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TXT-tool 4.084-1.2: Landslide Vulnerability Assessment: A Case Study of Backan Town, Northeast Vietnam

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Intensive excavation of slopes for land use and infrastructure development has taken place in Backan town. Consequently, landslides are very frequent in rainstorms, threatening the safety of residents at home and on roads. In the 132 km2 area of Backan town, significant landslide hazards are distributed in distinct strips, zones and points as a result of geological setting, weathering crust, soil and rock properties, topography and excavation for development. This study assesses the relative risk from landslides in Backan town to residents and transportation infrastructure. Vulnerable elements and resilience factors are investigated by field survey and questionnaires. The analyses of natural and social conditions in the GIS platform of Arc-GIS® enable a zonation of relative risk from landslide of residents and transportation infrastructure at 4 levels: low; medium; high and very high.

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  1. VNU University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), 334 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Do Minh Duc, Mai Trong Nhuan, Tran Dang Quy & Tran Manh Lieu

  2. International Consortium on Landslides, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan

    Do Minh Duc

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  1. International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  2. Civil and Environmental Engineering, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA

    Binod Tiwari

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ko-Fei Liu

  4. GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Mauri McSaveney

  5. Geodynamics Research Center—branch of JSC “Hydroproject Institute”, Moscow, Russia

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Duc, D.M., Nhuan, M.T., Quy, T.D., Lieu, T.M. (2018). TXT-tool 4.084-1.2: Landslide Vulnerability Assessment: A Case Study of Backan Town, Northeast Vietnam. In: Sassa, K., Tiwari, B., Liu, KF., McSaveney, M., Strom, A., Setiawan, H. (eds) Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57777-7_31

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