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In Quito, Ecuador, landslides present a significant threat to communities settled on hillsides and ravine slopes, and geotechnical data is needed to assess slope stability.
Disaster risk is the result of complex interactions between the drivers of vulnerability such as poverty and lack of access to resources and the impacts from multiple hazards (wit
This paper examines the impact of rapid urbanisation on the production of unequal disaster risk in Khokana, peri-urban town in the Kathmandu
Despite concerted calls over the past 20 years to ensure that urban development is undertaken in nmanner that reduces disaster risk, urban planning often remains myopically focused on the built en
Quito, Ecuador, is a city at risk of many hazards including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides, compounded by the widespread presence of problematic volcanic soils known as Cangahua.
Atificial light at night (ALAN) has positive and negative effects on social, economic, environmental, and ecological systems, and will increase with urban expansion.
This paper argues for normative visioning as an underdeveloped component of adaptation planning.
Rainfall-triggered landslides are increasingly a concern in rapidly urbanising areas around the globe.
The systemic nature of risk is increasingly acknowledged within scholarship, policy and practice relating to disaster management.
