of Research of the Groups RNM 121: Environmental Investigations, Terrain Engineering and Geological Hazard (University of Granada).
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Chacón, J. et al. (2014).
Urban Landslides at the South of Sierra Nevada and Coastal Areas of the Granada Province (Spain).
In: Sassa, K., Canuti, P., Yin, Y. (eds) Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04996-0_65
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