Managing landslip risk – improving practice

Technical Abstract

This report scans key issues which surround the management of landslip risk – such as technical knowledge, professional practice, regulatory processes, and changing risk environments.

The present system that links research through to practice is increasingly complex with significant discontinuities that limit the development and implementation of best practice. The report’s authors suggest that a more co-ordinated approach is required to ensure improved risk outcomes.

This, in turn, requires better alignment and co-ordination of landslip risk management practices. The report presents an integrated risk management framework within which the various organisations involved, from pure research and technical assessment, through to land use planning, can consider how to best integrate their activities. The integrated risk management framework provides organisations with options for improving engagement and co-ordinating effects that need to be further explored.