Landslide avoidance and protection are part of landslide risk management.
Nonetheless, tree encroachment could increase forest protection against landslides and avalanches in the context of global change.
Still, protection from landslides is a major transport safety issue, possibly due to the concern and dread felt by the car-driving population travelling through landslide-prone areas.
Similarly, mountainous topographies may lead to an emphasis on protection from landslides, e.g., in Japan (Noguchi et al. 2011) and Italy (see discussion about safety above).
It is as if we remove the protection for avoiding landslides," she said.
The local knowledge that encourages the maintenance of certain forests as a protection against avalanches and landslides by stabilizing the slopes only became commonplace over time, due to the repeated threat of landslides and avalanches to individual farms.
The hydro-geological structure characteristics are the fundamental basis for stability evaluation, performing protection and administration of a landslide.
Furthermore, similar studies can prove useful for landslide hazard analyses, helping to adopt adequate protection and mitigation measures, framed in a climate change scenario.
Therefore, forest stands under protection regime or with protective function (where the principal management goal is to offer protection against e.g. landslides, watershed, steep slopes) were excluded for the main analysis.
Species composition, growth rates, tree spacing and age influence the time (years after planting) at which plantings afford effective protection against the initiation of shallow landslides.
The comprehensively documented landslide areas are especially valuable elements of the nature protection network within the Carpathian Euro-region.
