Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides

Association of climate change to landslide vulnerability and occurrences in Bhutan.- A framework for assessing landslide risk in hilly terrains.- Landslide dam outburst in Myagdi, Nepal: early warning and preparedness key to minimizing disaster.- Landslide risk along the Sichuan-Tibetan railway.- Landslide, agricultural vulnerability and community initiatives: a case study in south-east part of Bangladesh.- Landslide, land-cover and land-use changes and its impacts in Nepal.- Comparison between two different methods applied to define rainfall thresholds for landslide forecasting in Idukki district of Kerala, India.- Prediction of amount of rainfall on landslide day using artificial neural network for Bhutan.- Measuring landslide susceptibility of Phuentsholling, Bhutan using novel ensemble machine learning methods.- Application of RBF and MLP neural networks integrating with rotation forest in modelling landslide susceptibility of Sampheling, Bhutan.- Use of Probabilistically Generated Scenario Earthquakes in Landslide Hazard Zonation: A Semi-Qualitative Approach.- Predicting the landslide susceptibility using ensembles of Bagging with RF and REPTree in Logchina, Bhutan.- Assessing social vulnerability to landslide disasters in Chittagong City, Bangladesh.- The vulnerability of human population to landslide disaster: A case study of Sikkim Himalayas.- Integration of Socio-economic dynamics and Communities' Resilience to Landslides in Swat valley, Pakistan.- Refugee Camps at Landslide Risk: Studying Mitigation Measures.- Introducing Japanese Landslide Warning System to Sri Lanka: Analyzing the Social Differences for Successful Technology Transfer.- Land Cover Changes and Landslide Risk in Sri Lanka.- Urban-rural connectivity for forest management and landslide risk reduction: case of Japan.- Slope stabilization using soil nails, practice and construction realities: a case study on the construction of soil nailed wall along Phuentsholing-Thimphu highway, Bhutan.-

Prof. Raju Sarkar is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Delhi Technological University (DTU). Prior to rejoining his parent organization, DTU, Prof. Sarkar was working as a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, College of Science and Technology, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan, under the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India Deputation to Bhutan. During his tenure in Bhutan, he established the Research Centre for Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Development Studies and worked as founding coordinator and head of the research centre. Prof. Sarkar also worked as a team leader to start the new undergraduate programme in engineering geology in the Royal University of Bhutan. He has more than 23 years of teaching, research, consultancy and industrial experience.  At present he is also the chair of the Commission on Education and Outreach and the co-chair of the Commission on Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Strong Ground Motion of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) - IUGG. He has vast experience of working in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas region both at government and community levels. He has published a number of original research articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as books, book chapters and proceedings of international societies. Prof. Sarkar has worked as principal investigator (PI), co-PI, and co-I in a number of research projects funded by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF-UK), the World Bank (WB), the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS-UK), the Druk Holding Investment-Royal Government of Bhutan (DHI), and the Ministry of Environment and Forests-Government of Assam (MoEF). He has a keen interest in geohazards risk management, landslides, seismology, geotechnical engineering, construction engineering, community resilience and other, allied fields of study.

Prof. Rajib Shaw, a Japanese