Landslide hazard and risk assessment at different scales

The special issue of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences entitled "Landslide hazard and risk assessment at different scales" contains six of more than 20 oral and poster contributions originally presented in the session NH3.9 Landslide risk assessment methods and strategies held at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, in Vienna (Austria), on 2-7 April 2010. The mainly aims of the session were: i) to present contributions dealing with heuristic, statistical, deterministic or physical based methods and models to evaluate landslide susceptibility and hazard and ii) to evaluate qualitative or quantitative vulnerability and risk estimates in different areas based on different data. During the session have been discussed contributions dealing with landslide hazard and risk assessment at local, regional or national scale, in different physiographic, climatic and geological settings.