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Climate changes and Landslide Hazard

Landslides are a signifi cant threat to the critical infrastructures, and this hazard has two type of phenomena: in the fi rst case, the infrastructure is targeted by a sliding material, and in the second case is itself an integral part of the landslide. In both cases, the damage to the infrastructure may be large and accompanied by signifi cant losses of human life and recovery may be long and very expensive. Weather conditions, such as heavy rainfall, due to the increase of groundwater level and soil saturation are common triggers of landslides occurrence. It’s expected that the climate changes in the coming decades cause a signifi cant increase in precipitation, which will directly aff ect the increase in the number of active landslides. Th is paper provides an overview of the climate changes impact to the dangers caused by landslides. Th is work is the result of scientifi c research in the EU-CIRCLE project, fi nanced through the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union.

Climate changes, landslides, critical infrastructures, EU-CIRCLE project.

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