Landslide Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment, Preparedness and Early Warning in South Asia: Integrating Meteorology, Landscape and Society
Lead Research Organisation:
British Geological Survey
Department Name: Engineering Geology
Abstract
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Planned Impact
Hazard specific risk information is often disregarded by actors with sectoral agendas (e.g., health, employment, housing) if not first contextualised and translated in terms of clear relevance to their sector (CDKN 2014). Evidence points to failure of early warning systems (EWS) at the point of dissemination/communication and response (IFRC 2012) and the need for science to become more relevant to decision makers (UNISDR 2015). These issues, plus the need for sustainability, necessitate sound stakeholder engagement at the heart of LANDSLIP. Our stakeholder platforms will function as an instrument for knowledge sharing, joint learning, and capacity building. These platforms enable more effective and rapid uptake and importantly scaling up of research findings into policies, practices and programmes, as the contextual realities and barriers are anticipated and addressed right from the beginning of LANDSLIP. Stakeholders will be drawn from diverse, connected interest groups, themes, sectors, organisations (e.g. public, para-statal, private, NGO, community, cooperative) from geographical areas across India and linking to stakeholders in Afghanistan. Multi-stakeholder platforms/fora bring in diversity, democracy, learning, multiple-views and perspectives and play a key role in the selection of the pilot study sites, identification of critical issues as well as collection and analysis of data and information and influencing the decision makers to help validate the research results. Progress in impact (knowledge spread, new insight and real risk reduction) will be measured throughout the project with, where necessary, feedback into the project to enhance progress and cement its legacy.
Our stakeholder strategy ensures a common understanding on concept, rationale, principles, strategy, approach and activities related to the design and implementation of LANDSLIP. This ensures that our research is demand/need driven, enabling effective co-production of knowledge and delivering outcomes that are fit for purpose, of appropriate scale, language, format and content, are understandable and useable, and match with concerns and priorities of diverse user groups.
Academic impacts include cutting-edge developments in meteorology, landslide hazard and risk assessment/EWS, and delivery of innovative technologies while educating a new generation of scientists. The research capacity, knowledge and skills of Indian researchers will be enhanced by embedment in UK partner institutes.
Economic impacts include insights that will be of direct interest to governance, insurance, reinsurance, geo-environmental and construction consultancy sectors, while the societal impacts are best embodied by the enhancement of public services and resulting improvement to the quality of life, health and well-being of communities affected by landslides in a multi-hazard framework. The work will build on existing practices, procedures and methodologies and the Consortium will exploit new developments to the benefit of private and public sector customers globally.
Collaboration and dialogue between producers of landslide risk information and users represents an opportunity to bridge current gaps in knowledge about how information can be used to make strategic decisions. We will also consider the translation of landslide risk information "towards information that is understandable and actionable by different kinds of users: in other words, risk knowledge" (UNISDR 2015), prioritising translation and interpretation of landslide risk information into clear "recommendations or plans of action to be taken up by decision-makers" (CDKN 2014).
CDKN (2014) Risk-Informed Decision-Making: An Agenda for Improving Risk Assessments.
IFRC (2012) Community Early Warning Systems...
UN (2015) Global Assessment Report on DRR: Making Development Sustainable.
UNISDR (2015) Concept Note for Working Session of UN World Conference on DRR (Sendai)
Our stakeholder strategy ensures a common understanding on concept, rationale, principles, strategy, approach and activities related to the design and implementation of LANDSLIP. This ensures that our research is demand/need driven, enabling effective co-production of knowledge and delivering outcomes that are fit for purpose, of appropriate scale, language, format and content, are understandable and useable, and match with concerns and priorities of diverse user groups.
Academic impacts include cutting-edge developments in meteorology, landslide hazard and risk assessment/EWS, and delivery of innovative technologies while educating a new generation of scientists. The research capacity, knowledge and skills of Indian researchers will be enhanced by embedment in UK partner institutes.
Economic impacts include insights that will be of direct interest to governance, insurance, reinsurance, geo-environmental and construction consultancy sectors, while the societal impacts are best embodied by the enhancement of public services and resulting improvement to the quality of life, health and well-being of communities affected by landslides in a multi-hazard framework. The work will build on existing practices, procedures and methodologies and the Consortium will exploit new developments to the benefit of private and public sector customers globally.
Collaboration and dialogue between producers of landslide risk information and users represents an opportunity to bridge current gaps in knowledge about how information can be used to make strategic decisions. We will also consider the translation of landslide risk information "towards information that is understandable and actionable by different kinds of users: in other words, risk knowledge" (UNISDR 2015), prioritising translation and interpretation of landslide risk information into clear "recommendations or plans of action to be taken up by decision-makers" (CDKN 2014).
CDKN (2014) Risk-Informed Decision-Making: An Agenda for Improving Risk Assessments.
IFRC (2012) Community Early Warning Systems...
UN (2015) Global Assessment Report on DRR: Making Development Sustainable.
