Editors:
- 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
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 (56 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Forum Lectures and Special Lectures
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Front Matter
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Sendai Landslide Partnerships, Kyoto Landslide Commitment, and International Programme on Landslides
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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
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International Consortium on Landslides, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoji Sassa
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Faculty of Civil & Geodetic Eng, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Matjaž Mikoš
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Port and Airport Research Institute, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Yokosuka City, Japan
Shinji Sassa
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Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada
Peter T. Bobrowsky
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Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Kaoru Takara
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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