The influences of geological and land use settings on shallow landslides triggered by an intense rainfall event in a coastal terraced environment

Cevasco, Andrea; Pepe, Giacomo; Brandolini, Pierluigi

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“…In the cases of high level of maintenance, the wall of terraces responds with greater hydraulic conductibility and drains correctly the above run-off. We have noticed that a higher landslides density occurred in correspondence of cultivated terraced (Agricultural areas, Vineyard, olive groves and greenhouses), characterized by intermediate or progressive drop of wall maintenance, as already reported by Cevasco et al (2013Cevasco et al ( , 2014. Instead, high-magnitude landslides seemed to be more concentrated in forest and semi-natural areas, in which a complete abandonment of terraces has been noticed.…”

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“…Then, land features were statistically tested against landslide crown area with the purpose of pointing out potential relationships between land use and landslides occurrence. In fact, when analysing rainfall-induced landslides in a deeply human-modified landscape, its setting constitutes an important element in determining its hydrological response (Cevasco et al 2014;Camera et al 2015;Galve et al 2015).…”

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“…The landscape, almost completely occupied by hills and mountains with steep slopes, has been subjected to hundreds of years of human management, primarily represented by anthropic terraces, and later by road and urban area developments. Many authors analysed the influence of land use setting on rainfall-induced landslides occurrence during intense rainfall event in Liguria region (Cevasco et al 2013(Cevasco et al , 2014Galve et al 2015;Brandolini et al 2017). Most of them focused on restricted areas affected by rainfall-induced landslides.…”

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“…In Liguria region (northwestern Italy), man-made intervention represented noteworthy morphogenetic impact. The acknowledgments of the human effect were achieved already in the Middle Ages, when anthropic terraces have been principally employed for cultivation (Canuti et al 2004;Cevasco et al 2014;Tarolli et al 2014). The employment of such structures was prolonged over time, recording an overlapping with the accelerating rate of human intervention during the following century, principally represented by urban areas and road network development.…”

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Relationship between man-made environment and slope stability: the case of 2014 rainfall events in the terraced landscape of the Liguria region (northwestern Italy)

Giordan

Cignetti

Baldo

2017

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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In the autumn of 2014, a series of rainfall events affected several sectors of the Liguria region, triggering many shallow landslides and causing three casualties and severe structural damages. The most intensely unstable area covered 385 km 2 , in which more than 1600 landslides have been identified. After these events, an airborne Light Detection and Ranging survey was carried out. The survey yielded a high-resolution digital terrain model (DTM) and aerial images that provided a means of identifying and mapping all the occurred landslides. The distribution analysis of slope instabilities highlighted the link with various human activities. In fact, the majority of the detected landslides occurred in man-modified areas. Geospatial and statistical analyses provided the identification of three main anthropic factors: terraces, their level of maintenance and road network. Moreover, they quantified their role in landslide triggering. These factors were not analysed as separate elements, but as a continuous process, overlapping in time, in man-made influence on landscape. The identification of such factors is a key element for a correct behaviour characterization of this landscape towards extreme flash floods events.

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Relationship between man-made environment and slope stability: the case of 2014 rainfall events in the terraced landscape of the Liguria region (northwestern Italy)

Giordan

Cignetti

Baldo

2017

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“…Alpe Jaspers Fm., Internal Ligurides), serpentinites and gabbros (Internal Ligurides) outcrop, respectively (Abbate 1969;Regione Liguria, 2005). On slopes, the sedimentary bedrock is covered by a thin (0.5-2.5 m) eluvial-colluvial soil cover, usually characterized by mixtures of gravel and sand with minor components of silt and clay (Cevasco et al 2013b(Cevasco et al , 2014; instead, the ophiolitic slopes often lack of soil mantle or it is very thin . The shallow soils and debris covers were largely reworked in the past centuries by humans for the building of terraces.…”

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Shallow landslide initiation on terraced slopes: inferences from a physically based approach

Schilirò

Cevasco

Esposito

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In the last years, great efforts have been made to improve the assessment of the temporal and spatial occurrence of rainfall-induced shallow landslides. Therefore, in this paper we used a physically based stability model (TRIGRS) in order to reproduce the landslide event occurred in the Monterosso catchment (Cinque Terre, Eastern Liguria, Italy) on 25 October 2011. The input parameters of the numerical model have been evaluated taking into account the land-use setting and paying specific attention to the evaluation of the spatial variation of soil thickness on terraced areas. The resulting safety factor maps have been compared with the inventory map of the landslides triggered during the event. The simulation results, which have been obtained also considering four different spatial resolutions of the digital terrain model, emphasize the influence of land use in shallow landslide occurrence and indicate the importance of a realistic spatial variation of soil thickness to enhance the reliability of the model. Finally, different triggering scenarios have been defined using hourly rainfall values statistically derived from historical data. The results indicate the proneness of the area to shallow landsliding, given that rainfall events with a relatively low return period (e.g. 25 years) can trigger numerous slope failures.

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Response of Terraced Slopes to a Very Intense Rainfall Event and Relationships with Land Abandonment: A Case Study from Cinque Terre (Italy)

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Agricultural terraces represent one of the best ways to prevent land degradation in hilly and mountainous landscapes. However, it is widely recognized that terraced slopes are threatened by agricultural land abandonment. In the literature, very few studies have quantitatively examined the influence of agricultural abandonment on the stability of terraced slopes. The goal of this research is to investigate the relationships between landslide magnitude and land use conditions of agricultural terraced slopes. In particular, Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) elevation data, coupled with aerial photo interpretation, were used for the computation of shallow landslide mobilized volumes on terraced slopes affected by an intense rainfall event. We performed the analysis within the Vernazza basin, a small Mediterranean coastal catchment located in the “Cinque Terre” area (Liguria, northwestern Italy), comparing pre‐event and post‐event LiDAR datasets. The results revealed that abandoned terraced slopes have been affected by a higher amount of mobilized debris volumes than still‐cultivated terraces. Furthermore, terraces abandoned for a short time (less than 25–30 years) resulted in the most hazardous land use class, showing erosion rates that were approximately 2 and 3 times higher than terraced slopes abandoned a long time ago (more than 25–30 years) and still‐cultivated terraces, respectively. These findings highlight that land abandonment and agricultural mismanagement can intensify the magnitude of rainfall‐induced shallow landslides. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The influences of geological and land use settings on shallow landslides triggered by an intense rainfall event in a coastal terraced environment

Cited by 118 publications

References 47 publications

Relationship between man-made environment and slope stability: the case of 2014 rainfall events in the terraced landscape of the Liguria region (northwestern Italy)

Relationship between man-made environment and slope stability: the case of 2014 rainfall events in the terraced landscape of the Liguria region (northwestern Italy)

Shallow landslide initiation on terraced slopes: inferences from a physically based approach

Response of Terraced Slopes to a Very Intense Rainfall Event and Relationships with Land Abandonment: A Case Study from Cinque Terre (Italy)

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