UNISDR (2015) Concept Note for Working Session of UN World Conference on DRR (Sendai)
Publications
Alvioli M
(2018)
Topography-driven satellite imagery analysis for landslide mapping
in Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk
Bornaetxea T
(2022)
Terrain visibility impact on the preparation of landslide inventories: a practical example in Darjeeling district (India)
in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Budimir M
(2022)
Development of forecast information for institutional decision-makers: landslides in India and cyclones in Mozambique
in Geoscience Communication
Budimir M
(2022)
Developing forecast information for institutional decision-makers
| Title | GSI video of LANDSLIP landslide early warning initiative |
| Description | 7 minute video describing the LANDSLIP landslide early warning initiative. This video has been created to publicize the LANDSLIP project at the 2020 International Geoscience Congress in Delhi (November 2020) at the Geological Survey of India stand |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Only just developed. Impact is developing |
| Title | Impacts of LANDSLIP on landslide forecasting in India |
| Description | 19 May 2022. Interview with LANDSLIP partner Geological Survey of India discussing the key advances brought by LANDSLIP in landslide forecasting in India. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | . |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgeB6B4TmU |
| Title | LANDSLIP Overview Video |
| Description | This 5' video summarises the achievements and outputs for the five year (2016-2022) LANDSLIP (Landslide multi-hazard risk assessment, preparedness and early warning in South Asia: Integrating meteorology, landscape and society) research project, funded by UKRI under the SHEAR programme. LANDSLIP's main objective is to develop a prototype landslide forecast system in two test sites of India, Darjeeling/East Sikkim and Nilgiris. The LANDSLIP consortium consists of 36 scientists in nine organizations (India, UK, Italy). LANDSLIP contributed to better landslide multi-hazard risk assessment and early-warning, working with national and district authorities for better preparedness for hydrologically controlled landslide and related hazards, on a regional to catchment spatial scale and a seasonal to daily temporal scale in India. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Couple hundred views. Some contacts resulted from people who saw the video |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjnj2GKHUx8 |
| Description | LANDSLIP has helped to develop new knowledge and raise awareness of needs and processes for developing a regional Landslide Early Warning System. An important aspect of LANDSLIP's legacy will be the connections (MoUs etc) that have now been made amongst interdisciplinary partners that will enable new research and application of research to occur. The partnership has helped support the Geological Survey or India in the development of its future roadmap for a National Landslide Forecasting Centre at Kolkata. |
| Exploitation Route | LANDSLIP has helped to develop new knowledge and raise awareness of needs and processes for developing a prototype regional Landslide Early Forecasting System in the data poor regions of Darjeeling and Nilgiris Districts, with trialing of these methods now planned (as legacy) for five other regions of India. LANDSLIP has established connections (e.g., via MoUs) amongst our interdisciplinary partners that will enable new research and application of research to occur. The LANDSLIP partnership has helped support the Geological Survey of India in the development of better establishing its knowledge base, skills understanding and future roadmap for a National Landslide Forecasting Centre at Kolkata. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | http://landslip.org/ |
| Description | LANDSLIP has helped to develop new knowledge and raise awareness of needs and processes for developing regional Landslide Early Forecasting Systems in data-poor regions, with a focus on two districts of India, Darjeeling and Nilgiris. The LANDSLIP partnership has been key to supporting the Geological Survey of India (a LANDSLIP partner) in its knowledge base, skill assessment needs and future roadmap so that they could successfully receive government funds and develop a National Landslide Forecasting Centre at Kolkata, thus assuring legacy. This centre will use project findings to further develop data, models, protocols and procedures for prototype regional landslide early forecasting systems in other districts of India. Another important aspect of LANDSLIP's legacy will be the connections (MoUs, etc.) that have now been made amongst interdisciplinary partners that will enable new research and application of research to occur. In addition to peer-reviewed publications, the key learnings from LANDSLIP have been captured in a suite of accessible knowledge products, covering meteorological forecasts, landslide forecasts, landslide data, the development of a landslide forecast bulletin, and institutional roles in landslide forecasting. It is anticipated that these 'Knowledge Products' will be of interest to all interested in landslide hazard risk management, forecasting, early warning, anticipatory action and disaster risk reduction. Quotes from some of our LANDSLIP stakeholders include the following (all from April to May 2022): "The local communities especially in the Darjeeling hills region stand to benefit a great deal from LANDSLIP's positive work and contribution in terms of credible regional scale early warning system, as well as awareness about the various aspects of landslides." "LANDSLIP has proven to be a shining example for the donor community, especially the bilateral and multilateral funding organisations in terms of not only the outcomes, but also the meticulously designed, iteratively implemented processes, legacy documents etc. that assure lasting success and sustainability. The knowledge and experiences generated by LANDSLIP project at all levels have been commendable and noteworthy." "The positive results achieved by LANDSLIP in terms of regional scale early warning systems for landslides, on experimental basis, are in a way without any parallel and unprecedented." - Wg Cdr (retd) Praful Rao, Save the Hills "LANDSLIP has promoted interdisciplinary research empowered with national and international cooperation. It has brought in an integrated view and solutions that could contribute in building regional scale early warning of landslides"- Dr. Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh, Provost, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham "LANDSLIP has helped the nodal agency [GSI] to start a collective, interdisciplinary and multi-institutional endeavour for developing regional LEWS in a country where data scarcity, informal institutional frameworks, overlapping work domains, complex failure domains, and very high landslide risks exist in multiple terrains." "LANDSLIP will be completing a full circle of research, development, prototype deployment, and transfer of legacy programs. LANDSLIP has helped support GSI in the development of its future roadmap for a National Landslide Forecasting Centre at Kolkata, ensuring a smooth and seamless legacy transfer." - Dr Saibal Ghosh, Geological Survey of India |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Creation and approval of a ten year vision for a Landslide Forecasting Centre in India led by Geological Survey of India (GSI) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Geological Survey of India (GSI) has created a new 10 year vision document for a landslide early warning Centre which has been approved by Ministry to start experimental LEWS in ten new states in different terrains. The creation of this vision is based, in part, on the learnings of GSI gained through the LANDSLIP project. Several GSI staff have received training and guidance, and participated in workshops/ activities to co-develop a prototype regional EWS. Landslide forecasting models for our two India pilot study areas have been running over the summer 2020 monsoon and Geological Survey of India (GSI) have been preparing a prototype draft landslide early forecasting bulletin (and SOPs) which has been issued (mostly daily) to our two case study site regions, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu and Darjeeling, West Bengal. These experiences have helped shape their vision which includes a section about skills required to undertake an EWS. |
