New open access book series "Progress in Landslide Research and Technology"

The Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk (Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020: KLC2020)—a Commitment to the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals, the New Urban Agenda, and the Paris Climate Agreement—was launched on 5 November 2021 together with 90 signatories (Sassa 2021). The KLC2020 established a Secretariat of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment within the ICL Secretariat in Kyoto, Japan, at the same time. The KLC2020 Secretariat examined potential new mechanisms/infrastructures to develop KLC2020. As a result, a new open access book focusing on practical applications of landslide research and technology for the benefit of society was planned for the success of the KLC2020. The KLC2020 Secretariat together with the WLF5 organizing committee expects that “Launching Declaration of the ICL Open Access Book Series for KLC2020” will be adopted by panelists and participants on the floor at the end of the high-level panel discussion “Review of KLC2020 and the way forward” at the National Kyoto International Conference Center on 3 November 2021.

Outline of the open access book series Progress in Landslide Research and Technology

The new open access book series of the International Consortium of Landslides (ICL) is to be founded in November 2021 with the first issue targeted for publication in 2022. The International Consortium on Landslides founded the Landslides Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides in 2003 (the first issue was published in 2004). A comparison of both publications is shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Plan of the new open access book series in comparison with Landslides Journal

The book Progress in Landslide Research and Technology publishes original articles for practice and society, such as practical applications of new models, new equipment, investigation reports, teaching tools, and landslide reports, while the Journal Landslides publishes original research. The electronic version of these books will be open access, namely they can be downloaded free of charge. The publication of the books will require a book processing charge, while publication for the Journal Landslides is free. Two issues of the book with 400–500 pages per issue are expected to be published each year, while the journal with 250–350 pages per issue is published on a monthly basis. Page size and the number of columns are the same in both publications.

Style of book series

The new book series will be a journal-style book, published by Springer. Namely, each issue includes the volume and issue number and the publication year as shown in Fig. 1. The title of the book series is Progress in Landslide Research and Technology. Thus, the title of each issue of the book series will be “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue number, 2022,” “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue number, 2023,” etc. ISSN for the new book series was assigned for print version and electronic version in 2021 as follows:

Fig. 1

Planned cover of the first issue of the new open access book series

Print-ISSN:2731–3794, e-book-ISSN: 2731–3808.

Categories of the book series

The page number of one article is limited in the Journal Landslides because there is no publication fee. In contrast, the maximum page number of one article in the book series is flexible. Articles can be 20–40 pages and even longer articles are acceptable. There are seven categories in the book series, as summarized below.

• 1. Original articles (minimum 8 pages): original articles reporting progress of landslide research and technology.

• 2. Review articles (minimum 8 pages): review of landslide research and technology in a thematic area of landslides. A review article integrating a series of research and technology of the author or its group.

• 3. IPL/WCoE/Kyoto Commitment activities (minimum 8 pages): progress or achievements of the projects of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) and the World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoEs), and Kyoto Landslide Commitment.

• 4. Teaching tools with extras online (minimum 8 pages): user-friendly teaching tools with extras (i.e., photos, illustration, videos, guidelines, and manuals) available online to fill the gap between the available level of science and technologies and the practical use in the society.

• 5. Technical note and case studies (minimum 4 pages): technical note and case studies on landslides and landslide disaster risk reduction practice.

• 6. World Landslide Reports (2–4 pages): landslide reports from landslide-prone developing countries and urbanizing areas of the developed countries from around the world. Articles in this category will not have a processing charge, but the number of reports will be limited to approximately 10 per issue.

• 7. Introduction of KLC2020 Official Promoters (1–3 pages): KLC2020 Official Promoters are eligible for this category. The introduction of the official promoters is published throughout the year.

Editorial Board of Book Series

Editor-in-Chief: Kyoji Sassa, International Consortium on Landslides, Japan.

Assistant Editor-in-Chief: Kazuo Konagai, International Consortium on Landslides, Japan.

Binod Tiwari, California State University, Fullerton, USA.

Željko Arbanas, University of Rijeka, Croatia.

Editors

Beena Ajmera, Iowa State University, USA.

Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Sabatino Cuomo, University of Salerno, Italy.

Yasser Elshayeb, Cairo University, Egypt.

Xuanmei Fan, Chengdu University of Technology, China.

Faisal Fathani, University of Gadja Mada, Indonesia.

Louis Ge, National Taiwan University, Chinese Taipei.

Ivan Gratchev, Griffith University, Australia.

