应急管理学院学术报告：尼泊尔滑坡灾害风险教育与减灾演示模型

报告题目：Landslide hazards and risks communication using a physical model

报告人：Gopi Krishna Basyal, PhD. | Director, MHRAP Division | National Society for Earthquake Technology–Nepal (NSET) 

报告时间：2024年10月29日上午10:30

报告地点：郫都校区5B-410智慧教室

主办单位：88038威尼斯检测中心应急管理学院

报告人简介：

Gopi is the Director of the Multi Hazard Risk Assessment and Planning Division at the National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal (NSET), where he has worked since 2004. His expertise lies in managing spatial and non-spatial data, conducting multi-hazard risk assessments, and integrating risk-sensitive land-use planning. Gopi has contributed to community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) initiatives, emergency preparedness, and enhancing local authorities' capacity in disaster risk management. He has also played a key role in developing regional emergency response courses and simulation exercises tailored to local contexts. Gopi has participated in international research projects on hazards and risks, with a focus on landslide hazards. His work began with the Earthquakes without Frontiers (EwF) project, where he explored communication strategies for populations at risk in mountainous regions. He was also involved in post-earthquake landslide monitoring in Nepal following the 2015 earthquakes. Gopi is a recipient of the prestigious Action on Natural Disasters (AND) doctoral training program at Durham University, where his research focused on integrating knowledge for landslide risk reduction in rural Nepal. As part of his PhD project, Gopi conceptualized the live landslide demonstration using a physical model, where he trailed the model in communities and among experts for explaining the landslide process, its mechanism. This lecture will cover research outcomes focused on communicating landslide hazards and risks through live demonstrations for communities in rural Nepal.

报告内容简介：

Landslides in Nepal result in the large number of annual fatalities, a situation that is attributed to a combination: the monsoon climate, the steep unstable topography, and a large and often highly vulnerable rural population. As landslides often occur out of sight at night or in poor weather, knowledge around how and why they occur, and an associated clear understanding of the risks that they pose can be limited. The research presented is part of wider efforts to address this knowledge gap, with the ultimate aim of reducing the impacts of landslides. Based upon previous experiences of physical models (e.g., Shake Table demonstrations for earthquake safe construction) and participatory mapping as methods for engaging people in risk reduction, we present the development of a novel live demonstration model landslide, which simulates an actively failing slope. The demonstrator provides a way of visualising how landslides work, how the landscape may change, and provides a platform to consider the value of different forms of mitigation, such as monitoring or small-scale engineering interventions. We report findings from the use and refinement of the modelling approach, based upon its deployment on a series of landslide risk reduction projects. We conclude that this type of approach provides a valuable platform upon which landslide science and local knowledge can be contested by and with communities to improve landslide risk reduction in Nepal’s hill and mountain districts.