EU LANDSLIDE RISK STUDIES
September 1st, 2005
BY ALAN OSBORNBRITAIN is not normally thought of being subject to landslides and avalanches in the way that Alpine countries are, but the coming of climate change has made these natural disasters a real and potentially very expensive threat to us. Alan Forster, an engineering geologist with the British Geological Survey, says climate change was clearly to blame for events in Britain like the collapse of Holbeck Hall hotel near Scarborough back in 1993 and more recently the extreme rain in Cornwall's Boscastle and the "debris flows" which blocked two trunk roads ...
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