Landslide Evo: Citizen science for landslide risk reduction and disaster resilience building in mountain regions

Landslide EVO brings together experts in environmental hazards, engineering, social science, citizen science, and computational modelling to improve disaster resilience in Western Nepal. Nepal is one of the most landslide-prone countries in the world.

The remote Karnali river basin in Western Nepal suffers from a complex interplay of natural hazards. These include hydrologically-induced landslides and cascading hazards, such as flooding. Citizen science enables the generation of new and higher resolution data, supporting and facilitating better decision making on managing landslide risk. The use of citizen science and new sensor technology enhances resilience to hydrological hazards at the community level, while also enriching the observational database.