Landslide hazard assessment and risk reduction in the rural community of Rampac Grande, Cordillera Negra, Peru

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985891%3A_____%2F24%3A00584933" target="_blank" >RIV/67985891:_____/24:00584933 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00025798:_____/24:10168898

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11307-1" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11307-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11307-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12665-023-11307-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Landslide hazard assessment and risk reduction in the rural community of Rampac Grande, Cordillera Negra, Peru

Original language description

This article describes the landslide risk assessment of the Rampac Grande rural community in the Peruvian Andes, where an unexpectedly fast-moving landslide claimed fatalities in 2009. The study site represents a socially, culturally, and geologically challenging environment that limits applicable technical solutions for landslide risk reduction and demands a high level of community participation in all risk reduction steps. The performed landslide surface movement monitoring and slope stability calculations showed that the studied slopes are very close to failure. Therefore, the detailed hazard assessment was combined with field investigations of household vulnerabilities to perform a qualitative risk assessment in the zone around the 2009 catastrophic landslide. Results show that the high vulnerability, rather than the very high hazard, is responsible for assigning houses to the high-risk classes and education or improvement of the households' income is key for further risk reduction. This underlines the importance of vulnerability reduction through the collaboration of the community members with external actors (e.g., Peruvian experts), which was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. The context of the performed landslide risk assessment provides a summary of the 12-year-long involvement of different actors in the landslide risk reduction effort and the evaluation of the effectiveness of the previously adopted mitigation measures. It suggests that the community perspective on the mitigation measures and its risk perception changes determine the long-term risk reduction outcomes.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

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

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/SS02030023" target="_blank" >SS02030023: Rock Environment and Natural Resources</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Environmental Earth Sciences

ISSN

1866-6280

e-ISSN

1866-6299

Volume of the periodical

83

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

27

UT code for WoS article

001128495200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85180362808