Abstract
India has witnessed humongous growth in the frequency of landslides in the past 40–50 years. The process of urbanization, concretization, and climate change has imposed various challenges for Indian cities; out of which landslide is one. Landslides inflict substantial damage to human lives, infrastructure, and the environment. The book chapter tries to identify the relevance of land use and land cover as major determinants for triggering natural disasters; however, this book chapter identifies the role of geotechnical characteristics in landslide susceptibility. The next section of the book chapter addresses various cases from Indian cities: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh deciphers the phenomenon of landslides majorly caused by soil erosion; the classical case of Western Ghats in India that is prone to repeated landslides. Moreover, the case of Jharkhand has been triggered in the last few years due to mining activities. Lastly, the chapter embarks on mitigation by the adoption of resilient strategies for landslide susceptibility and envisions the approach for reducing landslides in the near future.
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Patel, A.B., Bakshi, V. (2024). Determining Land Induced Factors for Landslide Susceptibility in Indian Cities. In: Panda, G.K., Shaw, R., Pal, S.C., Chatterjee, U., Saha, A. (eds) Landslide: Susceptibility, Risk Assessment and Sustainability. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56591-5_9
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