Asia: Landslide risks rise up agenda

As more buildings appear, the risk of a catastrophic collapse increases, writes Jane Qiu in Nature.

With extreme weather events becoming more common, land resources dwindling and urban development spiralling, landslides “are increasing in frequency, scope and destructive capacity”, says Sálvano Briceño, chair of the scientific committee at Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, an international research programme headquartered in Beijing.