Present Trends in Landsliding Control
Present Trends in Landsliding Control
ABSTRACT
The efficient management of the natural disaster is a base concept for the long term
development of all societies. Once the present problems related to landslides are defined as
part of the natural disaster issue, new approaches and methods are needed that will
simultaneously allow: the improvement of prognosis related to the place, time and
characteristics of these natural phenomena, creating scenarios concerning the optimum
strategies to adopt when such a disaster is triggered, as well as the adoption of post-disaster
strategies in order to reduce the damages and re-install the normality within the community.
The paper presents elements that define such methods based on geo-sciences and bring to
attention a sum of experiences related to the field of landslide management with interventions
on reducing the effects on society at large.
Keywords: landslide management, natural disaster, prognosis, post-disaster strategies.
Figure 1. A dynamical perspective of risk to landslides towards of time elapse for such events
In the most general perspective, factors that increase or reduce vulnerability to landslide in a
certain area can be grouped as in table 1.
as the capacity of individuals or communities to withstand the impact of the event. Thus,
resistance is related to the capacity of the system to remain unchanged for an interval of time
after the event/landslide manifested itself. After that interval of time, the system usually
undergoes changes as the event happened.
Resilience is generally defined as the ability to cope with or adapt to the hazard in question
via preparedness and spontaneous adaptations once the event has manifested itself. Thus,
resilience, in contrast to resistance, is the related to the capacity of the system to recover to its
state prior to the disaster.
Consequently, vulnerability would continue to be defined as the combination of the damage
potential, resilience and resistance [2]. A very important issue is related to the fact that
different perceptions of vulnerabilities lead to different approaches on how to handle them.
To introduce monitoring and warning systems in the area of risk on a permanent or temporary basis
and can be regarded as measures to reduce consequences as well [4];
To transfer, compensate, or share the risk, involving insurance companies;
All the above mentioned options should be regarded via their relative costs and benefits. Combinations
of options may also be appropriate to consider, especially since large reductions of risk may be
achieved.
A sound land control is also likely to include an emergency plan that will consist of a sequence of
steps to follow once warning signs indicate the beginning of a new instability phase [5]. In this case it
is relevant to establish the different warning levels and depending on them to set a hierarchy for
dealing with infrastructure and institutions that will remain in use during the event.
4. CONCLUSIONS
The landslide control is aimed to generate land value on a safe based system from a potential
disaster risk. The local/regional/national authorities need corresponding regulations to issue
land use decisions based on land control guides.
Emergency situations need coping capacities to deal with the event when is triggered.
Development of coping capacities is the task of policy makers to include them as investments
on the long term development of the society itself to develop resistance and resilience
capabilities.
The national guides to create risk and hazard zoning related to landslides represent
instruments that complete to a certain extent the necessary tools to implement the landslide
control in Romania. Extensive research is focused to contribute with new approaches related
to both landslide probability assessment as well as stabilization measures effective during and
post-event.
TENDINE ACTUALE N COMBATEREA ALUNECRILOR DE TEREN
Managementul eficient al dezastrelor naturale este un concept care st la baza dezvoltrii pe
termen lung a oricrei societi. Odat definit problematica actual a alunecrilor de teren ca
parte component a dezastrelor naturale, se impune identificarea unor metode care s permit
simultan: mbuntirea prognozelor privind locul, momentul i caracteristicile acestor
fenomene naturale, realizarea de scenarii privind strategiile de adoptat n momentul
declanrii dezastrului, precum i adoptarea unor strategii aplicabile dup dezastru, n vederea
diminurii pagubelor i revenirii la starea normal. Lucrarea prezint elemente care definesc
aceste metode prin prisma geo-tiinelor i aduc n atenie experiene acumulate n domeniul
managementului alunecrilor de teren cu intervenii asupra reducerii efectelor acestora asupra
societii n ansamblu.
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AUTHORS INFORMATION
Assoc.prof.dr.eng. Irina Lungu ([email protected]), graduate of the Technical
University of Iasi, Civil Engineering Faculty, her primary research interests are soil-structure
interaction for pile foundations, soil improvement by surface and deep compaction, slope
management. She is a member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering, (ISSMGE) -1991, International Tunneling Association (ITA)
1993, Romanian Association for Underground Structures (ART) - 1993, Romanian Society
for Geotechnics and Foundations (SRGF) 1996 board member.
Prof.univ.dr.eng. Nicolae Boti ([email protected]) is consultant professor of geotechnical
and foundation engineering at the Technical University Gh. Asachi Iasi, Faculty of Civil
Engineering. His interests are: behavior of structures on active clays and collapsible soils, soil
improvement by surface compaction, design methods for underground structures. He is
member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering,
ISSMGE (1991), International Tunneling Association (ITA) 1993, Romanian Association
for Underground Structures (ART) - 1993 - board member and former president, Romanian
Society for Geotechnics and Foundations (SRGF) 1996 board member; titular member of
the Romanian Association of Scientists (AOS) 1985.
Prof.univ.dr.eng. Anghel Stanciu ([email protected]) is professor of geotechnical
engineering and foundation at the Technical University Gh. Asachi of Iai, Civil
Engineering Faculty. His primary research interests are: reinforced soil solutions for
transportation infrastructure, new approaches in slope stability analysis, design methods for
underground structures. He is member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) - 1991, International Tunneling Association (ITA)
1993, Romanian Association for Underground Structures (ART) - 1993 - board member,
Romanian Society for Geotechnics and Foundations (SRGF) 1996 board member; titular
member of the Romanian Association of Scientists (AOS) - 1985; full member of the
Romanian Academy of Agricultural and Forest Sciences Gh. I. Sisesti 2002.
Drd.eng. Oana Donciu ([email protected]) is a phD student, graduate of the Technical
University Gh. Asachi of Iai, Civil Engineering Faculty, her studies concern reinforced
soil structures. She is member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), International Tunneling Association (ITA), Romanian
Society for Geotechnics and Foundations (SRGF), Romanian Association for Underground
Structures (ART).