ABSTRACT

Over the last few decades, the impact of landslides has increased in Latin America. However, there is a deficiency in the region of diagnostic studies on landslide hazards. This review analyzes the state of the art of studies on landslide hazard occurred in Latin America. A search for articles published from 2000 to 2019 was carried out in Scopus, WoS, SciELO, REDIB, and Redalyc. The search yielded 1,365 publications, which were purged obtaining 283 articles, analyzed through a database organized in four categories: general information, study area, research objectives, and methodology. We identified an increase in the number of publications from the year 2011. Seventy-five percent of the 20 countries in the region published papers on landslides that had occurred in these countries, mainly research focus on susceptibility and characterization, and a reduced number, on hazardousness, inventories, trigger factors and conditioning factors. The results suggest the opportunity to incorporate novel methods, tools, techniques, and inputs into research of landslides in Latin America. This review constitutes an analytical and critical contribution to the study of landslide hazards in the region and indicates the studies that are urgent to enforce its integral management in the region and in other intertropical zones.

摘要

在过去的几十年里，滑坡的影响在拉丁美洲有所增加。然而，该地区对滑坡灾害的诊断研究存在不足。本综述分析了拉丁美洲发生的滑坡灾害的研究现状。在 Scopus、WoS、SciELO、REDIB 和 Redalyc 中对 2000 年至 2019 年发表的文章进行了检索。搜索产生了 1,365 份出版物，这些出版物被清除获得 283 篇文章，通过分为四类的数据库进行分析：一般信息、研究领域、研究目标和方法。我们发现自 2011 年以来出版物的数量有所增加。该地区 20 个国家中有 75% 发表了关于这些国家发生的滑坡的论文，主要研究重点是敏感性和表征，减少数量，关于危险性、库存、触发因素和调节因素。结果表明有机会将新方法、工具、技术和投入纳入拉丁美洲滑坡研究。这篇综述对该地区的滑坡灾害研究做出了分析性的和重要的贡献，并指出了迫切需要在该地区和其他热带地区实施其综合管理的研究。