Landslide hazard assessment methodology in Georgia

Abstract Geological hazards always cause a threat to the important part of the population, make complicated their engineering‐agricultural activities and damage the infrastructure facilities. In the 21 st century, protection of population and safe operation of infrastructure objects became significant social‐economic and geo‐ecologic problem. These problems gain even more actuality for mountainous countries, when on the overall backdrop of climate change and earthquake activation, and within the pressing conditions of wide‐scale human activities, negative impacts caused by disasters including human losses gains increasingly irreversible character. Georgia belongs to the most complicated region among the world's mountainous countries with development scale and recurrence of geological disaster processes, and with negative impacts to agricultural lands and infrastructural facilities. Landslide hazard assessment is an important step towards landslide hazard and risk management, where several methods are used: Qualitative, Quantitate, Spatial Multi Criteria decision‐making et al.