1 Aims and overview - slopes, geology and materials1.1 Introduction1.2 Overview of recent developments and trends1.2.1 Increasing frequency and impact of disasters from slope failures and landslides1.2.2 Climate change, global warming and sea level rise1.2.3 Built slopes - lesso…
Usually geomorphology, structural geology and engineering geology provide descriptions of slope instability in quite distinctive ways. This new research is based on combined approaches to providing an integrated view of the operative slope processes. 'Slope Tectonics' is the ter…