ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a new deterministic model, using dynamic hydrogeological models, is presented: the Landslide Predictive Cartography (LPC) methodology. In order to assess the efficiency of this methodology, it is applied on the Menton area where a landslide mapping is well defined. The origin of this methodology comes from the study of the Rucu Pichincha volcano near the town of Quito in Ecuador. The chapter discusses the LPC methodology for evaluating slope failure in wide study area. This deterministic methodology is based on the limit equilibrium theory and combined with a dynamic hydrogeological model. The LPC methodology uses its own hydrogeological dynamic model. This model assumes that the shallow subsurface flow has the same behaviour than a perched water table. In case there is a homogenous soil thickness the shallow subsurface flow downslope follows the topographic gradient. Once the accumulation of the water begins at the base of the soil column, the accumulated zone is considered like saturated.
