Heavy rainfall on steep hillslopes may cause either shallow landslides or soil superficial erosion and different flow-type phenomena may originate in adjacent/overlapping source areas. Consequently, great amount of water ...

Shallow landslides in non-collapsible, fine-grained soils are natural phenomena which, due to their simultaneous occurrence over large areas, often cause agricultural production loss, with enormous economic damage. Although ...

Nel mondo si registrano sistematicamente danni sociali, economici e ambientali indotti da subsidenza o fenomeni franosi a cinematica lenta. Per tale ragione appaiono di indubbio interesse sia per la Comunità scientifica ...

In recent years, the disasters caused by landslides tragically increased due to the demographic growth and the indiscriminate use of land. Among the different types of landslides, flow-like phenomena - often simultaneously ...

The slow-moving landslides, being able to develop in different geological contexts, yearly induce huge damages on structures and/or infrastructures interacting with them with consequent losses of economic nature. For this ...

The study on impact mechanisms of flow-like landslides against structures is still an open issue in the scientific literature. Many researchers have employed so far either experiments or numerical methods, but the evaluation of ...

In recent years, the contamination of groundwater has become a growing threat at global scale. The improper release of chemicals from numerous and different sources (landfills, leaking storage tanks, etc.) in the subsurface ...

Characterizing and forecasting the evolution of slope movements are highly studied topics due to the possible consequences of landslides on buildings, infrastructures and in terms of loss of life. The international scientific ...

Landslide early warning systems are non-structural risk mitigation strategies aiming at dealing with intolerably high probabilities of landslide occurrence by reducing risk through the reduction of the exposed elements. ...

Landslides - alone or in combination with other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods etc. - Represent a major cause of casualties and property damage in terms of direct and indirect costs. For ...