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SCOTTISH ROAD NETWORK LANDSLIDES STUDY SUMMARY REPORT

DescriptionThis report explains what landslides are, how they can be assessed in terms of the hazards they create and the exposure to road users, identifies areas of high hazard that currently exist in scotland and makes recommendations as to how the future detailed assessment of the scottish road network could be undertaken and the management approaches which could be adopted to mitigate the effects.
ISBN0-7559-4605-
Official Print Publication Date
Website Publication DateJune 14, 2005

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ISBN 0 7559 4605 2

M G Winter (TRL Limited), F Macgregor and L Shackman (Scottish Executive)

The views expressed in this report are those of the Editors and Authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Department or Scottish Ministers.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

WORKING GROUP MEMBERS AND REPORT CONTRIBUTORS

1 INTRODUCTION

2 BACKGROUND
2.1 Landslides
2.2 Recent Debris Flows
2.3 Climatic Issues
2.4 Relevant Information Sources

3 PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
3.1 Hazard Assessment
3.2 Hazard Ranking
3.3 Detailed Assessment Factors

4 HIGH HAZARD AREAS AND EARLY OPPORTUNITIES

5 THE WAY FORWARD
5.1 Early Opportunities
5.2 Study 1, Part 2

REFERENCES

The Scottish Executive and Astron would like to point out that some of the images in this document are of a poorer quality than would normally appear in their documents. This is because some photographs were taken on digital cameras, mobile phone cameras and/or in difficult conditions. In addition, some of the graphs and images used have been necessarily downloaded from websites at low resolutions which are of a poor reproductive quality when printed.

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