A prospective overview of Landslide in Afghanistan, mitigation, and prevention techniques to reduce fatality and property losses (original) (raw)

Abstract:-Landslide which is known as slump or slope failure is the movement of rock, soil, and debris or earths that result from the failure of the materials which make up the hill slope and are driven by the force of gravity. Generally all disaster can be divided into two parts which are natural and manmade disasters, which landslide can be counted as natural disaster, but all land failures are not natural, some of them are as result of human irresponsible activity on the ecosystems and environmental biosphere. For instance miners for extraction of underground resources make deep tunnels and after the finishing leave the area without any reformation, this types of irresponsible activities can make disasters. Northern province of Afghanistan (Badakhshan and Takhar) is prone to landslide and severe flooding during the rainy seasons, which occurrence of previous landslides caused many fatalities, displacements and property losses. So for reducing the disasters and land failure we need mitigation and prevention throughout of making dam, drainage systems, ditches, drainage tunnels, removal works and plantation, forestation and retaining walls, these systems of prevention have been accommodated in other countries and recognized effectual. In this paper natural disasters, types of landslides and its effect on human life, biodiversity and resources are discussed, management of landslide, prevention techniques, mitigations are illustrated.