| Description | Darjeeling and Nilgiris District: Esablished protocol for receiving daily landslide bulletin from Geological Survey of India (GSI) and providing landslide occurence information. This has included training workshops, training manual, landslide tracker methodology forms and landslide tracker app available in GooglePlay as open access. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | As part of the LANDSLIP research grant, the Geological Survey of India have established a protocol, which includes pre and post monsoon workshops training and evaluation, with local officials (Darjeeling and Nilgiris) receiving a daily landslide bulletin and for providing landslide occurrence information via a landslide tracker methodology. |
| Description | Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Innovation Programme (ERIIP) |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/P00914X/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 04/2017 |
| Description | SHEAR Studentship Cohort (SSC) with Imperial leading |
| Amount | £1,657,857 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/R007799/1 |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Title | Weather Pattern definitions (as u- and v- component wind composites at 850-hPa) for the optimal set of weather patterns and their associated daily historical classifications between 1979 and 2016 |
| Description | Weather Pattern definitions (as u- and v- component wind composites at 850-hPa) for the optimal set of weather patterns and their associated daily historical classifications between 1979 and 2016 are available for download form PANGAEA: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.902030 |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Have been applied to India and helped develop longer-term (up to 14 days) landslide forecasts for the the Geological Survey of India and have helped to develop a proto-type landslide forecast for India in a number of case study areas. |
| URL | https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.902030 |
| Title | Weather pattern definitions for India and their daily historical classifications (1979 to 2016) |
| Description | Mean u- and v- component wind fields at 850-hPa are provided over India for a set of 30 objectively derived weather patterns, which were generated by k-means clustering of daily (1200 UTC) reanalysis fields from ERA-interim between 1979 and 2016. The weather patterns are defined on a 1 x 1 degree resolution grid, which covers the area from 62 degrees west to 98 degrees west and 2 degrees north to 37 degrees north. The boundary coordinates represent the central positions of the outer grid points. Also provided are daily historical weather pattern classifications covering the same period, where the observed weather patterns are valid at 1200 UTC daily. The observed weather pattern on each day is given as a number from 1 to 30, which matches up to the weather patterns defined in the gridded data set. Column 1 of this dataset gives the date and column 2 of this dataset gives the observed weather pattern classification. Both datasets were generated as part of the LANDSLIP (Landslide multi-hazard risk assessment, preparedness and early warning in South Asia integrating meteorology, landscape and society) project which had two UK grant funders: NERC and DFID (Grant numbers: NE/P000681/1 and NE/P000649/1) under the programme SHEAR. This work and some of its contributors (Robert Neal, Joanne Robbins and Rutger Dankers) were also supported by the Met Office Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) India Programme as part of the Newton-Bhabha Fund. More information on how these data were created and their suggested use in future research is provided in the associated paper published in the International Journal of Climatology. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Described in supplement: Neal, R et al. (2020): Deriving optimal weather pattern definitions for the representation of precipitation variability over India. International Journal of Climatology, 40(1), 342-360, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6215 |
| URL | https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.902030 |
| Description | Geological Survey of India and the British Geological Survey |
| Organisation | Geological Survey of India |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Through the grant, the consortium have facilitated knowledge exchange for GSI staff through training, fieldwork and a programme of workshops and writeshops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Geological Survey of India have provided staff time to contribute to the knowledge exchange activities. These workshops and writeshops have provided content which has enabled the consortium to develop research outputs and knowledge pieces. GSI have provided staff resource in kind. |
| Impact | multi-disciplinary collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Indian Meterological Department and Geological Survey of India |
| Organisation | Government of India |
| Department | India Meteorological Department |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | MoU has been developed and with Geological Survey of India around data and skills sharing for landslide forecasting. the research Team (mainly UK MO and BGS) have supported the development of this relationship and advocated the need to work togtehr to ensure legacy of the landlside early warning system. |
| Collaborator Contribution | IMD have enaged with the project consortium by attending meetings and liasing with GSI to establish a working relationship around landslide forecasting. |
| Impact | Meterology, Geology. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | Application: Landslide Tracker |
| Description | The Landslide tracker application allows volunteers to share the location of landslides and rains across the world. The volunteers can upload the location, event date, images, comments and answer questions. The volunteers can also update the information. The application presents the available events to all the users through the map and list interface. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The landslide tracker app is now being used by NGOs and District/Sub-district Disaster Officials in Darjeeling and Nilgiris Districts. The landslide tracker app software is by Amrita University with content developed by the LANDSLIP consortia. |
| Title | Webtool: Lanslide Tracker |
| Description | This webtool for landslide tracker has the same questions as an app, and allows users to upload information related to landslides and rainfall, along with seeing the output of the landslide they or others have used. Software developed by Amrita University. Methodology and questions developed through frequent exchanges between Amrita University, GSI, KCL, BGS, and two NGOs (Keystone and Save the Hills). |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Used during the Monsoon 2020 season by the NGOs and District Officials in Darjeeling and Nilgiris to gather landslide data and enhance the Indian National Inventory (and thus improvements to the LANDSLIP landslide forecast bulletin). |
