Climate change effects on landslide phenomena

A landslide is defined as a downslope mass movement of soil, sediment, and rock or a massive volume of material that moves downslope under the effect of gravity force. Landslides have caused fatalities and economic damages in numerous countries globally, and the consequences continue to escalate. Climate change involves alterations of climate characteristics, including mean and variability with respect to time, which tends to be many decades or even longer. Natural processes of the climate system may cause climate change, or it can be forced by external influences, like changes in the solar cycle, volcanic activity, and long-term anthropogenic activity that changes atmospheric composition.