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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

Volume 3 Monitoring and Early Warning

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  • Targeted at the global landslide community
  • Reports the state of the art in monitoring and early warning
  • Includes case studies and best practice on monitoring and early warning

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Monitoring and Remote Sensing for Landslide Risk Mitigation

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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:


• One theme lecture and one keynote lecture
• Monitoring and remote sensing for landslide risk mitigation, including one keynote lecture
• Landslide early warning systems, forecasting models and time prediction of landslides


Prof. Nicola Casagli is a Vice President and President-elect of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) for 2021–2023. He is Professor of engineering geology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, and President of the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Trieste, Italy.


Dr. Veronica Tofani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, and Program Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-hydrological hazards, University of Florence.


Prof. 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.

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


Prof. Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of the 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

  • Earth Science Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Nicola Casagli

  • Earth Sciences Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Veronica Tofani

  • International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

    Peter T. Bobrowsky

  • 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 3 Monitoring and Early Warning

  • Editors: Nicola Casagli, Veronica Tofani, Kyoji Sassa, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kaoru Takara

  • Series Title: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60311-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60310-6Published: 22 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60313-7Published: 22 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60311-3Published: 21 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-1894

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-1908

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 361

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 305 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy

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