Reducing Losses from Landsliding in the United States

摘要

The Committee on Ground Failure Hazards is charged to (1) survey ongoing and engineering research relating to landslides, subsidence, and other ground failure hazards, (2) define nationwide research needs and research priorities, (3) publish accounts of ongoing research and recent research results, and (4) foster the exchange of information within the United States and abroad. In this, its first report, the committee discusses the context in which landslide research is carried out and the gaps that now exist, in the United States, between the conduct of landslide research and the successful reduction of landslide losses.