Sentence examples for prevent landslide from inspiring English sources

In the event of a major storm coinciding with areas of indigenous forest little can be done to prevent landslide initiation particularly as slope failures are typically the deeper-seated debris avalanches that tend to generate the bulk of sediment.

Trees on steep slopes often prevent landslides by binding the soil with the roots, anchoring it to the bedrock and reducing the amount of water it contains.

"Perhaps we cannot prevent landslides, flash floods and debris flows," said Dr. José L. López, an engineering professor at the University of Central Venezuela who speaks for the government on weather issues.

The directive would have obliged the member states to minimise soil erosion and compaction, maintain the organic matter contained in the soil, prevent landslides and prevent soil from being contaminated with toxic substances.

It campaigned, with the help of successive British governments, against the European Union's proposed soil framework directive, which sought to minimise soil erosion and compaction, to prevent landslides and to prevent soil from being contaminated with toxic substances.

Then the engineers drove 2,000 rock anchors into the walls to prevent landslides and sprayed them with what they describe as a "soup" of seeds and plant food, so new roots could knit anchors and quarry walls together.

In order to justify spending money on conservation efforts, scientists have felt under increasing pressure to argue for the human benefits that would accrue – for instance, calling for forests to be preserved because they can prevent landslides and naturally purify water for human consumption rather than because forests should be maintained for their own sake.

Recently measures to prevent landslides have been implemented and at the time of this study new measures were planned.

This consists of a few hundred or so researchers scattered around the world, plus a very large practitioner community of people who engineer slopes to prevent landslides (for example, building railway embankments or road cuttings) or try to fix them when they have occurred.

We focus on case studies whereby vegetation has been used in conjunction with civil engineering to prevent landslides in Hong Kong and the social and practical aspects of planting on steep slopes to conserve soil on a large-scale in mainland China.

They aid as biodiversity repositories (Li et al. 2009), restrain soil erosion (Nandy et al. 2011), prevent landslides given that tree roots bind soil, regulate air humidity, temperature and mitigate global warming (Cabral et al. 2010) by absorbing 30%% of fossil fuel CO2 emissions (Pan et al. 2011).