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Forest cover change trajectories and their impact on landslide occurrence in the tropical Andes

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Guns, Marie Vanacker, Veerle [UCL]

Tropical mountain regions are prone to landslide hazards. Given the current land pressure with increasing occupation of steep uplands, landslide hazards are expected to increase in the near future. Understanding the factors that control landslide hazards is therefore essential. Rare event logistic regression allows us to perform a robust detection of landslide controlling factors. This technique is here applied to the tropical Andes to evaluate the impact of dynamic land cover changes on landslide occurrences. Land cover change trajectories (i.e. dynamic evolution of land cover through time) were specifically included in the probabilistic landslide analysis. While natural physical processes such as slope undercutting by rivers and failure of oversteepened slopes are important in this tropical mountainous site, landslides are increasingly associated with human activities. The data show that land cover trajectories are associated with landslide patterns. In this humid mountainous site, forest degradation does not lead to a measurable increase in landslide occurrence. However, few years after forests are converted to pastures, a rapid decline of slope stability is observed. Land cover conversion from forest to pasture permanently reduces slope stability. It is assumed that major changes in soil properties and hydrology induced by the vegetation conversion play a role in accelerating landslide hazards.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2013
Language Anglais
Journal information "Environmental Earth Sciences" - Vol. 70, no. 7, p. 2941-2952 (2013)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 1866-6280
e-issn 1866-6299
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
Keywords Landslide patterns ; Controlling factors ; Rare event logistic regression ; Land cover change ; Deforestation ; Andes
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Bibliographic reference Guns, Marie ; Vanacker, Veerle. Forest cover change trajectories and their impact on landslide occurrence in the tropical Andes. In: Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 70, no. 7, p. 2941-2952 (2013)
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