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Landslide Controlling Factors in Catchments with High Deforestation

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Many tropical mountain regions experience rapid land cover change and natural hazards like landslides. In this work, landslide controlling factors in two Andean catchments with different land cover dynamics were analysed using rare event logistic regression with replications. Our results show that topographical factors alone cannot explain the observed landsliding pattern. We suggest that major changes in soil properties and hydrology after deforestation play a role in accelerating landslide activity.

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Acknowledgments

Funding for this research was provided by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS, Brussels). This study was supported by the Belgian Science Policy grant SR/00/133 FOMO and the CUD-PIC project ‘Strengthening the scientific and technological capacities to implement spatially integrated land and water management schemes adapted to local socio-economic and physical settings’. The authors would like to thank Pr. D. Alvarado and Ing. P. Borja (Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador), engineers of CGPaute (Ecuador), Ing. L. Jerves (Celec – Hidropaute, Ecuador) and Dr. A. Molina (KUL) for their precious help on the field.

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  1. Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Louis Pasteur 3 boîte L4.03.08, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Guns Marie & Vanacker Veerle

  2. Fund for Scientific Research – FNRS, Rue d’Egmont 5, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

    Guns Marie

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  1. Geological Survey of Italy, ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmen, Rome, Italy

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  2. ICL - International Consortium on Landsl, Florence, Italy

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  3. Kyoto University Uji-Campus, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

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Marie, G., Veerle, V. (2013). Landslide Controlling Factors in Catchments with High Deforestation. In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31325-7_30

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