Recommendations for the quantitative analysis of landslide risk

Jordi Corominas1, C.J. van Westen2, Paolo Frattini3, Leonardo Cascini4, Jean‐Philippe Malet5, Stavroula Fotopoulou6, Filippo Catani7, Miet Van Den Eeckhaut8, Olga Mavrouli1, Federico Agliardi3, Kyriazis Pitilakis6, M G Winter9, Manuel Pastor10, Settimio Ferlisi4, Veronica Tofani7, Javier Hervás8, Jessica Smith11
1Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
2Faculty of Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
3Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
4Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
5Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
6Research Unit of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece
7Department of Earth Sciences, University of Firenze, Florence, Italy
8Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
9Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), Edinburgh, UK
10ETS Ingenieros de Caminos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
11Golder Associates (formerly TRL), Bourne End, UK

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