| URL | http://landslides.amrita.edu/ |
| Description | "Characterising landslide processes using limited data: case study on East Sikkim, India" at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (4-8 May 2020) by Renée Heijenk, Bruce Malamud, Claire Dashwood, Joanne Wood, Christian Arnhardt, and Helen Reeves |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at EGU |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18520 |
| Description | A talk or presentation - Presentation ""Rethinking the engagement between physical and social sciences in developing an EWS: a case study from the LANDSLIP projectw" at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (7-12 April 2019) by Anshu Ogra, Amy Donovan, and George Adamson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk or presentation - Presentation ""Rethinking the engagement between physical and social sciences in developing an EWS: a case study from the LANDSLIP projectw" at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (7-12 April 2019) by Anshu Ogra, Amy Donovan, and George Adamson. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-17089.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-17089.pdf |
| Description | Attendance at Regional Workshop on mainstreaming climate change in disaster risk with reference to glacial lake outburst flood and forest fires in Sikkim Himalayas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendence and presentation of LANDSLIP activity at workshop organized by the Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority, Land Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Government of Sikkim. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://voiceofsikkim.com/2018/05/10/two-day-long-sdma-workshop-on-climate-change-over-glof-and-fores... |
| Description | Conference Presentation "Strengthening Government Efforts in Comprehensive Landslide Documentation and Risk Knowledge Landslide Paper and Mobile Tracker" by KR Viswanathan and G Ramesh at "Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SMDS) IX Conference" on 12 December 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | About 60 people attended the Conference Presentation "Strengthening Government Efforts in Comprehensive Landslide Documentation and Risk Knowledge Landslide Paper and Mobile Tracker" by KR Viswanathan and G Ramesh at "Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SMDS) IX Conference" on 12 December 2020. This sparked requests afterwards for the landslide app and landslide methodology from a number of participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://smds.mountaininitiative.in/smds-ix/smds-ix-programme.html |
| Description | Conference Presentation: "Knowledge co-production in an international consortium: The role of STS in Interdisciplinary projects" by Anshu Ogra, Amy Donovan, George Adamson at the 4S EASST conference 20 August 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference Presentation: "Knowledge co-production in an international consortium: The role of STS in Interdisciplinary projects" by Anshu Ogra, Amy Donovan, George Adamson at the 4S EASST conference 20 August 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://easst.net/easst-4s-2020/ |
| Description | Exploring the potential of mobile?phones and apps for the crowdsourcing of data and hazard communication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A virtual workshop to harness learnings and recommendations from across NERC SHEAR programme of how mobile phones (including use of smartphone apps) have been used, or could be better used, by citizens to support disaster management. The workshop generated lots of discussion which has been collated and written up as a peer review paper (accepted by journal, but not yet published). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | First Darjeeling stakeholder engagement workshop - 18th January 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Workshop was designed to promote and inform Darjeeling stakeholders about the LANDSLIP project and highlight the aims and challenges of the project. They also provide the first communication with the stakeholders and helped to identify the stakeholder's concerns around landslides in their region(s) and current landslide EWS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Geospatial world press article 'Exploring new frontiers in India's geological applications' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article highlighting the prototype landslide forecasting system developed with Geological Survey of India in conjunction with LANDSLIP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.geospatialworld.net/article/exploring-new-frontiers-in-indias-geological-applications/ |
| Description | Hindustan Times: 'Exploring the gap between policy and action in disaster risk reduction'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article highlighting the prototype landslide forecasting system developed with Geological Survey of India in conjunction with LANDSLIP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/climate-change/exploring-the-gap-between-policy-and-action... |
| Description | In conversation with Saibal Ghosh, Director (Geology), GHRM Center, Geological Survey of India. GeoCon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article highlighting the prototype landslide forecasting system developed with Geological Survey of India in conjunction with LANDSLIP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | India Today news article: 'India is developing landslide early warning system: How does it work and why it's a challenging task' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article highlighting the prototype landslide forecasting system developed with Geological Survey of India in conjunction with LANDSLIP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/explained-what-is-the-landslide-early-warning-system-being-d... |
| Description | India-UK workshop: Science for disaster and emergency risk management 29-30 August 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | India-UK workshop: Science for disaster and emergency risk management 29-30 August 2019 Arnhardt C. presented a presentation about "New tools for rainfall-induced landslide forecasting" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | International Knowledge Sharing Webinar - 17th May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 17th May 2022, the LANDSLIP team hosted an International Knowledge Sharing Webinar. A total of 141 people across the globe attended to hear from the entire LANDSLIP team what the project has learned and achieved in the past five years. Then, partners from the National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting, Amrita University, Save the Hills, and the Geological Survey of India, spoke about the impact of LANDSLIP on their work and their plans for the future. The webinar concluded with reflections on achievements and next steps by senior representatives from the Geological Survey of India, the National Disaster Management Authority and the UK Research and Innovation, India. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.landslip.org/news/home.html |
| Description | LandAware MayDay: Stakeholder engagement and communication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Various presentations and dialogue activities with members of the LANDAWARE science community to share experiences and good practice with regard to landslide monitoring and forecasting. Knowledge exchange and awareness of LANDSLIP project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.landaware.org/mayday-2021/ |
