Professor Harry Smith was invited to the Seventh World Urban Forum in Medellin, Colombia in 2014. There he established contacts with Universidad Nacional de Colombia that later gave rise to three important projects: Mitigation of landslide risks in informal settlements in Medellin Landslide risk management strategies through the development of community-based infrastructure in Latin American […]
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Resilience or Resistance? Negotiated mitigation of landslide risks
Communities in informal settlements around Medellin or São Paulo live at constant risk of losing their homes to landslide. Built on steep slopes, with limited infrastructure, a severe rainstorm can cause devastation to these communities. The research team worked to empower local communities to assess their own risks and take mitigating action to make their […]