This book presents current progress in landslide science and consists of four parts: progress in landslide science, landslide dynamics, landslide monitoring, and landslide risk assessment. It provides useful information to those working on landslide risk-mitigation planning. It can be also used as an introductory textbook for college students who wish to learn fundamental scientific achievements in the field of landslide disaster reduction.

Inhalt
Progress in Landslide Science.- Landslide Science as a New Scientific Discipline.- An Overview of Landslide Problems in the British Isles, with Reference to Geology, Geography and Conservation.- Considerations about the Mechanics of Slow Active Landslides in Clay.- Dynamics of Rapid Landslides.- Progress in Debris Flow Modeling.- Landslide Dynamics.- Undrained Stress-controlled Dynamic-loading Ring-shear Test to Simulate Initiation and Post-failure Motion of Landslides.- Shear Behavior and Shear Zone Structure of Granular Materials in Naturally Drained Ring Shear Tests.- Rockslides and Their Motion.- Residual Shear Strength of Tertiary Mudstone and Influencing Factors.- On Failure of Municipal Waste Landfill.- Experimental Study with Ring Shear Apparatus on the May 2004 Landslide-Debris Flow at Bettou-dani Valley, Haku-san Mountain, Japan.- On the Pore-pressure Generation and Movement of Rainfall-induced Landslides in Laboratory Flume Tests.- Ring Shear Tests on Clays of Fracture Zone Landslides and Clay Mineralogical Aspects.- Landslides Induced by a Combined Effect of Earthquake and Rainfall.- Landslide Experiments on Artificial and Natural Slopes.- Landslide Monitoring.- Enlargement of a Failed Area along a Sliding Surface.- Airborne LIDAR Data Measurement and Landform Classification Mapping in Tomari-no-tai Landslide Area, Shirakami Mountains, Japan.- Integration of Remote Sensing Techniques in Different Stages of Landslide Response.- Rock Deformation Monitoring at Cultural Heritage Sites in Slovakias.- Landslide Risk Assessment.- Extracting Necessary Pparameters from Real Landslide Mass for Mitigating Landslide Disaster.- Landslide Dams Formed by the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in Japan.- Shear Behavior of Clay in Slope for Pore Water Pressure Increase.-Static and Dynamic Analyses of Slopes by the FEM.- Debris Flows in the Vicinity of the Machu Picchu Village, Peru.- Engineering Geology and Cultural Heritage: the Conservation of Remaining Bamiyan Buddhas (Central Afghanistan).- Debris Flow Hazard Defense Magnitude Assessment with Numerical Simulation.