Shifting ground

Landslide risk mitigation through community-based landscape interventions

verfasst von

Joseph Claghorn, Christian Werthmann

Abstract

Thousands of inhabitants in marginal communities die in landslides every year. Rapid urbanization in mountainous areas, combined with heavier rains associated with climate change, is leading to an increase in fatal landslide events. Landscape architects trained to analyze and intervene in situations with complex natural and social territorial dynamics are in a position to make positive contributions to managing risk in such situations. An ongoing collaboration between landscape architects from Germany and urbanists in Medellín, Colombia, is carrying out a research and implementation proposal to anticipate and mitigate risk in low-income settlements on Medellín's mountainous urban periphery. Aftera first phase examining the problem on the metropolitan scale and a second phase examining two specific neighbourhoods, they have proposed five pilot projects to test strategies of risk alleviation through monitoring and early warning systems, drainage improvements, micro-farming, slope forestation, and through developing sites with supplied services.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of Landscape Architecture

Band

10

Seiten

6-15

Anzahl der Seiten

10

ISSN

1862-6033

Publikationsdatum

16.02.2015

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 11 – Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinschaften, SDG 13 – Klimaschutzmaßnahmen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2015.1011419 (Zugang: Geschlossen)
https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2015.1011419 (Zugang: Unbekannt)