land-man is a one-year asian-european partnership project which intends to realise both a new curriculum and a new distance learning model in the field of landslides management.
the emphasis in land-man will be on establishing methodologies, guidelines, and tools to develop open and distance learning (ODL) for the future improvement and harmonisation of education in landslides management. decision-makers, postgraduate students in environmental and earth disciplines, as well as professionals will benefit from the project. during the activities the clear intention is to use Internet based tools in order to strengthen the co-operation between partners and thus lay a stable, cross cultural, Internet oriented foundation for the future ODL-based educational model. at the end of the project, development of the ODL-based MODEL for asian-european landslides management education will be designed and based on specially assembled, multimedia products.
landslides management deals with situations that occur prior to, during, and after the landslide. the objectives of landslides management are: to reduce or avoid the human, physical and economic losses suffered by individuals, by the society, and by the country at large.
landslides management framework includes information on prediction and warning, risk assessment or vulnerability analysis, of landslide occurrence and rehabilitation plans for each event. recent technological advances have resulted in the creation of powerful tools, which empower us to deal effectively with crises, disasters and emergencies.
the landslides manager can effectively operate in the preparedness, response and relief stages of landslide events. his work ranges from efficient monitoring of potential disasters to the application of hazard analysis models that can be used to save life and property. disaster planning involves predicting the risk of a landslide and its possible impact. in the preparedness stage the landslides manager operates in risk assessment, vulnerability analysis through hazard mapping through the identification of various geographical, topographical and geo-climatic characteristics of an area; in the response phase monitoring of search and rescue, damage assessment and identification of alternate routes for communication. the landslides manager also collaborates in the phases of rehabilitation and relief.
post-graduate courses in this field are not available from any universities throughout the world.
all these considerations lead to the establishment of the fact that there is a clear need for the creation of the new curriculum of landslides manager.
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