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GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping for Land Use Planning and Risk Assessment
Content Provider | MDPI |
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Author | Roccati, Anna Paliaga, Guido Luino, Fabio Faccini, Francesco Turconi, Laura |
Copyright Year | 2021 |
Description | Landslide susceptibility mapping is essential for a suitable land use managing and risk assessment. In this work a GIS-based approach has been proposed to map landslide susceptibility in the Portofino promontory, a Mediterranean area that is periodically hit by intense rain events that induce often shallow landslides. Based on over 110 years landslides inventory and experts’ judgements, a semi-quantitative analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method has been applied to assess the role of nine landslide conditioning factors, which include both natural and anthropogenic elements. A separated subset of landslide data has been used to validate the map. Our findings reveal that areas where possible future landslides may occur are larger than those identified in the actual official map adopted in land use and risk management. The way the new map has been compiled seems more oriented towards the possible future landslide scenario, rather than weighting with higher importance the existing landslides as in the current model. The paper provides a useful decision support tool to implement risk mitigation strategies and to better apply land use planning. Allowing to modify factors in order to local features, the proposed methodology may be adopted in different conditions or geographical context featured by rainfall induced landslide risk. |
Starting Page | 162 |
e-ISSN | 2073445X |
DOI | 10.3390/land10020162 |
Journal | Land |
Issue Number | 2 |
Volume Number | 10 |
Language | English |
Publisher | MDPI |
Publisher Date | 2021-02-05 |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | Land Remote Sensing Shallow Landslides Analytic Hierarchy Process (ahp) Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Land Planning Risk Assessment Ligurian Coast Mediterranean Area |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Article |