Landslides

, Volume 9, Issue 4, pp 565–569 | Cite as

The ICL landslide monitoring and warning thematic network

ICL/IPL Activities
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Abstract

The International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) was established in 2002 and soon became an important world player in the field of landslide risk mitigation; in 2012, it has more than 50 member organizations throughout the world. As a part of the activities to celebrate ICL’s tenth anniversary, a strategic document for the second decade called the ICL Strategic Plan 2012–2021 with the motto “to create a safer geo-environment” was adopted in Kyoto in January 2012. An important part of this document was a clear dedication to broaden the scope and societal impact in a thematic, institutional, and geographic manner. Thus, thematic and regional networks for landslide risk reduction were recognized to be an important form of ICL activities in the decade to come. In this paper, one of the eight newly established thematic and regional ICL networks is presented: the ICL Landslide Monitoring and Warning Thematic Network, a joint effort of ten ICL member organizations and two ICL supporters from eight countries, five of them are active ICL World Centres of Excellence in Landslide Risk Reduction in the period 2011–2014. The general objective of this thematic network is to compare experiences in the field of landslide monitoring and existing/installed (early) warning systems for active landslides in different regions of the world.

Keywords

ICL Landslides Mitigation Monitoring Rockfalls Scientific cooperation Warning systems 
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Acknowledgments

The paper was prepared by the input of the network ICL member organizations to the draft text presented at the Tenth Anniversary Meeting in Kyoto in January 2012 and the following discussions. The author fully acknowledges their written suggestions.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Faculty of Civil and Geodetic EngineeringUniversity of LjubljanaLjubljanaSlovenia

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