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Landslide hazard and risk assessment: a case study from the Hlohovec–Sered’ landslide area in south-west Slovakia

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Landslide hazard or susceptibility assessment is based on the selection of relevant factors which play a role on the slope instability, and it is assumed that landslides will occur at similar conditions to those in the past. The selected statistical method compares parametric maps with the landslide inventory map, and results are then extrapolated to the entire evaluated territory with a final product of landslide hazard or susceptibility map. Elements at risk are defined and analyzed in relation with landslide hazard, and their vulnerability is thus established. The landslide risk map presents risk scenarios and expected financial losses caused by landslides, and it utilizes prognoses and analyses arising from the landslide hazard map. However, especially the risk scenarios for future in a selected area have a significant importance, the literature generally consists of the landslide susceptibility assessment and papers which attempt to assess and construct the map of the landslide risk are not prevail. In the paper presented herein, landslide hazard and risk assessment using bivariate statistical analysis was applied in the landslide area between Hlohovec and Sered’ cities in the south-western Slovakia, and methodology for the risk assessment was explained in detail.

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Authors are deeply grateful to the Anonymous reviewers for their very constructive comments and suggestions which led to the improvement of the quality of the paper. Comments of Assist. Prof. Dr. Hakan A. Nefeslioglu (Cumhuriyet University) are also acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Engineering Geology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Martin Bednarik

  2. Department of Geological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cumhuriyet University, 58140, Sivas, Turkey

    Işık Yilmaz

  3. Faculty of Mining and Geology, Institute of Geological Engineering, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17 listopadu 15, 708 33, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Marian Marschalko

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Bednarik, M., Yilmaz, I. & Marschalko, M. Landslide hazard and risk assessment: a case study from the Hlohovec–Sered’ landslide area in south-west Slovakia. Nat Hazards 64, 547–575 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-012-0257-7

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