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Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-Economic Dynamics on Landslides

Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-Economic Dynamics on Landslides

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Series: Disaster Risk Reduction

Environmental StudiesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 9811673136
ISBN13: 9789811673139
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 4 2022
Pages: 491
Weight: 1.96
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus regarding triggering factors for landslides, from rainfall or earthquake to claiming rapid urbanization, extreme population pressure, improper land use planning, illegal hill cutting for settlements and indiscriminate deforestation. This suggests that the occurrence or probabilities of landslides are shaped by both climate-related and non-climate-related anthropogenic factors. Among these issues, land use and land cover change or improper land use planning is one of the key factors. Further climate change shapes the rainfall pattern and intensity in different parts of the world, and consequently rainfall-triggered landslides have increased. These changes cause socio-economic changes. Conversely, socio-economic and lifestyle changes enhance inappropriate land use and climate change. All these changes in land use, climate and socio-economic aspects are dynamics in nature and shape landslide risks in Asian countries, where they are given serious attention by governments, disaster management professionals, researchers and academicians.

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