Effects of climate change on shallow landslides in a small coastal catchment in southern Italy

In different areas of the world, shallow landslides represent a remarkable hazard inducing fatalities and economic damages. Then, the evaluation about potential variation in frequency of such hazard under the effect of climate changes should be a priority for defining reliable adaptation measurement...

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Published in:Landslides 2017-06, Vol.14 (3), p.1043-1055
Main Authors: Ciervo, F., Rianna, G., Mercogliano, P., Papa, M. N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Agriculture
Catchment area
Civil Engineering
Climate change
Climate effects
Climate models
Damage assessment
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Evaluation
Frameworks
Frequency variation
Geography
Geological hazards
Heavy rainfall
Landslides
Landslides & mudslides
Natural Hazards
Original Paper
Precipitation patterns
Rain
Rainfall
Slope stability
Stability analysis
Warning systems
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Summary:In different areas of the world, shallow landslides represent a remarkable hazard inducing fatalities and economic damages. Then, the evaluation about potential variation in frequency of such hazard under the effect of climate changes should be a priority for defining reliable adaptation measurements. Unfortunately, current performances of climate models on sub-daily scales, relevant for heavy rainfall events triggering shallow landslides, are not reliable enough to be used directly for performing slope stability analysis. In an attempt to overcome the constrains by gap in time resolution between climate and hazard models, the paper presents an integrated suitable approach for estimating future variations in shallow landslide hazard and managing the uncertainties associated with climate and sub-daily downscaling models. The approach is tested on a small basin on Amalfi coast (southern Italy). Basing on available basin scale critical rainfall thresholds, the paper outlines how the projected changes in precipitation patterns could affect local slope stability magnitude scenarios with different relevances as effect of investigated time horizon and concentration scenario. The paper concludes with qualitative evaluations on the future effectiveness of the local operative warning system in a climate change framework.
ISSN:1612-510X
1612-5118
DOI:10.1007/s10346-016-0743-1