List of Contributors.<br> <br> Preface.<br> <br> 1. Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues, Concepts, and Approach(M. J. Crozier and T. Glade).<br> <br> Part I: Conceptual Models in Approaching LandslideRisk.<br> <br> 2. The nature of landslide hazard impact (T. Glade & M.Crozier).<br> <br> 3. A review of scale dependency in landslide hazard and risk(T. Glade & M. Crozier).<br> <br> 4. Systematic procedures of landslide-hazard mapping for riskassessment using spatial prediction models (Chang-Jo F. Chung& Andrea G. Fabbri).<br> <br> 5.Vulnerability to landslides (David Alexander).<br> <br> Part II: Evaluation of Risk.<br> <br> 6. Landslide risk perception, knowledge, and associated riskmanagement: Case studies and general lessons from Glacier NationalPark, Montana, USA (David R. Butler & Lisa M.DeChano).<br> <br> 7. Cultural consideration in landslide risk perception (GarthHarmsworth & Bill Raynor).<br> <br> 8 Reply of insurance industry to landslide risk (Hans-LeoPaus).<br> <br> 9. The role of administrative bodies in landslide riskassessment (Kurt Hollenstein).<br> <br> 10. Addressing landslide hazards: Towards a knowledge managementperspective (S. Michaels).<br> <br> Part III: Management of Landslide Risk.<br> <br> 11. Management frameworks for landslide hazard and risk: issuesand options (M. J. Crozier).<br> <br> 12. Reducing landslide hazards and risk in the United States:The role of the U. S. Geological Survey (G. F. Wieczorek, P. L.Gori & L. M. Highland).<br> <br> 13. Basic data and decision support for landslide management: Aconceptual framework (Walter Pfluegner).<br> <br> 14. Instability management from policy to practice (R.McInnes).<br> <br> 15. Geomorphologic mapping to assess landslide risk: concepts,methods and applications in the Umbria Region of central Italy(Paola Reichenbach, Mirco Galli, Mauro Cardinali, FaustoGuzzetti & Francesca Ardizzone).<br> <br> 16. Remote sensing of landslides (Vern Singhroy).<br> <br> 17. The rise and fall of a debris-flow warning system for theSan Francisco Bay Region, California (Raymond C.Wilson).<br> <br> 18. Reforestation schemes to manage regional landslide risk(Chris Phillips & Michael Marden).<br> <br> 19. Geotechnical structures for landslide risk reduction(Edward Nicholas Bromhead).<br> <br> Part IV: 'End-to-End Solutions' for LandslideRisk Assessment.<br> <br> 20. Towards the development of a landslide risk assessment forrural roads in Nepal (D. Petley, G. J. Hearn & A.Hart).<br> <br> 21. Quantitative landslide risk assessment of Cairns, Australia(Marion Michael-Leiba, Fred Baynes, Greg Scott & KenGranger).<br> <br> 22. The story of quantified risk and its place in slope safetypolicy in Hong Kong (A. W. Malone).<br> <br> 23. Rockfall risk management in high density urban areas. TheAndorran experience (Ramon Copons, Joan Manuel Vilaplana, JordiCorominas, Joan Altimir & Jordi Amigo).<br> <br> 24. Landslide risk assessment in Italy (MarinoSorriso-Valvo).<br> <br> 25. An initial approach to identifying slope stability controlsin southern Java and to providing community-based landslide warninginformation (D. Karnawati, I. Ibriam, M. G. Anderson, E. A.Holcombe, G. T. Mummery, J-P. Renaud & Y. Wang).<br> <br> Part V: Synopsis.<br> <br> 26. Landslide hazard and risk - concluding comment andperspectives (T. Glade & M. Crozier).<br> <br> Glossary.<br> <br> Thematic Index.<br> <br> Locations/regions.