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Reducing landslide risk in communities: evidence from the Eastern Caribbean

Rapid urbanisation leads to increased landslide risk in developing countries. Ad hoc local solutions, such as household-built retaining walls often fail, as do top-down policies. Paper describes physics-based modelling of dynamic slope hydrology in communities in Eastern Caribbean demonstrates. It shows mechanisms by which small retaining walls fail and that surface-water drainage is more effective means of slope stabilisation. Successful implementation of drainage project in one community provided sufficient evidence for additional government investment in other communities. With growing evidence base, method was subsequently taken up by other governments and agencies [REF3b: MoSSaiC].