Leader: Peter Bobrowsky

This project is creating a national landslide inventory and landslide hazard evaluations. It uses the historical record of landslides that have damaged communities and strategic infrastructure to focus the national hazard assessments. It targets 30% of the nation's population and key strategic elements of its infrastructure that are at risk from landslides. A suite of activities, centered in the two major areas of landsliding: Canadian Cordillera and St. Lawrence Lowlands, will contribute to decreased losses from landslides through the development of:

• tools/methodologies for assessing landslide hazards (geophysics, space and airborne remote sensing, spatial analysis);
• understanding landslide hazard through process models of landslide behaviour including input into management of landslide crises and emergencies;
• production of landslide hazard maps for regions and elements at risk;
• risk reduction through outreach.

The activities contribute to enhanced national emergency response and to Earth Science Sector international activities through the development of landslide risk mapping and mitigation methodologies.

For more information:

• Landslides

• Photographs related to landslides (Canadian Landscapes, Geological Survey of Canada)