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2 Research Priorities in Landslide Science
Pages 26-30

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... The National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy (Spiker and Gori, 2000) proposes that the USGS should lead a research program directed at developing a predictive understanding of landslide processes and triggering mechanisms.
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... The committee concurs that an expanded research effort that would contribute to an improved understanding of landslide processes and their triggering is an essential component of a national landslide hazards mitigation program. However, such research activities should be prioritized to address those areas of landslide science with the highest payoff potential namely, debris flow, bedrock slide, and submarine landslide mechanisms (as outlined in section 1.6~.
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... To answer these questions, a comprehensive research program should be designed to produce improvements in the following: · in situ characterization, · laboratory characterization, · advances in formulating geomechanical and geohydrological models, · advances in kinematic modeling, and · field studies at sites to facilitate in situ characterization and model validation. Many important questions related to landslide processes can be addressed only by a scientific research program based at a number of
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... Although priority should be given to debris flow and weak bedrock slide field sites, and to submarine slide sites where possible, other types of slides should not be excluded if a suitable opportunity is available. In the past, landslide activities within the USGS have focused primarily on field-based hazard mapping and assessment.
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... Although research into the science of landslide processes, in accordance with the priorities based on payoff potential outlined here, should be undertaken as an important component of a comprehensive national landslide hazards mitigation strategy, the committee emphasizes that such research should be carried out in concert with other critically important research activities into new technologies for mapping and monitoring; new mitigation approaches; the intermixed physical science and social science issues related to public awareness, understanding, and professional education and capacity building; and particularly, the application of risk analysis techniques to guide mitigation decisions described in the following chapters.
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  • debris flow

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  • mitigation strategy
  • landslide mechanisms
  • ground deformation
  • situ characterization

  • slope failure
  • failure processes
  • field sites
  • payoff potential
  • bedrock slide

  • hazard mitigation
  • landslide types
  • mountainous regions
  • potential namely
  • major stakeholder

  • predictive understanding
  • risk analysis
  • program based
  • highway administration
  • flow mechanics

  • civil engineering
  • slide field
  • devastating effects
  • questions related
  • essential requirement


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