Human Settlement Pressure Drives Slow‐Moving Landslide Exposure
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F24%3AA25039OC" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/24:A25039OC - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004830" target="_blank" >https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004830</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024ef004830" target="_blank" >10.1029/2024ef004830</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Human Settlement Pressure Drives Slow‐Moving Landslide Exposure
Original language description
A rapidly growing population across mountain regions is pressuring expansion onto steeper slopes, leading to increased exposure of people and their assets to slow‐moving landslides. These moving hillslopes can inflict damage to buildings and infrastructure, accelerate with urban alterations, and catastrophically fail with climatic and weather extremes. Yet, systematic estimates of slow‐moving landslide exposure and their drivers have been elusive. Here, we present a new global database of 7,764 large (A ≥ 0.1 km<jats:sup>2</jats:sup>) slow‐moving landslides across nine IPCC regions. Using high‐resolution human settlement footprint data, we identify 563 inhabited landslides. We estimate that 9% of reported slow‐moving landslides are inhabited, in a given basin, and have 12% of their areas occupied by human settlements, on average. We find the density of settlements on unstable slopes decreases in basins more affected by slow‐moving landslides, but varies across regions with greater flood exposure. Across most regions, urbanization can be a relevant driver of slow‐moving landslide exposure, while steepness and flood exposure have regionally varying influences. In East Asia, slow‐moving landslide exposure increases with urbanization, gentler slopes, and less flood exposure. Our findings quantify how disparate knowledge creates uncertainty that undermines an assessment of the drivers of slow‐moving landslide exposure in mountain regions, facing a future of rising risk, such as Central Asia, Northeast Africa, and the Tibetan Plateau.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Earth's Future
ISSN
2328-4277
e-ISSN
2328-4277
Volume of the periodical
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Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
17
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UT code for WoS article
001314373300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85204593380