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A progress report of the M141 IPL project is presented. Conceptual and applied analyses bearing on engineering geological, hydrogeological mapping, and zoning of vulnerability to mass wasting were conducted for nearly a 16,000-km2 area of the Jemma River basin, central Ethiopian highlands. Work was aimed at the specific modification of current methodology and its practical field testing, user-oriented information dissemination, and training of Ethiopian staff in geo-hazard assessment. Also, environmental protection studies and water resources management to improve food and sanitary security were provided. An alternative, conceptual energy-process and land unit-oriented and satellite images implementing method was developed to substitute for the inadequacy of information by regular field check and regular inventory of risky phenomena. It is necessary to implement a novel, complex systems paradigm to tackle vulnerability and risks in couplings of nature and human systems. This is discussed together with emphasis on user-oriented communication and building of geo-risk warning and management systems based on bottom-up, contextual approach.
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This research has been cosponsored by the IPL-M141 project, the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport within the project “Geographical Systems and Risk Processes in Context of Global Changes and European Integration” No. MSM 0021620831, and by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the frame of Czech Republic Development Cooperation.
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Zvelebil, J., Šíma, J. & Vilímek, V. Geo-risk management for developing countries—vulnerability to mass wasting in the Jemma River Basin, Ethiopia. Landslides 7, 99–103 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-009-0191-2
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