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Book review |
TRL Limited, Scotland
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This volume comprises five main sections: Landslide Research, Landslide Sites, Rockfall Sites, Landslide Management and Rockfall Management. The sections comprise six, nine, five, six and five papers respectively.
The section on landslide research begins with a paper that essentially traces the history of, and motivation for, landslide research in North Wales. This is a useful paper, in particular highlighting the key events leading to particular investigations in North Wales and the strong interest in this subject in the region. Both the book and this particular paper remain focussed on North Wales. The other papers in this section consider the design and construction of a trial embankment on a landslip, geophysical applications, and notes on landslide dams. This section also includes two case study papers that, at first, seem to fit better into the sections on landslide and rockfall sites. However, these are much more extensive expositions than are to be found in the later two sections and deal with recent investigations and so their inclusion here seems appropriate.
The sections on landslide sites and rockfall sites present short papers in a very similar style to that of Landslide News. This brevity allows papers to be included to cover a wide range of events. The sections on landslide and rockfall management follow a similar style. However, the papers included therein are, in general, more about the remediation of individual sites than the management of their impacts on, and their interaction with, for example, infrastructure, as the title may seem to
