Education, Training and Capacity Development for Mainstreaming Landslides Risk Management

Parkash, Surya

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“…Examples are the inclusion of LS-DRR topics in the university curricula and the training of officials on LS-DRR. A national education programme on LS has been introduced in Bangladesh (Ali et al, 2014), Colombia (Hermelin and Bedoya, 2008 ), India (Parkash, 2013), Malaysia (Abdullah, 2013), Sri Lanka (Bandara and Weerasinghe, 2013) and in Vietnam (Long et al, 2010). A distinctly small number of studies discuss the implementation of public awareness schemes and improvement of knowledge and skills on LS-DRR, despite the fact that this action is highly recommended (0.18) and the positive effects of such DRR actions (e.g.…”

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“…For example in Guatemala, 401 awareness on how to detect early warning signs is recommended (Santi et al, 2011). Because 402 local people are the first actors after a LS occurs, their role in DRR cannot be underestimated 403 (Parkash, 2013). It is therefore recommended that especially local people should be targeted 404 Knowledge and education has a moderate implementation/recommendation ratio, i.e.…”

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Landslide risk reduction measures: A review of practices and challenges for the tropics

Maes

Kervyn

Hontheim

et al. 2017

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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The overall objective of this review is to gain insights into landslide risk reduction measures that are applied or recommended in tropical landslide-prone countries, and the challenges at play. More specifically, this review aims to (i) presenting an overview of recent studies on landslides and landslide risk reduction in these countries, (ii) exploring the factors controlling the publication output on landslides and landslide risk reduction, (iii) reviewing the various landslide risk reduction measures recommended and implemented, and (iv) identifying the bottlenecks for the implementation of these strategies. A compilation of recommended and implemented landslide risk reduction measures in 99 landslide-prone tropical countries was made, based on an extensive review of scientific literature (382 publications). The documented measures are analysed using a scheme of risk reduction measures that combines classifications of the Hyogo Framework for Action and the SafeLand project. Our literature review shows that the factors influencing the number of publications on landslides and landslide risk reduction per country are (in order of importance) the absolute physical exposure of people to landslides, the population number and the Human Development Index of a country. The ratio of publications on landslide risk reduction versus publications on landslides for landslide-prone tropical countries does not vary much between these countries (average: 0.28). A significant fraction (0.30) of all known landslide hazard reduction measures are neither implemented nor recommended according to our review. The most recommended landslide risk reduction component is ‘risk management and vulnerability reduction’ (0.38). However, the most implemented component is ‘risk assessment’ (0.57). Overall, the ratio of implemented versus recommended landslide risk reduction measures in the tropics is low (<0.50) for most landslide risk reduction components, except for ‘risk assessment’ (3.01). The most cited bottlenecks for implementing landslide risk reduction measures are scientific (0.30) and political (0.29) in nature.

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Landslide risk reduction measures: A review of practices and challenges for the tropics

Maes

Kervyn

Hontheim

et al. 2017

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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“…El abordaje de la mitigación de deslizamientos en ambientes educativos es un tema de interés para la comunidad científica internacional. Los estudios existentes se han desarrollado principalmente en países en vías de desarrollo, como México 17 , Honduras 18 , Brasil 19 , Uganda 20 , Malasia 21 , Indonesia 22 , China 23 , Nepal 24 , e India 25 . Muchas de las experiencias vinculadas con deslizamientos han sido direccionadas hacia estudiantes de nivel primario y secundario (medio), abordándose temas como la efectividad de textos escolares 26 , las percepciones cognitivas e ideas erróneas preexistentes 27 , y el nivel de instrucción, preparación y capacidad adaptativa en mitigación del riesgo de desastres 28; 29; 30 .…”

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Experiencias Educativas Para La Reducción Del Riesgo De Deslizamientos en Argentina

