Dear Elisa Bozzolan and co-authors,

Thank you for the submission of your very interesting manuscript “Including informal housing in slope stability analysis – an application to a data-scarce location in the humid tropics”.

As you know, two reviewers have provided detailed reviews and comments, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. One reviewer recommended minor revisions, the other major revisions, considering the comments of the reviewers and reading again your manuscript, I decided for minor revisions. I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript and ask you to consider especially all the aspects, which were not clear to the reviewer, and thus which would need additional explanations of the research design, methods or settings.

Please be aware, that this is most likely the last possibility for you to change and improve the manuscript. Thus, I suggest that you carefully go through the manuscript again and improve everything, which you still find useful to improve (even if the referees have not pointed it out).

Would you please also provide an ‘author’s reply’ to the reviewers (feel free to use the same words that you used in what you have already uploaded). Please can you also include a track changes document between the old manuscript and the new one (you can include this as part of your ‘author’s reply’).

I look forward to seeing the next version of your manuscript which I will not send out for further review, but rather, will make the decision myself, assuming no major items come up in the revised manuscript for which I need outside reviewers to aid me in my decision.

Regards,
Margreth Keiler
[NHESS Editor]
[Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern]

Dear Elisa Bozzolan and co-authors,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript “Including informal housing in slope stability analysis – an application to a data-scarce location in the humid tropics” can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

You will soon be contacted by the journal publication office for the preparation of the final version of your manuscript. Please respond promptly to the requests of the publication office, as this will condition the time of your publication, and read carefully any copy-editing recommendations that they make. Let me remind you that final publication of your paper on the journal web site is subject to the payment of the appropriate service charges. Also, do not forget that as an open-access journal you can freely distribute your paper once it is published.

I take this opportunity to thank you and your co-authors for having selected Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) for the publication of your scientific work. I look forward to receiving further contributions to our journal from you and your co-authors.

Regards, Margreth Keiler
[NHESS Editor]
[Associate Professor of Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risk Research, University of Bern]