Toward negotiated mitigation of landslide risks in informal settlements: reflections from a pilot experience in Medellín, Colombia

Urbanization continues to drive informal settlement growth on land exposed to hazards such as landslides, increasing risk among low-income populations. Though technical and social ways of managing landslide risk are known, in developing countries these measures are often difficult to implement becau...

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Main Authors: Harry Smith, Françoise Coupé, Soledad Garcia-Ferrari, Helena Rivera, Wilmar Edgardo Castro Mera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2020-03-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss1/art19/

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