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This section offers a panorama of the corrective and protection measures that might be applied for the mitigation of landslide risk. Two different strategies may be envisaged depending on whether the aim is at the reduction of the landslide hazard or of the respective consequences. Hazard reduction measures are distinguished into stabilization measures and control measures. The first category includes the stabilization measures that lead to the reduction of the driving forces or to the increase of the resistant ones, while the second one refers to the interception and control measures that diminish the landslide severity (e.g. magnitude, impact energy or pressure) or even the probability of reaching the elements at risk. Consequence avoidance includes measures for the protection of the exposed elements or even the decrease of their vulnerability, although the latter lacks in efficiency in comparison with the rest. Using this classification, a variety of mitigation measures is presented for three different landslide types: rockfalls, debris flows and landslides, the latter embracing a broad range of shallow to deep-seated slope movements, including rock slides, earth slides, earth flows or complex phenomena.
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Mavrouli, OC., Corsini, A., Corominas, J. (2014). Disaster Mitigation by Corrective and Protection Measures. In: Van Asch, T., Corominas, J., Greiving, S., Malet, JP., Sterlacchini, S. (eds) Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6769-0_11
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