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Landslides are destructive and deadly, so communities and individuals need to be alerted to areas of risk. The continuing goal of the "Landslides in Canada project" is to produce a series of landslide maps and a Canada wide database that will be of benefit to land planners and homeowners. (PAS project)

Canada Landslide Project

Landslides threaten the safety and well-being of Canadians in all provinces and territories. With over 600 deaths and annual economic losses conservatively estimated at $125 million, landslides are Canada's most destructive geological hazard. The Canada Landslide Project provides the geoscientific and geospatial information and expertise necessary to assist in the mitigation of landslide hazards in Canada.

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Approach

The Canada Landslide Project is addressing these objectives through:

• Coordination of national efforts
• Provision of critical data to the client community through a client-maintained national landslide database / inventory
• Provision of digital landslide hazard maps for regions and elements at risk
• Development of methodologies and tools for hazard assessment, tailored to mitigate landslide risk
• Contribution to the understanding of landslide hazard through regional analyses and process models of landslide behaviour, under diverse environmental settings, as a basis for development of mitigation strategies
• Contribution of expert knowledge of landslide processes and behaviour in response to sudden-onset landslide crisis events and emergencies across Canada
• Contribution to the reduction of risk in communities by outreach activities designed to increase awareness of landslide hazard and mitigative strategies in the general public, and the planning and geoscience communities.

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Outcomes

Improvement of Canada's understanding of landslides and minimize the loss of life and economic costs incurred from landslides.

Participants

Project researchers are engaged in a variety of activities individually, in partnership with provincial representatives and collaboratively with academia, the private sector and other federal agencies.

More information

For more information about this project, please visit the Canada Lanslide Project Web site.