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Abstract
<p>This is a qualitative study of perspectives from community members on landslides in Bududa, Uganda. Interviews with community members reveal their perceptions of the causes, effects, and aid response to landslides. We employ a 'structural fieldwork' approach to explain community member's thoughts and experiences using critical macro-comparative perspectives relating to political ecology. This research brings attention to how large-scale unequal relationships in trade and international aid increase landslide vulnerability and there are ineffective relief efforts in a particular locale. Linking environmental degradation in Bududa to political, economic, and social factors provides a broader context in which to view risk from landslides in this community, as a critical case in demonstrating how economic globalization benefits some at the expense of others.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Landslides, unequal exchange, disaster, NGOs, political economy<strong></strong></p>
Highlights
IntroductionNatural hazards such as landslides, floods, severe weather events, earthquakes, droughts, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions, and wildfires have caused significant losses in human lives and livelihoods and the devastation of economic and social infrastructure (UNISDR 2014; UNEP 2014)
Communities throughout the world are facing disasters on an unprecedented scale
The semi-structured interviews conducted in the District reveal that community members generally define landslides as an event where soil slips off or is cut off from the hill and moves downward
Summary
Natural hazards such as landslides, floods, severe weather events, earthquakes, droughts, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions, and wildfires have caused significant losses in human lives and livelihoods and the devastation of economic and social infrastructure (UNISDR 2014; UNEP 2014). Natural hazards include events like storms and landslides, and social, economic, and political factors create vulnerabilities that turn these events into disasters Environmental factors play a leading role in our current understanding of disaster risk, as ecosystem alterations, such as deforestation, deplete natural barriers to hazards, including landslides (e.g., Blaikie 1985; Roberts and Parks 2007; UNEP 2014). Landslides, which represent the most widespread geological event globally (WHO 2015), displace entire communities, endanger the integrity of ecosystems, erode infrastructure and citizens' livelihoods, and damage lives (Kitutu et al 2011; Mafabi and Butagira 2013; Misanya 2011; NEMA 2010; UNDP 2014; UNEP 2014; UNISDR 2014; Wanzusi 2013)
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