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

Anderson, Malcolm G. ; Holcombe, Elizabeth

Washington, DC:World Bank

关键词: Community participation;    Developing countries;    Hazard mitigation;    Humid tropics;    Landslide hazard;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-0-8213-9456-4
RP-ID  :  74917

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This book has two main aims: todemonstrate to international development agencies,governments, policy makers, project managers, practitioners,and community residents that landslide hazard can often bereduced in vulnerable urban communities in the developingworld, and to provide practical guidance for those in chargeof delivering Management of Slope Stability in Communities(MoSSaiC) on the ground. The purpose of the book is to takereaders into the most vulnerable communities in order tounderstand and address rainfall-triggered landslide hazardsin these areas. Community residents are not just seen asthose at risk, but as the people with the best practicalknowledge of the slopes in their neighborhood. As used here,'community based' means engaging and working withcommunities to find and deliver solutions to landslide risktogether. This approach leads governments to develop newpractices and policies for tackling landslide risk. Thisbook standardizes those elements of MoSSaiC that have led toits successful implementation in the Eastern Caribbean, andthat are essential to the overall objectives (such ascommunity engagement, mapping localized slope features, andbroad drainage design principles). The book's ninechapters provide guidance to project managers andpractitioners on the entire end-to-end process ofcommunity-based landslide risk reduction. While certainchapters are more directly relevant to one audience thananother, it is helpful for all audiences to read the'getting started' section of each chapter and bealerted to the nine project milestones.