Good Practices of Landslide Hazard Monitoring as a Support for Sustainable Space Development – Examples from Poland

Abstract

The southern Poland has fragmented structure of land parcels, highly relief area, and the geological structure conducive to landslides. There are numerous examples of landslides. The Landslide Protection System is a project of national importance, which is being implemented in several stages. The basic objective of the SOPO project is to identify and document all landslides and areas potentially threatened by mass movements in Poland and establish a system of in-depth and surface monitoring. This provides a starting point for mapping landslide susceptibility and, at a later stage, for developing a system of forecasting, assessment and mitigation of landslide hazards in Poland, i.e. for limiting to a considerable extent the damage and destruction caused by landslide development.