Abstract
Medellin has shown in recent years extraordinary weather conditions that triggered various slope instability processes. These processes resulted in economic and numerous human casualties. This document describes the most relevant processes analyzed by INTEINSA for public entities. The causes of processes and their relationship to uncontrolled human intervention in the city are presented.
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The authors wish to express their gratitude to all involved government agencies: “Empresas Públicas de Medellín”, “Secretaría de Obras Públicas de Medellín”, and “Sistema Municipal para Prevención y Atención de Desastres” for commissioning INTEINSA to develop the analysis of the most controversial landslides in recent years in Medellin.
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Gómez, E., Villarraga, M. (2013). Recent Landslides with Economical and Human Losses in Medellin City (Colombia). In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31337-0_13
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