Active faults as factor of geomorphological risk and their landscape-formation role (general concept of research)

Abstract

New perspectives of geomorphological risk conception founded in the early 1990th are shown. Active faults are considered to be a factor of risk. Some of tectonic geomorphology postulates were adjusted to the conception of geomorphological risk. Author suggests to consider landforms of faults' zones as a new type of relief, to distinguish geomorphological risk from geomorphological danger, to divide the latter into hidden and obvious, localized/sudden and dispersed/continuous, dangerous for people, technology or environment. Aims and purposes of geomorphological risk investigations are determined.