Georisk design approach for sustainable development on Mountainous Terrain / M.Z. Ghania and Z. Mohamed

• Main Authors: Ghania, M.Z., Mohamed, Z.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Disasters and engineering; Earthquake resistant design; Engineering geology. Rock mechanics. Soil mechanics.
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/43449/1/43449.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/43449/

Residential on or near mountainous terrain is becoming a popular life style partly owing to deficiency in flat land. However, it is subjected to risk of slope instability and slope hazards. Studies reported that slope hazards are commonly triggered by monsoon rain, human activities, deforestation or...