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Natural Terrain - A Constraint To Development? |
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The 2002 IMM Hong Kong
conference was held in November. Keynote papers were presented by Earl Brabb on "What are
Governments Doing to Reduce the Consequence of Landslides?" and Oldrich Hungr on "Hazard and Risk
Assessment in the Runout zone of Rapid Landslides". Copies of the proceedings of the conference (18
papers, 237 pages), which include all the papers presented plus a further
5 not presented (application of regolith mapping to landslide studies,
two case histories and the application of artificial intelligence to natural
terrain studies) can be ordered from Alberto Dias, Hon. Secretary, IMMM – HK
Branch, c/o Maunsell Geotechnical
Services Ltd., 20/F Grand Central Plaza,
Tower 2, 138 Shatin Rural Committee Road, Sha |
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Read the Conference Report here. |