| Description | Landslide Decider Forecast Application Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Met Office led a 2-hour training event which described the weather pattern forecasting application and then went into detail about the various code components used to produce the medium-range landslide forecasting application. This was to illustrate the code structure, where parts of the code should be altered (i.e. logos) and where updates (e.g. the addition of new pilot areas) could be included if desired. The run through of the code was beneficial for all parties and enabled questions to be asked and iron out any confusion. Following this training the code base was shared with both partners so that they could look through and experiment with the code themselves. This proved to be successful as NCMRWF demonstrated on 5th March an example of the code being implemented using NCMRWF-driven weather pattern forecasts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meetings with Senior Officials in Nilgiris District resposible for disaster management [25 & 26 Feb 2019] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 1.0 hour [25 Feb 2019] with Nilgiris District Collector and 1.5 hour [26 Feb 2019] with sub-collector Coonoor, presentation/discussion/detailed feedback dialogue. These two dialogues consisted of four people from the LANDSLIP team meeting with these senior level regional policy makers to do with disaster management in Nilgiris District. The purpose of the two meetings was to do the following: • Give an overview and update on LANDSLIP progress • To give examples from other countries and India as to what is available for early warning bulletins and what LANDSLIP can achieve • [Majority of time spent here] Get feedback on a draft bulletin example from LANDSLIP for landslide early warning. • To better understand the officials in the early warning chain of communications going from the district level to sub-district level. This meeting increased awareness of the project's aims, and increased the project's understanding of who (and how) a proto-type bulletin landslide warning might be used, along with extensive feedback on the format of the bulletin, and what would be useful to change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Met office training on weather patterns |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In a follow up to the training given on 11/02/2021, the Met Office led a 1.5 hour training event which described the methodology behind identifying high risk weather patterns related to landslide occurrences in our two study regions. The Met Office explained how this high risk weather pattern list can be updated in the future subject to new landslide events being added to the database. The Met Office also explained how this process could be applied to other regions in the future. The code to do this high risk weather pattern identification has been handed over to GSI, marking the last piece of code handover related to Landslide Decider. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | NERC SHEAR webinar with the title: An introduction to objectively derived weather patterns for India and their forecasting applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In September, gave NERC SHEAR webinar with the title: An introduction to objectively derived weather patterns for India and their forecasting applications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | NERC SHEAR webinar with the title: on Italy's landslide early warning system |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | NERC SHEAR webinar on "Italy's landslide early warning system", given by the Italian Civil protection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://meet17585946.adobeconnect.com/pgp19fud3znf/ |
| Description | National/State/Regional stakeholder engagement dialogues from 5 September to 8 November 2018 in Darjeeling, Nilgiris, and Delhi. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A total of 33 stakeholder engagement dialogues were had from 5 September to 8 November 2018 with the main objective to better understand the institutional structure for flows of disaster-related warnings from national to state to district levels. These dialogues were generally 30-60 minutes with policy actors and professional practitioners at national, state, and district levels. The dialogues were held in Delhi, Darjeeling, and Nilgiris; the latter two are main study areas for the LANDSLIP research. Main outcomes of these meetings were a much better understanding of the institutional flow of information from national to state to district levels, and vice-versa. Another outcome was increased awareness of LANDSLIP aims and objectives at these different levels for landslide early warning and preparedness, and at the district level further engagement set up for the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Newspaper article in the Hundustan Times describing the weather pattern research that has been published |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper article in the Hundustan Times describing the weather pattern research that has been published: https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/new-set-of-weather-patterns-to-help-predict-floods/story-PwOLc2INfW5zu5XmCmc6uM.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/new-set-of-weather-patterns-to-help-predict-floods/story-... |
| Description | Panel presentation and discussion "Landslides: The Next Frontier of Hazard Early Warning" at Understanding Risk 2020 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This session provided an overview of landslide early warning systems from both a technical and operational/practical perspective, drawing on experiences and knowledge across the globe and case studies of Nepal and India from the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience programme (SHEAR). The format encouraged discussions and tailored sharing of knowledge aligned with participants' interests and needs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://understandrisk.org/landslides-the-next-frontier-of-hazard-early-warning/ |
| Description | Participation in Integrated Mountain Initiative on Discourse on Current Disaster, 27 March 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation of LANDSLIP research project in the virtual event organised by Integrated Mountain Initiative on Discourse on Current Disasters, on 27 March 2021 and interactions with the State Government officials, notably that of Sikkim and Uttarakhand and apprising them of the various elements of LANDSLIP project together with the updated progress. About 60 participants attended the virtual meet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | People News Chronicle 'India to get new landslide warning system soon, prototype testing underway' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article highlighting the prototype landslide forecasting system developed with Geological Survey of India in conjunction with LANDSLIP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://peoplenewschronicle.com/india-to-get-new-landslide-warning-system-soon-prototype-testing-und... |
