Review of The Story of Vaiont Told by the Geologist Who Discovered the Landslide. E. Semenda, K-Flash Publisher, Ferarra, 205 pp., €28.00, ISBN 978-88-89288-02-3) Reviewed for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 11: 485–486.
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A new book "GIS Open Source" (italian language) was published by Ivan Marchesini, a member of the IRPI team, and some co-authors.
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday.
Nasce POLARIS, il sito web sul rischio geo-idrologico in Italia:
Mihai Niculita and Andrei Adrian (Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geology, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza from Iași) visit our institute for a three months period starting the 1st March 2015.
Un articolo dell'Almanacco della Scienza CNR sulla vicenda di Cavallerizzo.
Parise M., Iovine G. R., Reichenbach P., Guzzetti F., editors (2012) Landslides: forecasting, hazard evaluation and risk mitigation. Natural Hazards, Vol. 61: 1–4, doi: 10.1007/s11069-011-9991-5.
Authors: Chiara Del Ventisette *, Andrea Ciampalini, Michele Manunta, Fabiana Calò, Luca Paglia, Francesca Ardizzone, Alessandro Mondini, Paola Reichenbach, Mateos, Silvia Bianchini, Inmaculada Garcia, Balázs Füsi, Zsuzsa Villő Deák, Károly Rádi, Marek Graniczny, Zbigniew Kowalski, Anna Piatkowska, Maria Surala, Hugo Retzo, Tazio Strozzi, Davide Colombo, Oscar Mora, c Sánchez, Gerardo Herrera, Sandro Moretti, Nicola Casagli, Fausto Guzzetti.
The digital book "Landslide Hazard and Risk Assessment: Concepts, Methods and Tools for the Detection and Mapping of Landslides, for Landslide Susceptibility Zonation and Hazard Assessment, and for Landslide Risk Evaluation", by Fausto Guzzetti, is available for free download from Apple iBooks and the iTunes Store. This is the iBook version of Guzzetti's PhD Thesis at the University of Bonn, Germany, available as pdf file(s) at http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2006/0817/0817.htm and at http://geomorphology.irpi.cnr.it/Members/fausto/PhD-dissertation.
With a final conference held at the Belgium Royal Museum of Natural Sciences, in Brussels, participated by representatives of national geological surveys in Europe, and a review meeting held at the Research Executive Agency (REA), also in Bruxelles, we closed successfully the EC FP7 project LAMPRE, coordinated by our Institute.
Comments by Dave Petley (Professor at Durham University, United Kingdom) on AGU oral session in landslide characterisation and forecasting (NH11B).
Mondini A.C., Chang K.-T., Yin H.-Y. (2011) Combining multiple change detection indices for mapping landslides triggered by typhoons. Geomorphology, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.021.
Book review by Guzzetti F. of "Geomorphological hazards and disaster prevention", edited by Alcántara-Ayala, I. and Goudie, Cambridge University Press, published in Progress in Physical Geography, Vol. 35: 415-417, doi:10.1177/0309780521402553.
A short paper presenting the story of the FP7 DORIS project coordinated by our group has been published in the Horizon 2020 website, in the Projects Stories section.
Guzzetti F. (2009) Palaeoseismology: historical and prehistorical records of earthquake ground effects for seismic hazard assessment. Edited by Klaus Reicherter, Alessandro M. Michetti, and Pablo G. Silva, The Geological Society, London, Geological Society Special Publication No. 316, 332 pages, ISBN-10 1-86239-276-5, ISBN-13 978-1-86239-276-2, (hardback). Reviewed for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 9: 6, 1929-1930.