Landslides

The term landslide or less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows, and debris flows. However, influential narrower definitions restrict landslides to slumps and translational slides in rock and regolith, not involving fluidisation. This excludes falls, topples, lateral spreads, and mass flows from the definition.Landslides occur in a variety of environments, characterized by either steep or gentle slope gradients, from mountain ranges to coastal cliffs or even underwater, in which case they are called submarine landslides. Gravity is the primary driving force …

Wikipedia

Publications

CCAC: Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants · 20 March 2024 English

The IGSD Primer on Cutting Methane provides the scientific and policy rationale for decision- makers to achieve the “strong, rapid, and sustained” cuts to methane emissions needed to slow global …

through collapsing ground, rapid erosion and landslides. Here, we synthesize the best available information


Australian Energy Market Operator · 20 March 2024 English

Transmission Line Outages opening a Bus Tie connection When the outage of a transmission line results in the opening of a bus tie connection and the nature of the outage …

reclassification 57 Appendix H. Reclassification Criteria – Landslides 58 H.1 Risk to the power system 58 H.2 Reclassification Appendix G – Widespread pollutants • Appendix H – Landslides • Appendix I – Sudden or unexpected changes to Environmental factors such as forecast or actual floods, landslides etc. • Cyber security. Note: It should be noted Reclassification Criteria – Landslides H.1 Risk to the power system Landslides could occur at any time where where ground is unstable. In some areas risk of landslides increases following extended periods of rain


World Bank Group · 19 March 2024 English

In response to the growing recognition that measuring inputs, such as climatefinance, is not enough to capture the impacts of investments, the World BankGroup developed the Resilience Rating System (RRS). …

benefits in avoided damages from flooding and landslides while supporting trade, economic development


World Bank Group · 19 March 2024 English

Earth observation is a crucial source of accurate and up-to-date information of Earth's natural and manmade environments that are critical when planning for, responding to, and mitigating the effects of …

natural hazards such as flooding, earthquakes, and landslides. Globally, 145,000 square kilometers of settlement


World Bank Group · 19 March 2024 English

Building resilience to natural disasters is imperative for sustainable private sector development and growth in Malaysia. Floods have been Malaysia's most frequent natural disaster, accounting for 85 percent of all …

include storms (7 percent of all disasters) and landslides (6 percent). Data from EM-DAT also reveals that


The Australia Institute · 19 March 2024 English

The Australia Institute’s 2023 Climate Integrity Summit Thank you to all the speakers for taking the time to share their established the six principles that must sit at the heart …

to heatwaves, catastrophic floods, fires and landslides have killed address climate change are to stop


World Bank Group · 19 March 2024 English

Conducting the baselin e study on roads segments w ith landslides and climate res ilience vulnerabilities IDA /


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 19 March 2024 English

A community-led approach engages the urban poor and other stakeholders in identifying, implementing, and sustaining a project.

highly exposed to tropical cyclones, flooding, landslides, and droughts, which are likely to worsen as


CEEW: Council on Energy, Environment and Water · 19 March 2024 English

Image: Goldi Solar Enabling a Circular Economy in India’s Solar Industry: Assessing the Solar Waste Quantum About Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) The Ministry of New and Renewable …

Manufacturing scrap: This stream refers to the scrap and landslides among others. Furthermore, with the generated


ECIU: Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit · 19 March 2024 English

In South Africa, extreme heat and drought threaten some of our favourite fruit imports: we get a third (32%) of our grapes, a quarter (26%) of our navel oranges, a …

the 2015/16 El Niño, torrential rains caused landslides, flash floods and buildings to collapse. This tropical storms, which lead to intense flooding, landslides and an increase in pests (locusts and rats) and highland communities are vulnerable to floods, landslides and a lack of clean water. Changes to rainfall


View more