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A suggested method for a landslide summary

Proposition d'une méthode pour ficher les glissements de terrains

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Abstract

A Working Group of members of the International Geotechnical Societies' UNESCO Working Party on World Landslide Inventory has developed a Suggested Method for a Landslide Summary.

The Landslide Record summarizes the information provided by the Landsline Report. The annual compilation of the Landslide Records constitutes the Landslide Summary. National Landslide Summaries can be assembled annually to create a World Landslide Summary.

Several differences exist between the Report and the Record. In the Landslide Record descriptive details are omitted, the Country Code and Inventory Number are added, and the damage estimate is based on the per capita GDP for the country for that year At the National Centre a separate bibliographic database is compiled.

Once the landslide information network is established, an invaluable data source will be available at the local, national, and international level.

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Les Sociétés Internationales Géotechniques ont formé un Comité de Travail de l'Unesco pour dresser un Inventaire Mondial des glissements de terrain, et un Groupe de Travail de ce Comité a suggéré et développé une méthode pour établir un Fichier des Glissements de terrain.

Le Résumé d'un glissement de terrain condense les informations contenues dans le Compte rendu. La compilation annuelle des résumés constitue le Fichier. En assemblant annuellement les fichiers nationaux on peut créer un Fichier Mondial.

Il existe des différences entre le Compte rendu et le Résumé. Dans le Résumé on omet la description détaillée, on ajoute le Code du pays et lenuméro de l'Inventaie; l'évaluation des dégâts est basée sur le P.N.B. per capita de l'année du pays en question. Au Centre National on compile une base de données bibliographique séparée.

Une fois établi le réseau d'informations sur les glissements de terrain, une source de données de la plus grande importance au niveau local, national et international sera disponible.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, T6G 2G7, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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WORKING PARTY ON WORLD LANDSLIDE INVENTORY., Cruden, D.M. A suggested method for a landslide summary. Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology 43, 101–110 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02590177

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