Community participation in landslide risk reduction: a case history from Central Andes, Peru

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13440%2F19%3A43894749" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13440/19:43894749 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985891:_____/19:00511840

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10346-019-01203-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10346-019-01203-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10346-019-01203-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10346-019-01203-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Community participation in landslide risk reduction: a case history from Central Andes, Peru

Original language description

This article describes the intertwined history of scientific research and landslide disaster risk reduction efforts in a small peasant community in the Rampac Grande of the Peruvian Andes. It was struck by a catastrophic landslide in 2009, claiming five fatalities and challenging local knowledge about landslide occurrence and mitigation practices. This article describes collaboration between a team of scientists, comprising both foreign and Peruvian experts and the local community, which started after the 2009 landslide and culminated during the disaster risk reduction (DRR) project which ran from 2016 to 2017. It illustrates the shift from refusing outside intervention to acceptance of the proposed measures and active community participation in their application and maintenance. This was achieved by rethinking the role of local and scientific knowledge during the process of DRR through enhanced communication and the appropriate use of the participative methods. Emphasis is placed on the crucial role played by community representative participation during formulation of the expected outcomes of the DRR, which leads to hazard reduction through the preparation of hazard maps and of the monitoring of landslide movement. Enhanced community development can also be evidenced by the construction of water tanks in the year following termination of the project. Despite the documented short-term success in landslide DRR, defining long-term exit strategy allowing the community to continue applying the measures with necessity of the minimum input from the outside actors is intrinsically difficult and still needs to be resolved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-02521S" target="_blank" >GA16-02521S: Individual and organizational decision-making in environmental risk reduction: determinants, motivations and efficiency</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Landslides

ISSN

1612-510X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1763-1777

UT code for WoS article

000482448500012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85068907819