ETL involvement in Himalayas landslide project
ETL has been part of a successful bid for funding to work on environmental risk in the Indian Himalayas.
This new project investigates the ETL Technology and Inequality research theme, exploring how technologies can respond to and transform underlying social relations, working with partner communities and government stakeholders in the flood and landslide areas of the northern state of Uttarakhand.
Central to the project is the co-development of landslide models that respond to the priorities of marginalised communities in the Joshimath - Rudraprayag - Rishikesh catchment. By integrating modelling technology with community knowledge, this project provides local people with a voice in disaster risk governance arrangements that hitherto have overlooked their knowledge, expertise, priorities and attitudes. ETL is part of an interdisciplinary team in this project, led by colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and funded by UKRI NERC.