This blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings. The blog is written on a personal basis by Dave Petley, who is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

This blog is a personal project that does not seek to represent Durham University.

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

A new, free landslide resource - Community based landslide risk reduction: Managing disasters in small steps

Over at Bristol University in southwest England Malcolm Anderson and Liz Holcombe have been doing some really interesting work over the last few years in the Caribbean, seeking to fins ways to enhance resilience to landslides.  This has been a highly successful programme that in many ways has not received the recognition that it deserves.  This work has culminated in a new World Bank publication entitled 'Community based landslide risk reduction: Managing disasters in small steps':

 

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