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Landslides are NZ’s deadliest natural hazard. Why does it still tolerate the risk?

  • Written by Tom Robinson, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, University of Canterbury
Landslides are NZ’s deadliest natural hazard. Why does it still tolerate the risk?New Zealand Herald/Dean Purcell/Getty Images

The recent deaths of eight people in two New Zealand landslides has left the public searching for answers. Some questions will be technical, about what failed and why.

But one should surely sit above the rest: why do we keep accepting the human and financial cost of this risk?

While it might be assumed...

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