Análise da suscetibilidade ao desprendimento de blocos rochosos nas arribas da orla costeira do Algarve: aplicação do método Rock Engineering System (RES)

This paper presents an application of Rock Engineering System method in an attempt to reveal and assess the inherent instability potential along the Algarve rocky coast, which evolves through intermittent and discontinuous events of slope mass movements. The main objective has been defining the principal causative and triggering factors responsible for the manifestation of cliff instability, quantify their interactions, obtain their weighted coefficients, and calculate the instability index, which refers to the inherent potential instability of each coastal cliff.