Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction : Managing Disasters in Small Steps

Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction : Managing Disasters in Small Steps / Malcolm G. Anderson, Elizabeth Holcombe.

Many areas of the world are at risk from landslides and their consequences; rainfall-triggered landslides particularly affect developing countries in the tropics. Rapid urbanization and the associated growth of unauthorized and densely populated communities in hazardous locations, such as steep slop...

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Main Author: Anderson, M. G.
Other Authors: Holcombe, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2013.
Series:World Bank e-Library.
Subjects:
Landslide hazard analysis.
Landslides > Risk assessment.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Landslide hazard analysis
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; TABLES; P.1 Critical questions and decisions addressed in this book; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 FOUNDATIONS: REDUCING LANDSLIDE RISK IN COMMUNITIES; 1.1 Key chapter elements; 1.1.1 Coverage; 1.1.2 Documents; 1.1.3 Steps and outputs; 1.1.4 Community-based aspects; 1.2 Getting started; 1.2.1 Briefing note; FIGURES; 1.1 Global landslide risk; 1.2 MoSSaiC premises, vision, and foundations; 1.2.2 What is unique about MoSSaiC?; 1.1 The key teams and tasks in MoSSaiC; 1.2.3 Guiding principles; 1.2.4 Risks and challenges.
  • 1.3 Disaster risk: context and concepts1.3.1 Global disaster risk; 1.3 Number of great natural catastrophes and associated economic losses worldwide, 1950-2010; 1.4 Normalized losses from U.S. Gulf and Atlantic hurricane damage, 1900-2005; 1.2 Categories of catastrophe; 1.5 Exposure and fatalities associated with rainfall-triggered landslides, by income class; 1.3.2 Disaster risk management; 1.6 Global rainfall-triggered landslide fatalities; 1.3 Disaster risk management components; 1.3.3 Recent influences on disaster risk management policy and implications for MoSSaiC.
  • 1.7 Disaster risk management options1.8 Societal landslide risk in Hong Kong SAR, China; 1.9 International advocacy landscape for disaster risk reduction; 1.10 UN disaster response organizational framework; 1.4 Lessons learned from World Bank natural disaster projects; 1.11 Benefit-cost ratio for hurricane-proofing prevention measures for houses in Canaries and Patience, St. Lucia; 1.12 Mitigation benefit-cost ratio for wood frame building in Canaries, St. Lucia, with and without the effect of climate change; 1.13 Efficiency of risk management instruments and occurrence probability.
  • 1.14 Evolution of social fund objectives and activities1.3.4 Landslide risk and other development policy issues; 1.15 Population growth and urbanization drivers of landslide risk; 1.4 MoSSaiC; 1.4.1 Overview; 1.5 Percentage of owner occupancy, unauthorized housing, and squatter housing by country income group, 1990; 1.4.2 MoSSaiC: The science basis; 1.6 The foundations of MoSSaiC; 1.16 MoSSaiC architecture-integrating science, communities, and evidence; 1.17 Housing stock can reflect community vulnerability; 1.4.3 MoSSaiC: The community basis.
  • 1.18 Stakeholder connections in Guatemala City's precarious settlements, showing how money flows around, but not into, the settlements1.7 Coping mechanisms deployed by individual residents in vulnerable communities to reduce landslide risk; 1.19 Learning from community residents; 1.20 Effects of prompt and informed action; 1.8 Value of community engagement; 1.4.4 MoSSaiC: The evidence base; 1.4.5 MoSSaiC project components; 1.4.6 MoSSaiC pilots; 1.9 Basic MoSSaiC outputs and outcomes providing evidence for ex ante landslide mitigation.

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