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Current Status of Landslide Guidelines Around the World

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The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) initiated a project in 2009 to develop national landslide guidelines and best practices as part of its natural hazard loss reduction effort. This project is part of the International Program on Landslides sponsored by the International Consortium on Landslides. A literature review was carried out as part of this project. More than 30 landslide guidelines from around the world were collected. This paper presents a brief review of these guidelines. The review will assist in the development of the GSC’s landslide guidelines, as well as aid professionals and other stakeholders who wish to learn more about or develop their own landslide guidelines.

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Notes

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    ISSMGE: International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering;

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    IAEG: International Association for Engineering Geology and the environment;

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    ISRM: International Society for Rock Mechanics.

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The authors would like to thank Wendy Sladen for her review and valuable comments on the manuscript.

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  1. Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1A 0E8

    Baolin Wang, Réjean Couture, Peter Bobrowsky & Andrée Blais-Stevens

  2. CN Rail, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Mario Ruel

  3. VanDine Geological Engineering Limited, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Doug VanDine

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  1. Geological Survey of Italy, ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmen, Rome, Italy

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  2. ICL - International Consortium on Landsl, Florence, Italy

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  3. Kyoto University Uji-Campus, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

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Wang, B., Ruel, M., Couture, R., VanDine, D., Bobrowsky, P., Blais-Stevens, A. (2013). Current Status of Landslide Guidelines Around the World. In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31313-4_35

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