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Lisa Seiler
Medellín, Colombia
Inform@Risk
Strengthening the resilience of informal settlements to slope erosion.
2019-2022
Strengthening the resilience of informal settlements to landslide hazards by linking early warning systems, web technologies and landscape planning in participatory processes - case study Medellín, Colombia (BMBF). [more]
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Christian Werthmann
International Conference
Dangerous Landscapes - Re-Thinking Environmental Risk in Low-Income Communities
Climate change and rapid urbanization will expose more and more humans around the globe to natural hazards. Future informal urbanization activities in dangerous terrain will increase overall vulnerabilities especially for flooding and landslides in the fast growing regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. [more]
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Christian Werthmann
Medellín, Colombia
Re-habitar la montaña
In the past century, nearly a thousand people have died in various landslide events in the steep, unstable hills surrounding Medellín, Colombia. Most of these disasters have occured in low incomecommunties of unplanned, non-formal settlements with substandard housing. [more]
