Tackling landslide risk: Helping land use policy to reflect unplanned housing realities in the Eastern Caribbean |
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Authors: | Elizabeth Holcombe Malcolm Anderson |
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Institution: | 1. School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol University, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK;2. Pro Vice-Chancellors’ Office, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TH, UK |
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Abstract: | Landslide risk reduction in developing countries is preferable to disaster remediation and recovery, in both social and economic terms. The implementation of landslide preventative measures is closely related to the development of ‘good practice’ in land use management, at government and community levels, especially in the face of rapid and unplanned urbanisation. These areas of poverty and vulnerability to ‘natural’ hazards present a challenging environment for which to develop realistic land use policies and practices. There is little evidence of on-the-ground delivery of landslide risk reduction. However, scientifically based landslide risk reduction strategies can be effective. In the Eastern Caribbean construction of drainage networks in communities afforded an improvement in slope stability – after a 1 in 100-year rainfall event there were no landslides on previously unstable slopes in densely populated urban communities. This has been recognised in policy terms in the first ever Caribbean-wide, 5-year risk reduction programme. Such evidence represents an important first step in developing realistic land use policies for landslide-prone areas occupied by those migrating to urban centres in the Eastern Caribbean. |
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Keywords: | Landslide Land use management Risk reduction Developing countries |
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