Thousands of landslides occur globally each year, killing scores of people and causing significant damage to property and infrastructure.
However despite extensive research, the ability to forecast when and where a landslide will occur, especially in tectonically active regions, remains a significant scientific challenge.
This is because extreme events like earthquakes can cause the numbers of landslides to increase for many years after the fact; a phenomenon that has only recently been recognised.
A new project aims to begin addressing the issue of variations in landsliding through time, and will go some way to providing communities and governments with the type of information that could ultimately save thousands of lives.
The EXCESS project, led by the University of Plymouth, will start in February 2024, and is being funded through a grant of £778,812 from the Natural Environment Research Council.
It will build on existing research that has looked into the causes and effects of landslides all over the world, including helping to compile a 30-year database of monsoon-triggered landslides in Nepal.
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