Geomorphology
mojgan entezari; shokoh Esteki; Hamide Gholamhaydari
Abstract
A major cause of landslide and relevant losses and fatalities is inappropriate land management, especially in mountainous areas and valleys. In this study, risk-vulnerability superimposed model was used to investigate the probability of occurrence of fatal landslides in Tarom Watershed. The risk-vulnerability ...
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A major cause of landslide and relevant losses and fatalities is inappropriate land management, especially in mountainous areas and valleys. In this study, risk-vulnerability superimposed model was used to investigate the probability of occurrence of fatal landslides in Tarom Watershed. The risk-vulnerability superimposed model has been formulated to evaluate the landslide risk and vulnerability. These factors include topography, geology, number of streams, rainfall, frequency of faults, land use, density of roads, population density, and construction density, which were considered and analyzed in the present model. According to the model output (i.e., risk-vulnerability map), it was figured out that the eastern and northeastern parts of Tarom Watershed are exposed to highest levels of risk and vulnerability. That is, occurrence of a fatal landslide with financial losses is more probable in these areas, as compared to other parts of the watershed. Results of the present research showed that 17%, 35%, 23%, 16%, and 9% of the entire watershed area were classified as being exposed to very low, low, moderate, high, and very high risk-vulnerability levels, respectively. Advantage and superiority of this model over other models and methodologies for landslide study is simultaneous consideration of landslide occurrence risk and vulnerability of the study area to the landslide, making it capable of determining the areas of higher probability of fatal landslides with financial losses.
