The Vaiont landslide : re-assessment of the evidence leads to rejection of the consensus
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 12-030-1586
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/s10346-018-0996-y
- Title of journal
- Landslides
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- First page
- 1815
- Volume
- 15
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- ISSN
- 1612-510X
- Open access status
- Compliant
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Europe’s worst (un-)natural disaster in 1963 should have provided lessons for all subsequent dam projects in mountainous regions, but no-one was ever able to explain the world’s most studied landslide in a way that accounted for all of the evidence. This paper is significant because it is the first to do so, by integrating recently published new subsurface data with all other available data from the late 1950s onwards. It identifies the critical error that misled scientific and engineering research into the problem for more than half a century and underpins important lessons for future dam projects and related research.
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- Non-English
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