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.
This book comprises 21 chapters divided into three major sections
highlighting the effect of climate change on landslide incidence with
the influence on vegetation and socio-economic aspects. The sections
address how climate change and extreme events have triggered landslides.
The advances in geospatial techniques with the focus on land use and
land cover change along with the effect on socio-economic aspects are
also explored.
