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Bridges, ports, and power stations across island nations are built with conventional standards that fail during combined seismic events, storm surges, and landslides, cutting off entire island populations from emergency relief.

Landslides regularly cut off remote mountain roads, blocking ground vehicles from delivering critical blood units to rural hospitals.

As young generations move to cities, historic mountain farming terraces are abandoned, leading to unchecked soil erosion and landslides.

Seasonal mountain landslides routinely break main water pipelines, cutting off municipal drinking water to mountain towns for weeks.

Create affordable slope monitoring, drainage, building standards, relocation alternatives, and community warning systems for rapidly growing hillside settlements.

Develop localized alerting systems that account for terrain, landslides, poor connectivity, and short warning windows in remote mountainous settlements.

The absence of robust, context-adapted solutions for nature-based solutions for landslide risk reduction on steep slopes in tropical regions creates cascading risks across interconnected human and natural systems. Key missing elements include durable performance, low lifetime cost, and governance arrangements capable of sustaining impact beyond pilot stages.

Current approaches to real-time flood and landslide early warning systems for informal hillside settlements either underperform under variable field conditions or generate externalities that undermine long-term sustainability and equity. Closing the gap requires coordinated advances in science, systems design and enabling institutions.

Current approaches to nature-based solutions for landslide and erosion control on steep agricultural lands either underperform under variable field conditions or generate externalities that undermine long-term sustainability and equity. Closing the gap requires coordinated advances in science, systems design and enabling institutions.