ABSTRACT

This book, first published in 1984, deals authoritatively with the nature and management of slope failures and sediment movement and their impact on the hazardous landscape of Los Angeles county. Bringing together for the first time a wide range of information derived from field observations, interviews, manuscript records, local agency reports and published sources, the book presents an analysis of the ways in which a rapidly developing metropolis has come to terms with complex geomorphological hazards. In particular, the events accompanying the major storms of 1914, 1934, 1969 and 1978 are reconstructed in detail.

part 1|55 pages

Contexts

chapter |2 pages

Geomorphological hazards

chapter |36 pages

The hazard context

chapter |17 pages

Geomorphological processes

part 2|60 pages

Crises

chapter |1 pages

A Sequence of Storms

chapter |7 pages

1914

chapter |6 pages

1934

chapter |9 pages

1938

chapter |24 pages

1969

chapter |9 pages

1978

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion: Before and Between Crises

part 3|54 pages

Consequences

chapter |9 pages

Response and Responsibility

chapter |45 pages

Management responses

part 4|15 pages

Coda

chapter |9 pages

Costs and benefits in context

chapter |6 pages

Sequences and cycles