Abstract:
Approaching landslide research through systems thinking introduces a radically different agenda. The focus in the way landslides exchange energy and entropy with their environment.. Landslide systems exhibit two types of behaviour. Most landslide systems accumulate entropy and so devolve to extinction. However, initially, all landslides self-create as (entropy dissipating) evolving systems “Chronic” landslides, which sustain this condition, envolve through several seasons becoming better integrated and more independent of environmental controls. Correlations analyses of landslide occurrence and dimension demonstrate that the conditions, which foster landslide emergence, are not the same as those, which govern landslide size. Landslide attributes correlate more with other internal attributes than with external factors. Further systems research on Himalayan landslide problems has generated a technique for the prediction of the post-monsoon landslide clearance problem based on the semi-log linear rank-size relationship of populations of landslide outfalls and technique for defining the thresholds of landslide initiation based on linear regression.
Page(s):
59-69
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Pakistan Journal of Environmental Science, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Year: 2001