Community-scale slope stability assessment of urbanisation scenarios in North Quito, Ecuador.

ABSTRACT: Quito is home to nearly three million inhabitants, many of whom live in informal settlements on the steep soil-mantled slopes that surround the city. Within Quito's multi-hazard environment, the combination of rapid urban expansion onto already landslide-prone slopes-often without adequate urban planning or provision of services-and rainfall associated with the subtropical highland climate, generates a risk to life and infrastructure from landslides. Landslide hazard assessment and mitigation is challenging due to the large area involved, complexity of urban slopes and sparsity of data. In this study, conceptual models of characteristic slope geometries, soil properties and urban features are developed based on three landslide-prone communities in North Quito. These models form the basis f

SUBMITTER: Hen-Jones R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12764695 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature