Reducing landslide risk in areas of unplanned housing in the Caribbean - a Government-Community partnership model Export

@article{citeulike:1596013, abstract = {Unplanned housing developments in vulnerable communities on steep tropical and subtropical hillslopes in many developing countries pose major problems for the residents themselves; for Governments, in terms of potential relocation costs; for engineers in determining the precise nature of the hazard and risk; and for donor agencies, such as the World Bank, in establishing the form of disaster mitigation policies that should be promoted. We present a new low-cost, community-based approach to landslide risk reduction in such a context. It is founded on the vision that there is often sufficient capacity within Governments to address such landslide issues without needing to incur significant additional costs by employing non-Government specialist staff. Such expenditure adds to debt and only suboptimally builds within-country capacity. The approach we present develops a cross-ministry Government management team, implements a community-based approach to landslide risk assessment, develops low-cost interventions through the social intervention fund and builds capacity through community knowledge transfer. We report on the successful pilot undertaken in the Skate Town community, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Copyright {\copyright} 2006 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.}, address = {School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Poverty Reduction Fund, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies}, author = {Anderson, Malcolm and Holcombe, Liz and Williams, Donovan}, citeulike-article-id = {1596013}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1336}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/113383391/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/jid.1336}, journal = {Journal of International Development}, keywords = {chasm, mossaic, risk, slope-stability}, number = {2}, pages = {205--221}, posted-at = {2007-08-27 11:24:53}, priority = {4}, title = {Reducing landslide risk in areas of unplanned housing in the Caribbean - a Government-Community partnership model}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1336}, volume = {19}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1596013 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1596013 N2 - Unplanned housing developments in vulnerable communities on steep tropical and subtropical hillslopes in many developing countries pose major problems for the residents themselves; for Governments, in terms of potential relocation costs; for engineers in determining the precise nature of the hazard and risk; and for donor agencies, such as the World Bank, in establishing the form of disaster mitigation policies that should be promoted. We present a new low-cost, community-based approach to landslide risk reduction in such a context. It is founded on the vision that there is often sufficient capacity within Governments to address such landslide issues without needing to incur significant additional costs by employing non-Government specialist staff. Such expenditure adds to debt and only suboptimally builds within-country capacity. The approach we present develops a cross-ministry Government management team, implements a community-based approach to landslide risk assessment, develops low-cost interventions through the social intervention fund and builds capacity through community knowledge transfer. We report on the successful pilot undertaken in the Skate Town community, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. IS - 2 JF - Journal of International Development AD - School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Poverty Reduction Fund, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies EP - 221 TI - Reducing landslide risk in areas of unplanned housing in the Caribbean - a Government-Community partnership model VL - 19 SP - 205 KW - chasm KW - mossaic KW - risk KW - slope-stability AU - Anderson, Malcolm AU - Holcombe, Liz AU - Williams, Donovan PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1336 ER -