PEA700 Disasters Associated with Mass Movements

SUBJECT: PEA700 Disasters Associated with Mass Movements

WORKLOAD : 45 class hours

PROFESSOR: Marcos Barreto de Mendonça

SUMMARY:

  • Mass movements in the context of socio-environmental disasters.
  • Mass movements: typology, slope stability concepts, conditioning and triggering factors, signs of instability, monitoring.
  • Concept of susceptibility, vulnerability, and risk associated with mass movements.
  • Perception of risk associated with mass movements.
  • Susceptibility and risk mapping: types and methodologies.
  • Structural actions for the reduction of disasters associated with mass movements.
  • Non-structural actions for the reduction of disasters associated with mass movements – Municipal Risk Reduction Plans

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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  • Brasil: Ministério das Cidades, 2006. Prevenção de Riscos de Deslizamentos em Encostas: Guia para Elaboração de Políticas Municipais. Celso Santos Carvalho e Thiago Galvão, organizadores. Brasília: Ministério das Cidades; Cities Alliance. 
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  • Mendonca, M. B.; Gullo, F.T. 2020. Landslide risk perception survey in Angra dos Reis (Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil): A contribution to support planning of non structural measures. Land Use Policy, 91, 104415, 2020.