| Description | Post Monsoon Workshops with Senior Officials in Darjeeling District [23 February 2021] and Nilgiris District [8 March 2021] resposible for disaster management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two post-monsoon workshops organized by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) in the framework of the LANDSLIP project on 23 February 2021 (Darjeeling) and 8 March 2021 (Nilgiris), on the on the experimental application of prototype regional Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) in both districts. The key objectives of the Post-Monsoon workshop were to obtain comprehensive feedback from the State Disaster Management Authorities (SDMA) as well as from District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) in both districts, on experimental application of prototype landslide early warning bulletins that were issued by GSI during 2020 monsoon, from 27th July 2020 to 29th January, 2021 and to obtain a detailed assessment on the collection and transmission of landslide and rainfall related information. The workshops were attended by Geological Survey of India (GSI) senior officials and their landslide team, other LANDSLIP colleagues, the respective district collectors, senior district officials, and sub-district officials to do with hazard management. Each workshop featured on feedback from district officials on the experimental landslide early warning bulletin being implemented by GSI and LANDSLIP, along with training, and the collection (via an app and landslide tracker methodology) of landslide and rainfall data. Major outcomes included very useful feedback from district officials on pragmatic changes to the LANDSLIP bulletin (e.g., bulletin) and training (e.g., more videos needed) along with a better understand of district official needs and expectations when receiving the early warning bulletins from the national level. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Poster presented a meeting of the Met Office Science Advisory Committee in January 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presented a meeting of the Met Office Science Advisory Committee in January 2019, titled: Hydrometeorological hazards: Improving short- to medium-range landslide forecasting in the UK and India (Joanne Robbins, Robert Neal, Rutger Dankers, Claire Dashwood and Helen Reeves). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Pre Monsoon Workshops with Senior Officials in Darjeeling District [29 June 2020] and Nilgiris District [15 July 2020] resposible for disaster management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two pre-monsoon workshops organized by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) in the framework of the LANDSLIP project on 29 June 2020 (Darjeeling) and 15 July 2020 (Nilgiris), on the experimental application of prototype regional Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) in both districts. The key objectives of the Pre-Monsoon workshop were to introduce a District Level landslide manual we have developed, the experimental prototype landslide early warning bulletins to be launched over the monsoon 2020, and to summarize a methodology for collection (by local officials) of landslide and rainfall related information, along with feedback on all of these methodologies and items. The workshops were attended by Geological Survey of India (GSI) senior officials and their landslide team, other LANDSLIP colleagues, the respective district collectors, senior district officials, and sub-district officials to do with hazard management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation ""Landslide domains in data-poor regions: case study on East Sikkim, India" at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (7-12 April 2019) by Renée Heijenk, Bruce Malamud, Claire Dashwood, Christian Arnhardt, Joanne Wood, and Helen Reeves |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation ""Landslide domains in data-poor regions: case study on East Sikkim, India" at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (7-12 April 2019) by Renée Heijenk, Bruce Malamud, Claire Dashwood, Christian Arnhardt, Joanne Wood, and Helen Reeves . https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-464-1.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-464-1.pdf |
| Description | Presentation ""Using expert elicitation to assess or forecast natural hazards: a systematic review" at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (7-12 April 2019) by Shreyasi Choudhury, Bruce D. Malamud, and Amy Donovan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation ""Using expert elicitation to assess or forecast natural hazards: a systematic review" at European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (7-12 April 2019) by Shreyasi Choudhury, Bruce D. Malamud, and Amy Donovan. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-11324.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-11324.pdf |
| Description | Presentation "Assemblage Theory and the future of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in Kalimpong, India" by Peter McGowran at UKADR (UK Alliance for Disaster Research) 2019 (Northumbria University, Newcastle (17-19 July 2019)). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation "Assemblage Theory and the future of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in Kalimpong, India" by Peter McGowran at UKADR (UK Alliance for Disaster Research) 2019 (Northumbria University, Newcastle (17-19 July 2019)). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation "Narratives of vulnerability: how institutions shape everyday perceptions of a disaster" by Anshu Ogra, Amy Donovan and George Adamson at UKADR (UK Alliance for Disaster Research) 2019 (Northumbria University, Newcastle (17-19 July 2019)). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation "Narratives of vulnerability: how institutions shape everyday perceptions of a disaster" by Anshu Ogra, Amy Donovan and George Adamson at UKADR (UK Alliance for Disaster Research) 2019 (Northumbria University, Newcastle (17-19 July 2019)). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation "Using expert judgement and expert elicitation to assess or forecast natural hazards: a systematic review" by Shreyasi Choudhury, Bruce D. Malamud, Amy Donovan at UKADR (UK Alliance for Disaster Research) 2019 (Northumbria University, Newcastle (17-19 July 2019)). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation "Using expert judgement and expert elicitation to assess or forecast natural hazards: a systematic review" by Shreyasi Choudhury, Bruce D. Malamud, Amy Donovan at UKADR (UK Alliance for Disaster Research) 2019 (Northumbria University, Newcastle (17-19 July 2019)). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at "New Dimension for Natural Hazards", AOGS/EGU Conference held in Tagaytay, the Philippines February 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at "New Dimension for Natural Hazards", AOGS/EGU Conference held in Tagaytay, the Philippines February 2018 - ) "A Framework for the National/Regional Warning System for Rainfall-Induced Landslides: Examples of Implementation in Italy" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at "New Dimension for Natural Hazards", AOGS/EGU Conference held in Tagaytay, the Philippines February 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at "New Dimension for Natural Hazards", AOGS/EGU Conference held in Tagaytay, the Philippines February 2018 - ) "Spatial Autocorrelation Changes in Multi-temporal SAR Images for Automatic Event Landslides Detection, the LANDSLIP Project" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at 2020 WCSSP India Annual Science Meeting, Delhi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Jo Robbins presented Landslide Decider poster at WCSSP India Annual Science Meeting (attended by several Indian partners including: IMD, NCMRWF, MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences), IITM (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology); NCCR (National Centre for Coastal Research); INCOIS (Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services) and NRSC (National Remote Sensing Centre) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at AOGS 2019, 28 Jul to 2 Aug 2019 in Singapore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Rossi, M. presented at AOGS 2019, 28 Jul to 2 Aug 2019 in Singapore. Session proposal: SE13 - Landslide Identification, Prediction, and Monitoring Using Multi-Disciplinary Emerging Technologies and Early Warning Systems in a Multi-Hazard Framework. Rossi, M. presented Talk: Landslide Early Warning: Lessons Learned After 10 Year Experience in Italy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2019/doc/aogs2019_prgbook.pdf |