Groch,

Inés Rizzo,

Carolina Rovila

et al. 2024

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Muchos desastres acontecidos en zonas de montaña en el mundo han sido vinculados condeslizamientos. Los trabajos de mitigación representan un desafío, principalmente, por sus altoscostos económicos de implementación. El objetivo de este estudio es realizar una propuesta demedidas de mitigación destinadas a reducir el riesgo de deslizamientos a partir de experienciaseducativas colaborativas en la Cordillera del Viento (Patagonia, Argentina). Se implementaronconversatorios, talleres y trabajos de campo en los que se involucraron activamente más de 150estudiantes de nivel medio. A partir de estas actividades, se pudo crear un conjunto de medidasde mitigación, identificar actores sociales responsables para su implementación y diseñar mapastemáticos regionales aplicados, que reflejan conocimientos teóricos y empíricos de utilidad parafuturos abordajes por parte de la población local, los tomadores de decisiones y la comunidadcientífica en general y que podrían ser considerados e incluidos en el diseño de nuevos planes deordenamiento territorial.

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“…Recently, in order to promote activities envisaged in the Sendai Framework globally, a set of interactive teaching tools was prepared as texts in the form of PPT or PDF tools consisting of published references, papers, reports, guidelines, laws and other topics related to landslide issues (Sassa 2017;Landslide Dynamics 2018). The fundamental aim is to understand BLandslide dynamics^as the default basis for reducing landslide disaster risk, as investigated in a wide body of research (Wieczorek 1984;Cruden 1991;Cruden and Varnes 1996;Cheung and Shiu 2000;Alcántara-Ayala 2002;Dai and Lee 2002;Crozier and Glade 2005;Catani et al 2005;Hungr et al 2005;Fell et al 2008;Wieczorek and Leahy 2008;Sassa and Canuti 2008;Rossi et al 2010;Petley 2012;Parkash 2013;Tofani et al 2013;Corominas et al 2014;UNISDR 2015UNISDR , 2017Gariano and Guzzetti 2016). The primary aim is to reduce long-term losses resulting from landslides by improving our understanding of the ground failure causes.…”

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“…Generally speaking, effective approaches to reducing landslide risk consist of developing methodologies to identify landslide-prone areas and developing risk reduction approaches to mitigate the effects of landslides in these areas (Anderson et al 2008). In order to take advantage of these approaches, it is essential to ensure knowledge transfer and training, as well as capacity building (UNISDR 2007;Parkash 2013;Alcántara-Ayala and Moreno 2016). This approach involves sharing the research findings, lessons learned and field training designed with disaster management experts and professionals, such as planners, engineers, architects, geographers, environmental specialists and university teachers as well as increased resilience at the community level, by engaging and involving communities.…”

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Understanding of landslide risk through learning by doing: case study of Koroška Bela community, Slovenia

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Activities toward better understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk are an important part of the voluntary commitment written into the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2030. The present study highlights of the learning by doing approach implemented in the case of Potoška planina landslide, which poses a threat for community of Koroška Bela. For the first time in Slovenia, a cooperative team has been established for the purpose of raising awareness and understanding of landslide risk in the community. In addition, a combination of indoor and outdoor training sessions provides both theoretical and practical exercises on how landslides may be identified, together with their key characteristics and methods for landslide monitoring. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of this team, which is made up of different sectors, a questionnaire was drawn up. The responses to the questionnaire showed that understanding of landslide hazards among the members of cooperative team is significantly better than it was before the group was established. The present research proposes a methodology whereby, through cooperative team trainings and mutual cooperation among relevant stakeholders and local authority, important steps toward understanding landslide risks can be achieved, which in particularly is important for local communities and is sure to become a focal point in the coming years, in parallel with the increasing scarcity of financial resources available at the local level.

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Education, Training and Capacity Development for Mainstreaming Landslides Risk Management

Cited by 5 publications

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Landslide risk reduction measures: A review of practices and challenges for the tropics

Landslide risk reduction measures: A review of practices and challenges for the tropics

Experiencias Educativas Para La Reducción Del Riesgo De Deslizamientos en Argentina

Understanding of landslide risk through learning by doing: case study of Koroška Bela community, Slovenia

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