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Synthesis—Towards Integrated Assessment of Landslide Risk

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Landslides in terms of their causes or triggers and the risk they entail on society show most often a natural geomorphic and human dimension (e.g., Sidle et al. 1985; Alexander 1989; Nadim et al. 2011; Sect. 1.1). These two dimensions are closely interconnected as a result of widespread urbanization and the global dominance of cultivated landscapes (e.g., Václavík et al. 2013; United Nations 2014). A large part of terrestrial landslides are thus occurring in a spatial setting where human activity is not just vulnerable to landslides but is also controlling their physical processes to some extent. Fundamental understanding of landslide risk requires therefore knowledge on how people are contributing to this risk by their own land use practices.

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Klose, M. (2015). Synthesis—Towards Integrated Assessment of Landslide Risk. In: Landslide Databases as Tools for Integrated Assessment of Landslide Risk. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20403-1_6

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