Landslide Risk Management comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 31 to June 3, 2005. The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures, prepared by teams of authors selected for their experience in specific topics assigned to them by the JTC-1 Committee. The second part is a selection of papers submitted to the conference, most of which serve as case-history illustrations of projects on landslide risk management. This reference work presents the current status of landslide risk management as viewed by experts from around the world. A framework for landslide risk management and management; Hazard charakterization and quantification; Probabilistic stability analyses for individual slopes in soil and rock; Estimating landslide motion mechanism, travel distance and velocity; Estimating temporal and spatial variability and vulnerabiblity; Risk assessment and management; Landslide hazard and ris zoning for urban planning and development; Landslide risk assessment for individual facilities; Landslide risk management in forest practices; Risk assessment for submarine slides; Risk assessment for very large natural rock slopes; Landslide risk assessment in Canada; a review of recent developments; The analyses of global landslide risk through the creation of a database of worldwide landslide fatalities; The role magnitude-frequency relations in regional landslide risk analysis; Evaluation of risk to the population posed by natural hazards in Italy; Business decision-making and utiligy economnics of large landslides within national forest; Risky business - Development and implementation of a national landslide risk management system; A preliminary landslide risk assessment of road network in mointains region of Nepal; Landslide hazard reduction strategy and action in China; Recent landslide disasters in China and lessons learned for landslide risk management. Keywords: landslide|risk managment|landslide hazard analysis|mass-wasting|
