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Landslides: Global Risk Preparedness

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Editors:
  1. Kyoji Sassa

    1. , UNITWIN Headquaters, Kyoto University Uje-Campus, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Badaoui Rouhban

    1. UNESCO, Paris, France

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  3. Sálvano Briceño

    1. Uji Campus, UNITWIN Headquaters Building, Kyoto Universitiy, Kyoto, Japan

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  4. Mauri McSaveney

    1. Lower Hutt, New Zealand

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  5. Bin He

    1. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  • Updated Information on Progress in Landslides Sciences

  • Landslides - Disaster Mitigation Presents its Achievements of major IPL projects in research and capacity building

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. IPL Programme

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. International Programme on Landslides

      • Kyoji Sassa
      Pages 3-24

  3. Joint Coordinating Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Early Warning of Landslides

      • Kyoji Sassa
      Pages 27-42

    3. Social Impact of IPL 101-1 “Landslide Investigation in Inca’s World Heritage, Machu Pichu, Peru”

      • Kyoji Sassa
      Pages 43-58

    4. Assessment of Global Landslide Hazard Hotspots

      • Farrokh Nadim, Christian Jaedicke, Helge Smebye, Bjørn Kalsnes
      Pages 59-71

  4. Projects by Word Centres of Excellence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. The Landslide Handbook-a Guide to Understanding Landslides: A Landmark Publication for Landslide Education and Preparedness

      • Peter Bobrowsky, Lynn Highland
      Pages 75-84

    3. International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Basin, Kyrgyzstan

      • Alexander Strom, Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov
      Pages 85-94

    4. SafeLand: Changing Pattern of Landslides Risk and Strategies for Its Management

      • Bjørn Kalsnes, Farrokh Nadim
      Pages 95-114

    5. Approaches to Landslide Risk Assessment in China

      • Yueping Yin
      Pages 115-131

    6. The Share of Landslides in the Occurrence of Natural Hazards and the Significance of El Niño in the Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera Negra Mountains, Peru

      • Vit Vilímek, Josef Hanzlík, Ivan Sládek, Milada Šandov, Nelson Santillán
      Pages 133-148

    7. Mechanism of Active Landslides in Flysch

      • Ana Petkovšek, Matej Maček, Matjaž Mikoš, Bojan Majes
      Pages 149-165

    8. A Numerical Modeling of Dip-slope Failure for Risk Assessment of Earthquake-induced Landslides

      • Akihiko Wakai, Keizo Ugai
      Pages 167-178

    9. Approaches for Promoting Landslide Early Warming in a Changing Climate Scenario

      • N. Arambepola, Senaka Basnayake, Rajinder Kumar Bhasin, Oddvar Kjekstad
      Pages 179-188

  5. Risk Assessment Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Dynamics and Prediction of Earthquake and Rainfall-induced Rapid Landslides and Submarine Megaslides

      • Kyoji Sassa, Bin He
      Pages 191-211

    3. Low-cost and Simple Early Warning Systems of Slope Instability

      • Ikuo Towhata, Taro Uchimura
      Pages 213-225

    4. Slope Deformation Caused by Water-level Variation in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China

      • Fawu Wang, Yuepin Yin, Zhitao Huo, Yeming Zhang, Gonghui Wang, Renjie Ding
      Pages 227-237
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This book presents the global landslide risk preparedness implemented through the International Programme on Landslides (IPL). IPL was initiated by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in 2002, and developed to a joint international programme by the IPL Global Promotion Committee (UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU and WFEO as well as ICL) through the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan. The materials consists of four parts: Outline of the International Programme on Landslides & IPL Global Promotion Committee; Achievements of major IPL projects in research and capacity building; World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoEs) and Landslide School Network; Key documents of IPL and ICL including Tokyo Action Plan, Application of ICL, IPL Projects, WCoEs and Landslide School Network

Editors and Affiliations

  • , UNITWIN Headquaters, Kyoto University Uje-Campus, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • UNESCO, Paris, France

    Badaoui Rouhban

  • Uji Campus, UNITWIN Headquaters Building, Kyoto Universitiy, Kyoto, Japan

    Sálvano Briceño

  • Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Mauri McSaveney

  • Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Bin He

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