ESPIn Landslide

Key Concepts

• Relationship between vegetation and soil properties to slope cohesion
• Relationship between cohesion and failure probability
• Factor of Safety and Susceptibility
• Application Question: How might wildfire impact slope stability?

Literature References

Landlab and associated models

• Strauch R, Istanbulluoglu E, Nudurupati SS, Bandaragoda C, Gasparini NM, Tucker GE (2018) A hydroclimatological approach to predicting regional landslide probability using Landlab. Earth Surf Dyn 6:49–75. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-49-2018

• Montgomery DR, Dietrich WE (1994) A physically based model for the topographic control on shallow landsliding. Water Resour Res 30:1153–1171. https://doi.org/10.1029/93WR02979

• Campforts B, Shobe CM, Steer P, Vanmaercke M, Lague D, Braun J (2020) HyLands 1.0: a hybrid landscape evolution model to simulate the impact of landslides and landslide-derived sediment on landscape evolution. Geosci Model Dev 13:3863–3886. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3863-2020

Study area description and soil properties

• Calvello M, Pecoraro G (2018) FraneItalia: a catalog of recent Italian landslides. Geoenvironmental Disasters 5:13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40677-018-0105-5

• Schwarz M, Preti F, Giadrossich F, Lehmann P, Or D (2010) Quantifying the role of vegetation in slope stability: A case study in Tuscany (Italy). Ecol Eng 36:285–291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.06.014

• Masi EB, Bicocchi G, Catani F (2020) Soil organic matter relationships with the geotechnical-hydrological parameters, mineralogy and vegetation cover of hillslope deposits in Tuscany (Italy). Bull Eng Geol Environ 79:4005–4020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-020-01819-6

• Masi EB, Segoni S, Tofani V (2021) Root Reinforcement in Slope Stability Models: A Review. Geosciences 11:212. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11050212

• Masi EB, Tofani V, Rossi G, Cuomo S, Wu W, Salciarini D, Caporali E, Catani F (2023) Effects of roots cohesion on regional distributed slope stability modelling. CATENA 222:106853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106853

• Conti P, Cornamusini G, Carmignani L (2020) An outline of the geology of the Northern Apennines (Italy), with geological map at 1:250,000 scale. Ital J Geosci 139:149–194. https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2019.25

• Conti P, Lazzarotto A (2004) Geology of Tuscany: evolution of the state-of-knowledge presented by geological maps and the new geological map of Tuscany, 1: 250,000 scale. ‘Regione Toscana’project Geol mapping, Spec vol 32nd IGC 25–50. https://www.pconti.net/doc/conti-lazzarotto.pdf

Landslide inventory of Tuscany area

• https://idrogeo.isprambiente.it/app/page/open-data

• https://idrogeo.isprambiente.it/app/iffi?

Credits:

This repository has been created by Ashanie Long-Reid (longrea@wwu.edu), Estefania Roldan-Nicolau (estefania.nicolau@ucalgary.ca), Sarah Williams (sarah.g.williams@vanderbilt.edu), Selina Davila Olivera (sdavilao@uoregon.edu) and Sharad Kumar Gupta (sharadgupta@tauex.tau.ac.il) as part of Earth Surface Project Institute (ESPIn) 2023 held at University of Colorado Boulder, USA during May 08 - 15, 2023. All the team members have contributed equally for developing this repository.

Acknowledgements:

We would like to thank ESPIn 2023 mentors and advisors for helping us at each stage of this project. We have also used the code created by Tian Gan. We want to thank her for solving our queries.