Landslides Runout: Recent Perspectives and Advances

Dear Colleagues,

Many regions worldwide are coping with climatic global change, which is increasing the occurrence of extreme hydro-meteorological events such as landslides. These phenomena are causing significant damage to the land and the environment, coupled sometimes with a general loss of soil layers that are rich in organic matter and nutrients fundamental for agricultural activities.

A significant part of the damage induced by slope instabilities is the delivery of the materials mobilized from a landslide triggering zone, which constitute the runout part of a slope failure. Runout also influences the degree of vulnerability and risk of infrastructures and buildings which are located downslope of the triggering area.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to provide insights about the most recent and innovative methodologies and models to measure or predict the runout of a landslide, including also the integration of runout features on the estimation of susceptibility, hazard and risk scenarios towards landslides.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• Techniques and methodologies for measuring the runout of sediments mobilized by a landslide;
• Models for the estimation of landslide runout at different scales;
• Impact of landslide runout on the estimation of landslides hazard, vulnerability and risk;
• Methodologies for creating integrated models and maps between the prediction of landslide triggering zones and of runout features.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Massimiliano Bordoni
Dr. Stella Maris Moreiras
Dr. Roberto J. Marin
Guest Editors

Dr. Alessia Giarola
Guest Editor Assistant

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• landslides
• runout
• landslides hazard
• landslides risk
• remote sensing