| Description | Presentation at ESA Living Planet Symposium - Milan 13-17 May 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ESA Living Planet Symposium - Milan 13-17 May 2019 (https://lps19.esa.int/NikalWebsitePortal/living-planet-symposium-2019/lps19). Mondini, A. presented Poster title: Use of SAR amplitude images for photo-interpreted rapid landslide detection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://lps19.esa.int/NikalWebsitePortal/living-planet-symposium-2019/lps19 |
| Description | Presentation at Regional Conference On Geomorphology - Athens 19-21 September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Regional Conference On Geomorphology - Athens 19-21 September 2019 (https://rcg2019.com/). Mondini, A. presented Talk title: USE OF MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR AMPLITUDE IMAGES FOR RAPID LANDSLIDES DETECTION. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://rcg2019.com |
| Description | Presentation on LANDSLIP at the workshop of the World Metrological Organisation High Impact Weather (HIWeather) project in Beijing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In November, Jo presented on LANDSLIP at the workshop of the WMO High Impact Weather (HIWeather) project in Beijing, the title was: Landslide Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment, Preparedness and Early Warning in South Asia: Integrating Meteorology, Landscape and Society (Robert Neal, Joanne Robbins and Rutger Dankers (Met Office), With input from several others including Ashis Mitra and A. Jayakumar (NCMRWF), George Adamson (KCL), and members of the Monsoon Working Group (Reading)). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: "The key to long-term sustainability of anticipatory action: Mainstreaming into national systems" by Mirianna Budmir at the Global Dialogue Platform [10 December 2020] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation: "The key to long-term sustainability of anticipatory action: Mainstreaming into national systems" by Mirianna Budmir at the Global Dialogue Platform [10 December 2020] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://live.anticipation-hub.org/global-dialogue-platform |
| Description | Press Information Bureau Government of India - Early warning system for landslides |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Geological Survey of India issued press release to media about prototype landslide forecasting system developed through LANDSLIP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1777174 |
| Description | Press: Earthquakes to landslide: GSI's plan to mitigate impact of natural calamities during pandemic (October 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Earthquakes to landslide: GSI's plan to mitigate impact of natural calamities during pandemic Online Newspaper Financial Express 10/14/2020 Geological Survey of India chalks out plan to mitigate impact of natural calamities during the pandemic period Online Newspaper APM News "Landslides: As a nodal agency for landslides in the country, GSI has initiated experimental Regional Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) in Darjeeling and Nilgiris districts. GSI has indigenously developed and showcased this technology in an ongoing collaborative international research program- LANDSLIP, after working with a large group of Indian and European researchers from the field of Landscape, Climate and Social dynamics. Apart from LEWS, GSI has also completed about 85% of the total target (3.57 lakh square km) of the National Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (NLSM) Project, GSI is generating landslide susceptibility maps and a national landslide inventory for all the landslide prone areas of India (covering 4.2 lakh sq km). Detailed landslide hazard zonation work at identified and selected sectors with greater geoscientific inputs are being prepared for facilitating implementation of relevant structural/ non-structural landslide mitigation measures." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/earthquakes-to-landslide-gsis-plan-to-mitigate-im... |
| Description | Press: GSI testing regional landslide early warning models (August 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | GSI testing regional landslide early warning models Online Newspaper India Education Diary GSI testing landslide early warning system in Darjeeling and Nilgiris Online Newspaper Outlook The news Scroll Geological Survey of India starts testing of early warning system for landslides Online Newspaper Financial express GSI testing landslide early warning system in Darjeeling and Nilgiris Online Newspaper News 18 India Example of one of the above quotes: "The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has announced that it is testing the regional Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) in the West Bengal's Darjeeling district and in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. In a statement, the GSI said that the system would be tested for validation at both of these locations for a few monsoon years before it is made operational. The statement quoted Director of GSI's GHRM Division Dr Saibal Ghosh as saying that following the footsteps of some developed countries which have such types of warning systems, India would also carry extensive on-ground testing as well as validation of the LEWS models. This testing would go on for a few years, and applications from other states which are prone to landslides would also be accepted, before the system is made operational, he said. The technology, he added, has been developed by GSI as part of an ongoing collaborative research programme called LANDSLIP, which includes a number of Indian and European researchers in the fields of Landscape, Climate and Social dynamics." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/geological-survey-of-india-starts-testing-of-earl... |
| Description | Regional stakeholder workshop in Kotagiri (Nilgiris), India, December 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Regional stakeholder workshop in Kotagiri (Nilgiris), India. This half day (including lunch) stakeholder workshop presented aims/objectives of the research project, along with about 2/3 of the time for questions and answers. There was detailed discussion. The stakeholders included key regional and state officials (policy makers), hazard managers, journalists, many professionals. The workshop resulted in further engagement with regional level people and interest in working with the research grant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/docs/Landslip_Press_Release_Nilgiris.pdf |
| Description | Research News Article on the Indian Weather Pattern work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research News Article on the Indian Weather Pattern work: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2019/weather-patterns-and-rainfall-over-india |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2019/weather-patterns-and-rainfall-over-india |
