Article Critique

Article Critique

Introduction

Landslides can be defined as the down slope movement of soil, rock, or debris due to gravitational forces that can be triggered by heavy rainfall, rapid snow melting, slope undercutting, etc. (Crozier1999; Glade and Crozier 2005). Landslides occur in all geographic regions of the nation in response to a wide range of conditions and processes that include storms triggering earthquakes, and human activities. This article studies the effectiveness of community based disaster mitigation action through the execution and response of Government and other stakeholders to the program continued over a four year period. The intended audience of this article is different stakeholders who can support the community based intervention of landslide risk reductions such as government, education community, organizations or citizens.

Discussion

Landslide is a complex natural phenomenon, and in many cases its causes and mechanism does not very understand, so that when dealing with landslide problems, especially in the establishment of preventive measures and programs will have some problems. People often underestimate the social and economic impact of the landslide. Although some studies report provides the economic losses and casualties in the Europe some recent large-scale disasters, but it is difficult to reasonable evaluation of the direct and indirect losses caused by the landslide disaster in Europe. One of the main reasons is the landslides usually accompanied by other natural disasters occur simultaneously, such as storms, floods and earthquakes, it is generally not the landslide considered separately. In addition, the occurrence of a high frequency of small landslides, mainly the transportation network impact, it has been recognized that this will result in overall cost, but it is difficult to measure. Therefore, government agencies and policy makers need a good understanding of the landslide on the socio-economic importance.

For landslide risk reduction, incorporated approach of geotechnical, social and geological investigations were conducted, particularly to supply landslide hazard map forth development of community hardships along with the establishment of community-based landslide early warning system at the most in danger villages. However, the possibility of reducing the impact of these events on the elements exposed to its action. Mitigation is a complex process because many of their instruments, as well as prevention, are part of the economic and social development. It performs more efficiently through the ordering of human settlements planning and investment projects of industrial, agricultural or infrastructure. One of the primary activities in mitigation actions is strengthening local structures, including the educational community in local risk management and early warning systems, because each community faces a geographical and socio-cultural context different. At the same time, usually at the local level there is insufficient capacity and skills to address local risk management. This point is discussed by the author, in which he suggests that the government and fund raising organization should adopt the interventions.

The author has also discussed the benefits of MoSSaiC methodology. It has been observed that the major development agencies and the government intend to acquire an intervention for disaster mitigation planning. Such approaches are likely ...