Series: 2021 Resilience Learning Month
Geohazard Risk Reduction: High-tech and Community Approaches
9 December 2021

The session presented case studies of landslide risk reduction in the Kyrgyz Republic and Pakistan. CWER presented the recently approved Landslide Risk Management Sector Project.

The project featured the use of GIS and earth observation for site selection, feasibility study, and landslide monitoring. The PRM urban and DRM unit presented the recently completed Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project and the ongoing National Disaster Risk Reduction Fund Project. It included the successful implementation of community-based solutions for hazard risk management.

Event Summary

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Opening Opening Remarks Steven Goldfinch
Presentation 1 ADB Role in Pakistan Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction - High-tech and Community Approaches Recent Practices on "Geo-Hazards Risks Management"
Asif Turangzai, ​​​​​​​Uzma Altaf
Presentation 2 Earth Observation and GIS for Landslide Risk Assessment and Monitoring: Case Study of the Landslide Risk Management Sector Project in Kyrgyz Republic
Miguel Coulier
Questions and Answers

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Event Coordinator/s

  • Nathan Rive

ADB Organizer/s

  • Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

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Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Disaster Risk Management