Landslide Dams Around the World

This book provides professionals, researchers and students alike with a comprehensive understanding of the global distribution of landslide dams, their types, frequencies, and regional to national challenges in their research and mitigation. Landslides blocking river valleys and causing lakes to form requires favourable topographic factors and landslide as well as river dynamics. Hence, each region faces unique challenges in landslide dam research and mitigation. Reporting from around the world, each chapter addresses a different geographic region, presents its landslide dam inventory and analyses the data under the aspects of the specific geological-hydrogeological-metereological conditions, data quality and biases, involved landslide types, and provides a brief survey of the policies surrounding dam mitigation. The regional chapters are accompanied by a new data-collection protocol, definition of terminology, and a call for guidelines for science-informed practice. It is a valuable reference work for anyone interested in landslide dams.