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Item Review on Landslide Early Warning System: A Brief History, Evolution, and Controlling Parameters(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022) Menon, V.; Kolathayar, S.A landslide is a life-threatening event causing large infrastructural damages. The major causes for landslides are rainfall, earthquakes, blasting, and other man-made activities. The landslides can happen even without human interference, and hence, it can be classified as a natural process. The population expansion in landslide-prone areas demands a better sustainable method for slope protection and landslide prediction. The main objective of this chapter is to review the previous research studies conducted in the soil slopes using manual instrumentations and the improved data acquisition systems (DAQ) that are used recently. A landslide early warning system (LEWS) is only as strong as the understanding of the phenomenon. The first objective of the development of an early warning system is to find the triggering mechanism of the impending disaster. The three landslide triggering mechanisms are excess rain, seismic activities, and man-made activities. For rainfall-induced landslides, finding the rainfall threshold parameter is one of the difficult tasks. The methods involved in finding this threshold and using it for the development of the LEWS will be discussed in this chapter. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.Item Geohazard Investigation and Management: An Introduction(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022) Adhikari, B.R.; Menon, V.; Kolathayar, S.The understanding of the systemic risk posed by multi-hazard is becoming a new area of research and adopted by the different global and national frameworks. This chapter summarizes the contents of the book titled geohazard mitigations, which contains thirty-eight chapters. These chapters are divided into three sections namely: multi-hazard assessment, landslide hazard assessment and mitigation, and geotechnical engineering. This chapter also includes basic definitions and introduction to geohazard investigation and management. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.Item Review of Experimental Studies on Rainfall-Induced Landslide Using the Laboratory Flume Technique(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024) Menon, V.; Kolathayar, S.Rainfall-induced landslides are one of the most influential disasters in the monsoon season for rainfall-rich parts of India, primarily southern and northeastern. Landslides are geotechnical phenomena that can be studied by conducting field experiments, laboratory experiments, and numerical modeling. Various methods can be adopted to study landslides, and the landslide flume seems to be one of the most widely used techniques for laboratory simulation of the landslides. The scaled models created in a flume can represent the real-world situations so far, which will be reviewed here. The essential aspects of this review include the practicality of the flume experiments from the previous findings, how they can be related to the real-world scenarios, the difference between field instrumentations and laboratory instrumentations, discrepancies that can occur due to the scaled effect of laboratory simulation, and recommended techniques for the future development of laboratory simulated landslides with tilting type flume incorporated with a rainfall simulator. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.