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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

Volume 1 Sendai Landslide Partnerships and Kyoto Landslide Commitment

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Editors:
  1. Kyoji Sassa

    1. International Consortium on Landslides, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Matjaž Mikoš

    1. Faculty of Civil & Geodetic Eng, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  3. Shinji Sassa

    1. Port and Airport Research Institute, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Yokosuka City, Japan

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  4. Peter T. Bobrowsky

    1. Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

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  5. Kaoru Takara

    1. Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  6. Khang Dang

    1. Department of Civil and Earth Resources, Kyoto University, International Consortium on Landslides, Sakyo-ku Kyoto, Japan

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  • Reviews the Kyoto2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk (KS2020), a long-term and global framework for the landslide community to develop the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025
  • Includes four sections from the Fifth World Landslide Forum
  • Contains chapters on “landslide-induced tsunamis” and “landslide hazard assessment at UNESCO designated sites (world heritage, global geopark, and bioreserve)”
  • Covers the progress of more than 50 “International Programme on Landslide” Projects worldwide

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Table of contents (56 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Forum Lectures and Special Lectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. On the Prediction of Landslides and Their Consequences

      • Fausto Guzzetti
      Pages 3-32

    3. Design Recommendations for Single and Dual Debris Flow Barriers with and Without Basal Clearance

      • Charles Wang Wai Ng, Clarence Edward Choi, Haiming Liu, Sunil Poudyal, Julian Shun Hang Kwan
      Pages 33-53

    4. The Rockfall Failure Hazard Assessment: Summary and New Advances

      • Michel Jaboyedoff, Mariam Ben Hammouda, Marc-Henri Derron, Antoine Guérin, Didier Hantz, François Noel
      Pages 55-83

    5. Progress and Lessons Learned from Responses to Landslide Disasters

      • Brian D. Collins, Mark E. Reid, Jeffrey A. Coe, Jason W. Kean, Rex L. Baum, Randall W. Jibson et al.
      Pages 85-111

    6. Behind-the-Scenes in Mitigation of Landslides and Other Geohazards in Low Income Countries—in Memory of Hiroshi Fukuoka

      • Claudio Margottini
      Pages 113-130

    7. The Impact of Climate Change on Landslide Hazard and Risk

      • Luciano Picarelli, Suzanne Lacasse, Ken K. S. Ho
      Pages 131-141

  3. Sendai Landslide Partnerships, Kyoto Landslide Commitment, and International Programme on Landslides

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

      • Kyoji Sassa, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kaoru Takara, Badaoui Rouhban
      Pages 145-153

    3. International Consortium on Landslides (ICL): Proposing and Host Organization of SLP2015-2025 and KLC2020

      • Kyoji Sassa, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kaoru Takara
      Pages 155-161

    4. The ICL Journal Landslides—16 Years of Capacity Development for Landslide Risk Reduction

      • Matjaž Mikoš, Kyoji Sassa, Željko Arbanas
      Pages 163-177

    5. UNITWIN-UNESCO/KU/ICL Landslide, Earthquake and Water-related Disaster Risk Management for Society and the Environment Cooperation Programme

      • Kyoji Sassa, Ryosuke Uzuoka, Kaoru Takara
      Pages 179-185

    6. International Programme on Landslides (IPL): A Programme of the ICL for Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction

      • Qunli Han, Kyoji Sassa, Matjaž Mikoš
      Pages 187-203

    7. SATREPS Project for Sri Lanka with Regard to “Development of Early Warning Technology of Rain-Induced Rapid and Long-Travelling Landslides”

      • Kazuo Konagai, Asiri Karunawardena, Kyoji Sassa
      Pages 205-214

    8. Central Asia—Rockslides’ and Rock Avalanches’ Treasury and Workbook

      • Alexander Strom, Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov
      Pages 215-223

    9. Results of Recent Monitoring Activities on Landslide Umka, Belgrade, Serbia—IPL 181

      • Biljana Abolmasov, Uroš Đurić, Jovan Popović, Marko Pejić, Mileva Samardžić Petrović, Nenad Brodić
      Pages 225-234

    10. Landslides in Weathered Flysch: From Activation to Deposition (WCoE 2017–2020)

      • Matjaž Mikoš, Nejc Bezak, Janko Logar, Matej Maček, Ana Petkovšek, Dušan Petrovič et al.
      Pages 235-240

    11. Report of the Croatian WCoE 2017–2020: From Landslide Mapping to Risk Assessment

      • Snježana Mihalić Arbanas, Sanja Bernat Gazibara, Petra Jagodnik, Marin Sečanj, Vedran Jagodnik, Martin Krkač et al.
      Pages 241-250

    12. LARAM School: An Ongoing Experience

      • Leonardo Cascini, Michele Calvello, Sabatino Cuomo
      Pages 251-257
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About this book

This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the followings:

• Four Forum lectures and one award paper

• Sendai Landslide Partnerships, Kyoto Landslide Commitment, and International Programme on Landslides.

• Landslide-induced tsunamis

• Landslides at UNESCO designates sites and contribution from WMO, FAO, and IRDR

• Education and Capacity Development for Risk Management and Risk Governance

Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President and the Secretary-General of International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.

Prof. Matjaž Mikoš is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides and Vice President of Slovenian Academyof Engineering. He is a Professor and Dean of Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Dr. Shinji Sassa is Head of Soil Dynamics Group and Research Director of International Research Center for Coastal Disasters, Port and Airport Research Institute, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Japan.

Prof. Peter Bobrowsky is the President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

Prof. Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.

Dr. Khang Dang is the Secretary General of the Fifth World Landslide Forum. He also serves as the Research Promotion Officer of ICL and a Lecturer at the University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.



Editors and Affiliations

  • International Consortium on Landslides, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • Faculty of Civil & Geodetic Eng, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Matjaž Mikoš

  • Port and Airport Research Institute, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Yokosuka City, Japan

    Shinji Sassa

  • Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

    Peter T. Bobrowsky

  • Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Kaoru Takara

  • Department of Civil and Earth Resources, Kyoto University, International Consortium on Landslides, Sakyo-ku Kyoto, Japan

    Khang Dang

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 1 Sendai Landslide Partnerships and Kyoto Landslide Commitment

  • Editors: Kyoji Sassa, Matjaž Mikoš, Shinji Sassa, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kaoru Takara, Khang Dang

  • Series Title: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60196-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60195-9Published: 22 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60198-0Published: 23 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60196-6Published: 21 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-1894

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-1908

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 641

  • Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 483 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy

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