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Landslide Databases as Tools for Integrated Assessment of Landslide Risk

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Landslide databases are valuable sources of information for research on landslides, not only in terms of their causes, types, and processes (e.g., Pelletier et al. 1997; Guzzetti et al. 2009; Rossi et al. 2010; Tonini et al. 2013; Hurst et al. 2013), but also the impacts and risks associated with them (e.g., Guzzetti et al. 2003; Hilker et al. 2009; Van Den Eeckhaut et al. 2010; Klose et al. 2014a). A landslide database, often also referred to as landslide inventory, is a systematic collection of information on past landslides (Hervás 2013). Besides some few event-based inventories, for example, those for earthquakes (e.g., Gorum et al. 2011) or rainfall events (e.g., Tsai et al. 2010), most landslide databases today are of historical nature, recording landslides at local to global scale over time (e.g., Malamud et al. 2004; Galli et al. 2008; Guzzetti et al. 2012).

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Klose, M. (2015). Landslide Databases—State of Research and the Case of Germany. In: Landslide Databases as Tools for Integrated Assessment of Landslide Risk. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20403-1_2

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