| Description | Series of Interviews of LANDSLIP with District Level Hazard Related Officials in Darjeeling, India, April 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | April 2021 A series of nuanced in-depth interviews were organised by LANDSLIP with selected representatives in Darjeeling District (at different levels), on the basis of a detailed and carefully crafted questionnaire, to ascertain their perspectives of the lessons and experiences on the experimental regional early warning bulletin/system for landslides in Darjeeling and aspects related to the collection and organisation of landslide occurrence information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Session with multiple LANDSLIP speakers. Session title "Landslides: The next frontier in hazard early warning" at the Understanding Risk Forum 2020. 3 December 2020. Emma Bee, Mauro Rossi, Mirianna Budimir, Claire Dashwood, Ale Mondini, Saibal Gosht, Anshu Ogra, Rob Neal, Christian Arnhardt. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 30 people from DRR community attended one hour session with multiple talks/discussion from LANDSLIP consortia members at the International Understanding Risk Forum 2020 session "Landslides: The next frontier in hazard early warning" on 3 December 2020 held virtually. Presenters from LANDSLIP included Emma Bee, Mauro Rossi, Mirianna Budimir, Claire Dashwood, Ale Mondini, Saibal Gosht, Anshu Ogra, Rob Neal, Christian Arnhardt. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ur2020.org/agenda/session/440122 |
| Description | Stakeholder Workshop with Disaster District Officials in Study Area [18 February 2019] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 2.5 hour presentation/discussion/detailed feedback workshop. This workshop consisted of four people from the LANDSLIP team meeting with 11 district and sub-district level practioners and policy makers to do with disaster management in Darjeeling District plus one local university professor. The purpose of the meeting was to do the following: • Give an overview and update on LANDSLIP progress • To give examples from other countries and India as to what is available for early warning bulletins and what LANDSLIP can achieve • [Majority of time spent here] Get feedback on a draft bulletin example from LANDSLIP for landslide early warning. • To better understand the officials in the early warning chain of communications going from the district level to sub-district level. This meeting increased awareness of the project's aims, and increased the project's understanding of who (and how) a proto-type bulletin landslide warning might be used, along with extensive feedback on the format of the bulletin, and what would be useful to change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Stakeholder workshop in Darjeeling, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of this January 2017 half day workshop (including lunch discussion) held in Darjeeling, India, was to present the LANDSLIP project to about 30 regional stakeholders in the Darjeeling region, and state. We presented the main aims and objectives of the project, and then had questions and answers, to better understand the needs and queries of our proposed early warning system. Stakeholders ranged from tea planation owners, experts in hazard management, to poiitical (district collector). The stakeholder workshop resulted in significant discussion, increased understanding of the grant's aims in the region, and opened door for later interviews and sharing of data, along with requests for involvment in co-design of the project. There was also a press release associated with this event link given below. And myself and Helen Reeves were interview which resulted in local news coverage in the Calcutta Telegraph (19 January 2017) and NorthEast Today (20 January 2017). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/docs/Landslip_Press_Release.pdf |
| Description | Two hour Discussion Meeting 1 June 2021 of LANDSLIP (including GSI) with Darjeeling and State officials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 01 June 2021 Interaction with the District Disaster Management Officials in Darjeeling - through participation of LANDSLIP project (GSI officials and other LANDSLIP colleagues) in the Briefing Session organised by GSI, prior to the start of the issue of Experimental Regional Landslide Early Warning bulletins for the 2021 monsoon. Apart from others, about 15 representatives from the State Government/ district administration participated in the virtually organised, two hour plus event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Two hour Discussion Meeting 11 June 2021 of LANDSLIP (including GSI) with Kalimpong Officials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 11 June 2021 A virtual meeting was organised with the District Officials in Kalimpong to mark the launch of the experimental regional landslide early warning bulletin/system in Kalimpong. This activity was based on the positive results obtained under LANDSLIP in Darjeeling and the Nilgiris. LANDSLIP colleagues (including GSI officials) and Darjeeling district officials, participated. Total Number of participants 20 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Various training held at CNR, Italy regarding aspects of landslide modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A series of training sessions lasting one week in January 2018, July 2018, October 2018, January 2019 and June 2019. these were given by CNR, Italy and included participants frim within the LANDSLIP consortium and primarily the Geological Survey of India. Aspects of data preparation, landslide modelling, and system implementation were covered. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Water Balance Model training by British Geological Survey to Geological Survey of India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A 1.5hr training for GSI on "Trigger threshold based on BGS water balance model" was provided on 14th September 2021. The training was attended by 5 GSI engineers . The training was intended to familiarise and upskill GSI engineers on the WBM basics and parameterisation to enhance their capacity in handling similar models in near future. Training covered the general steps to be considered for modelling, water balance model concept, unsaturated soil concept introduction, BGS water balance model methodology and input parameter estimation, developing trigger thresholds, limitations and key considerations, and recent applications in Kuala Lumpur and Nilgiris. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshop "The Peer-Review Process and Some Advice from an Editor on Publishing" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop by KCL on "The Peer-Review Process and Some Advice from an Editor on Publishing" to about 60 academic students, mostly postgrade, and staff at Amrita University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop "Visualisation of Qualitative and Quantitative Data" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop "Visualisation of Qualitative and Quantitative Data" of 2 hours to Amrita Students and Staff to about 60 participants, with pre-activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | co-convener of the session "Landslide early warning systems: monitoring systems, rainfall thresholds, warning models, performance evaluation and risk perception", in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, 12 April 2018, Vienna, Austria. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Stefano Luigi Gariano co-convener of the session "Landslide early warning systems: monitoring systems, rainfall thresholds, warning models, performance evaluation and risk perception", in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, 12 April 2018, Vienna, Austria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26985 |