Understanding shallow landslides in Campos do Jordão municipality – Brazil: disentangling the anthropic effects from natural causes in the disaster of 2000

Located in a mountainous area of south-eastern Brazil, the municipality of Campos do Jordão has been hit by several landslides in recent history. Among those events, the landslides of early 2000 were significant in terms of the number of deaths (10), the population affected and the destruction of in...

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Published in:	Natural hazards and earth system sciences Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 15 - 30
Main Authors:	Mendes, Rodolfo M, de Andrade, Marcio Roberto M, Tomasella, Javier, de Moraes, Marcio Augusto E, Scofield, Graziela B
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 03-01-2018 Copernicus Publications
Subjects:	Area Brazil Computer simulation Disasters Emergency communications systems Environmental aspects Fatalities Floods Geology Geotechnical engineering Hazardous areas Human behavior Human factors Hydrology Landslides Landslides & mudslides Lithology Mountainous areas Natural disasters Numerical experiments Policies Precipitation Public policy Rain Rainfall Slope Slope stability Software Stability analysis Storm damage Studies Surveying Urban areas Brazil
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