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Climate change occurring concomitantly with global warming is expected to affect human life in many respects. One important effect is that climate change is expected to present unanticipated hazards related to natural disasters and changing environments, sometimes called “extreme events.” The scale, intensity, and frequency of natural disasters have been increasing continuously. The increasing frequency and scale of natural disasters are apparently concentrated in Asia-Pacific regions. Examples of disasters of this category include torrential rainfall induced shallow and deep slope failure, flooding, riverbank erosion, and destruction of roads and railways as well as damage to coastal structures triggered by severe typhoons and intensifying inundation. As an activity to alleviate unfortunate situations for which achievements have scarcely been described in earlier Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change reports, ATC 1 was proposed to use the skills of geotechnical engineers dealing with the protection and mitigation of geo-disasters and geo-environmental impacts in their professional work and research. Confronting these disasters with resiliency and concrete measures is a responsibility of our geotechnical engineering society, particularly of the Asian branch of ISSMGE. This paper describes new findings and knowledge learned through ATC 1 Committee activities and achievements.
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The author expresses his sincere gratitude for the financial support received as a grant-in-aid for the MEXT project entitled “Southeast Asia Based Climate Change Adaptation Network,” of which a representative is Professor Tetsuji Itoh, Director of ICAS, Ibaraki University. In addition, cooperation from members of ATC1 in ICSMGE on “Geotechnical Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change-induced Geo-disasters in Asia-Pacific Regions (GMACC)” is highly appreciated. Statistical analysis of Asian disasters from CRED is credited to the great effort and contribution by Ms. Saori Fukushi, formerly Graduate Student at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Japan. Dr. Tomohiro Ishizawa, Chief Researcher of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), kindly provided us analysis results from CRED data (1989–2005) to contribute to the SOA report given by Dr. Takeji Kokusho, at that time Professor of Chuo University, Japan, and currently Professor Emeritus at that university.
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Yasuhara, K., Bergado, D. (2023). Climate Change-Induced Geotechnical Hazards in Asia: Impacts, Assessments, and Responses. In: Hazarika, H., et al. Sustainable Geo-Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4074-3_13
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