The 4th World Landslide Forum - First Announcement.

Abstract

The World Landslide Forum (WLF) is a triennial world conference of scientists, policy makers, professional engineers and practitioners, aiming at international exchange of knowledge, experiences and latest trends in science and engineering development and with focus on landslide risk governance.

The WLF1 was organized in 2008 in Tokyo, Japan, followed in 2011 by the WLF2 in Rome, Italy, and in 2014 by the WLF3 in Beijing, China. The WLF4 (4th WLF) will be organised in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017, and this is the first announcement.

The WLF4 has an objective to be a worldwide event for discussing how landslide research and landslide risk reduction can contribute to advancing culture of living with natural hazards. The risk governance in the field of landslide disaster risk reduction and management means to establish an effective bottom-up system incorporating many relevant stakeholders into a risk dialogue, and enhancing risk communication with the aim to build a sustainable system of prevention and disaster relief in the field of landslide disasters risk reduction. The WLF4 will be the first opportunity to evaluate the progress in the implementation of the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025 for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk, officially accepted in 2015 at the 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan.

You are warmly invited to co-shape the Forum with your ideas (secretariat@wlf4.org), attend the Forum, and be actively involved into discussions and knowledge exchange between a wide audience that is expected to attend the Forum and that will have a diverse background and will come from different regions of the world and with interest into landslide disaster risk reduction.

The next (second) announcement with more details is foreseen to be available till the end of 2015.

Welcome at WLF4 in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2017.