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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

Volume 6 Specific Topics in Landslide Science and Applications

  • Provides detailed information on 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
  • Focuses on landslide-induced-tsunamis and landslide hazard assessment at UNESCO designated sites (world heritage, global geopark and bioreserve)
  • Shows latest progress of more than 50 International Programme on Landslide Projects worldwide and 20 World Centre's of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction

Part of the book series: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction (CLDRR)

Conference series link(s): WLF: Workshop on World Landslide Forum

Conference proceedings info: WLF 2020.

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Impact of Large Ground Deformations Near Seismic Faults on Critically Important Civil-Infrastructures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Reconstruction Strategies for Mw 7.8 Earthquake-Induced Landslide-Affected Settlements in Nepal

      • Tara Nidhi Bhattarai, Dhruba Prasad Sharma, Lekh Prasad Bhatta
      Pages 61-66
    3. State of Nuclear Power Plant Risk Assessment for Ground Deformation with Seismic Faulting

      • Katsumi Ebisawa, Toshiaki Sakai, Futoshi Tanaka, Ryusuke Haraguchi, Yoshinori Mihara, Yuji Nikaido
      Pages 67-73
  3. Recent Progress in the Landslide Initiating Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
    2. Water Exfiltration from Bedrock: A Drastic Landslide Triggering Mechanism

      • Amin Askarinejad, Sarah M. Springman
      Pages 85-99
    3. Controls on Landslide Size: Insights from Field Survey Data

      • Haijun Qiu, Yifei Cui, Dongdong Yang, Sheng Hu, Yanqian Pei, Shuyue Ma
      Pages 101-119
    4. Geologic and Hydrologic Investigations on Slope Failures Triggered by Extreme Rainfall on Izu Oshima Island, Japan

      • Ikuo Towhata, Takeshi Akima, Satoshi Goto, Shigeru Goto, Junya Tanaka, Shogo Aoyama
      Pages 121-130
    5. Formation Mechanism and Stability of the Instable Block Formed in Xinmo Landsilde

      • Bingli Hu, Lijun Su, Qijun Xie, Fangwei Yu, Chonglei Zhang
      Pages 163-168

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 following parts:


• Impact of Large Ground Deformations near Seismic Faults on Critically Important Civil Infrastructures
• Recent Progress in the Landslide Initiating Science
• Earth Observation and Machine Learning in Landslide Science
• General Landslide Studies


Professor Željko Arbanas is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor of Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia. He is the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides.


Professor Peter Bobrowsky is the President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of GeologicalSurvey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.


Professor Kazuo Konagai is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Principal Researcher at the ICL Headquarters. He serves as the Secretary-General of the Fifth World Landslide Forum.


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


Professor 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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Željko Arbanas

  • Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

    Peter T. Bobrowsky

  • International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan

    Kazuo Konagai

  • International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (Shishu-kan), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Kaoru Takara

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 6 Specific Topics in Landslide Science and Applications

  • Editors: Željko Arbanas, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kazuo Konagai, Kyoji Sassa, Kaoru Takara

  • Series Title: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60713-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60712-8Published: 21 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60715-9Published: 21 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60713-5Published: 20 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-1894

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-1908

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 407

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 424 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy

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Softcover Book USD 179.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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