TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fast slope movements: initiation mechanisms, runout behaviour and hazard mapping. An introductory note to the special section

Domenico Calcaterra(*) & Francesco M. Guadagno(**)

Science versus economy and sociology: balanced modeling for a balanced protection... how to fit the needs of the society?

Eric Leroi(*)

Further hydrological analyses on landslide initiation in the Sarno area (Italy)

Francesco Fiorillo(*), Libera Esposito(*), Gerardo Grelle(*), Paola Revellino(*) & Francesco M. Guadagno(*)

SPH modeling of fast muddy debris flow: numerical and experimental comparison of certain commonly utilized approaches

Antonio Pasculli(*), Lorenzo Minatti(**), Nicola Sciarra(*) & Enio Paris(**)

Debris avalanche, landslide initiation, dynamic modelling, Southern Italy.

Paola Revellino(*), Luigi Guerriero(*), Gerardo Grelle(*), Oldrich Hungr(**), Francesco Fiorillo(*), Libera Esposito(*) & Francesco M. Guadagno(*)

Approaches for mapping susceptibility to rockfalls initiation in carbonate rock-masses: a case study from the Sorrento coast (southern Italy)

Donatella Apuzzo(*), Pantaleone De Vita(**), Biagio Palma(***) & Domenico Calcaterra(**)

A GIS-based approach for estimating volcaniclastic flow susceptibility: a case study from Sorrentina Peninsula (Campania Region)

Marina Bisson(1), Giandomenico Fubelli(2), Roberto Sulpizio(3),(4) & Giovanni Zanchetta(5),(1)

Vertical-axis rotations in the Sicilian fold and thrust belt: new structural constraints from the Madonie Mts. (Sicily, Italy)

Giovanni Barreca(*) & Carmelo Monaco(*)

Fault growth as a key control on the sedimentary architecture and depositional environments of extensional basins: the case study of the Tablate area (Granada Basin, Spain)

Andrea Rustichelli(1), Fabrizio Agosta(2), Emanuele Tondi(1), Jesus Galindo-Zaldívar (3),(4), Claudio Di Celma (1), Vincenzo Spina (1) & (5)

Thermal history of the Aragón-Béarn basin (Late Paleozoic, western Pyrenees, Spain); insights into basin tectonic evolution

Valentina Cantarelli(1), Luca Aldega(2), Sveva Corrado(3), Chiara Invernizzi(1) & Antonio Casas-Sainz(4)

Ligurian-derived olistostrome in the Pseudomacigno Formation of the Stazzema Zone (Alpi Apuane, Italy). Geological implications at regional scale

Etta Patacca(*), Paolo Scandone(*), Paolo Conti(**),(***), Sergio Mancini(***) & Giovanni Massa(***)

High-resolution δ13C stratigraphy through the Selli Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE1a) in the Apulia carbonate platform: the Borgo Celano section (western Gargano Promontory, Southern Italy)

Roberto Graziano(*), Arturo Raspini(**) & Luigi Spalluto(***)

Stratigraphic and structural features of the Sibillini Mountains (Umbria-Marche Apennines, Italy)

Pietro Pierantoni(*), Giovanni Deiana(*) & Sandro Galdenzi(**)