On landslide risk assessment based on an integrated approach

Abstract: Recently, the journal “Geoinfo ” published an adapted translation of a very voluminous review “Recommendations for the quantitative analysis of landslide risk” by an international group of researchers. The original review was published in the journal “Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment” in 2014. More than ten years have passed since 2014, but since then we have not seen such a capacious and detailed review intended for using by engineering geologists working in the direction of assessing landslide risks for reduction or prevention of them. However, in the footsteps of that review, many papers by various authors have been written and are being written. For example, in 2019, the Colombian journal “DYNA” published paper by Latin American specialists “Landslide risk assessment in slopes and hillsides. Methodology and application in a real case” [3]. After a short but quite remarkable review of the literature on the relevant topic, the authors of the paper proposed a general technique for assessing landslide risks on the basis of an integrated approach, and then they considered a specific case of its application in practice. Here we will give a brief overview of the materials of that paper.

This review was carried out with the support of the “PETROMODELING” group of companies and Alexey Bershov.

Keywords: landslide risk; landslide hazard; quantitative analysis; stability; vulnerability; exposure; susceptibility