David Huntley, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada.

Snježana Mihalić-Arbanas, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Matjaž Mikoš, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Yoshihisa Miyata, Department of Civil Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan, Japan.

Maneesha Ramesh, Amrita University, India.

Paola Reichenbach, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, CNR, Italy.

Shinji Sassa, Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan.

Josef Stemberk, Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Alexander Strom, Geodynamic Research Center, Russia.

Huiming Tang, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.

David Tappin, British Geological Survey, UK.

Veronica Tofani, University of Florence, Italy.

Vít Vilímek, Charles University, Czech Republic.

Fawu Wang, Tongji University, China.

Wei Shan, Northeast Forestry University, China.

Managing Committee

Kyoji Sassa (Chairman), Secretary General, Secretariat of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020.

Kaoru Takara, Managing Director, Secretariat of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020.

Matjaž Mikoš, Co-Chair of the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides

Qunli Han, Co-Chair of the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides

Nicola Casagli, President of the International Consortium on Landslides.

Peter Bobrowsky, Immediate Past-president of the International Consortium on Landslides.

KLC2020 Official Promoters

Host organization

International Consortium on Landslides (ICL)/Nicola Casagli.

Public sectors: KLC2020 Official Promoters—public

International Unions/Associations, Governmental organizations, Universities, and Research institutes.

• The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)/John Ludden

• The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) / Kathy Whaler

• The International Association for the Engineering Geology and the Environment/Rafig Azzam

• International Geosynthetics Society(IGS)/ John Kraus

• Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Canada / Daniel Lebel

• Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia/Matjaž Mikoš

• China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China/Huiming Tang

• Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Chinese Taipei /Shang-Hsien Hsien

• Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, the Czech Academy of Sciences/Josef Stemberk

• Institute of Cold Regions Science and Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, China/Wei Shan

Private sectors: KLC2020 Official Promoters—private

Companies and corporation.

• Marui & Co. Ltd, Japan

• Nippon Koei Co., Ltd, Japan

• Godai Corporation, Japan

• Chuo Kaihatsu Corporation, Japan

• Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd., Japan

• Osasi Technos, Inc., Japan

• Kiso-Jiban Consultants Co., Ltd, Japan

• Ellegi srl, Italy

• IDS GeoRadar s.r.l., Italy

Standing Editors

Kyoji Sassa, International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan.

Kazuo Konagai, International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan.

Binod Tiwari, California State University, Fullerton, USA.

Željko Arbanas, University of Rijeka, Croatia.

Paola Reichenbach, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, CNR, Italy.

Shinji Sassa, Port and Airport Research Institute, Yokosuka, Japan.

Fawu Wang, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Khang Dang, VNU University of Science, Vietnam National University, Vietnam.

Beena Ajmera, Iowa State University, USA.

Editorial Office

Secretariat of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020.

International Consortium on Landslides.

138–1 Tanaka-Asukai cho, Sakyo-ku.

Kyoto 606–8226, Japan.

E-mail: klc2020@iclhq.org.

Call for articles of Volume 1, Issue 1 and Issue 2 in 2022

Articles for the founding issues of Vol.1, Issue 1 and Issue 2 in 2022 are requested.

The submission deadline for Vol. 1, Issue 1 is 15 January 2022.

The submission deadline for Vol. 1, Issue 2 is 15 May 2022.

All presentations in the following 2022 IPL-KLC Hybrid conference are invited to contribute to Vol. 1, Issue 2 by 15 May 2022.

IPL-KLC Hybrid Conference in Kyoto, Japan

Date: 14 (Mon)—16 (Wed) March 2022.

Venue: Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus. Uji, Kyoto, Japan.

Tentative schedule:

14 March 2022 (Mon): Strategic meeting of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020

15 March 2022 (Tue): IPL-KLC Symposium on Landslides-1

New IPL project proposals and reports of ongoing IPL projects / WCoEs

16 March 2022 (Wed): IPL-KLC Symposium on Landslides-2

All types of articles contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020

Oral speakers of both symposia are invited to contribute articles to the open access book series Progress in Landslide Research and Technology.

Those who are willing to present in the 2022 IPL-KLC hybrid conference and also to publish in No. 1 or No. 2 issues of Progress in Landslide Research and Technology (P-LRT) are requested to fill and submit the following application form to the KLC2020 Secretariat < klc2020@iclhq.org > by 15 December 2021 (Table 2).

Table 2 Application form for Contribution to P-LRT and Oral presentation in the 2022 IPL-KLC Conference