Landslides in the Andes and the need to communicate on an interandean level on landslide mapping and research

Landslides in the Andes are some of the highest natural threats to society with single events killing up to several thousand people. Landslide mapping and landslide research became a more widely spread discipline in geosciences in the Andean countries. However efforts today by far do not match the t...

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Published inRevista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 321 - 327
Main Authors Hermanns, Reginald L, Valderrama, Patricio, Fauqué, Luis, Penna, Ivanna M, Sepúlveda, Sergio, Moreiras, Stella, Zavala Carrión, Bilberto
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Portuguese
Spanish
Published Asociación Geológica Argentina 2012
Subjects
GEOLOGY
GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Landslides
Climate change
Andes
Deslizamientos
Peligrosidad
Génesis
Prediction
Cambio climático
Triggering mechanisms
Predicción
Hazard
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Summary:Landslides in the Andes are some of the highest natural threats to society with single events killing up to several thousand people. Landslide mapping and landslide research became a more widely spread discipline in geosciences in the Andean countries. However efforts today by far do not match the threat and both more investigations and more mapping activities are needed to support decision makers in land use planning. In this communication we discussed five key issues that we suggest to focus on in upcoming years: Impact of climatic change on landslides occurrence, landslides susceptibility and hazard maps, prediction of megalandslides, seismically triggered landslides, and temporal spatial distribution of mud and debris flows potential.
ISSN:1851-8249