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© 2025 Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries et al. Mapping exposure to landslides is necessary to mitigate risk and increase resilience. Exposure maps can be constructed from building databases, akin to seismic risk assessments, but there has been little investigation of the predictive relationship between building damage from landslides and risk to human life. Our study investigates this relationship globally and in Nepal (47 213 and 5664 landslides, respectively). While a correlation exists for nationwide totals (R2 Combining double low line 0.75), it is negligible for individual events (R2 Combining double low line 0.025). It is important to not construct landslide exposure maps from building datasets alone, else building damage may be inadvertently prioritised over human lives in disaster planning.
Author(s): Van Wyk De Vries M, Dunant A, Johnson AL, Harvey EL, Li S, Arrell K, Baniya J, Basnet D, Basyal GK, Bhotia ND, Dadson SJ, Densmore AL, Dong TB, Kincey ME, Oven K, Puri A, Rosser NJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Year: 2025
Volume: 25
Issue: 6
Pages: 1937-1942
Online publication date: 11/06/2025
Acceptance date: 12/03/2025
Date deposited: 25/06/2025
ISSN (print): 1561-8633
ISSN (electronic): 1684-9981
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
URL: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1937-2025
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-25-1937-2025
Data Access Statement: Both datasets used in this analysis, DesInventar and BiPAD, are available online from UNDRR (https://www.desinventar.net/DesInventar/, UNDRR, 2025) and the government of Nepal (https://bipadportal.gov.np/, Government of Nepal, 2025). The unique names and namecode definitions are available in our Supplement.
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