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Landslides: Global Risk Preparedness

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Kyoji Sassa

    1. , UNITWIN Headquaters, Kyoto University Uje-Campus, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Badaoui Rouhban

    1. UNESCO, Paris, France

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  3. Sálvano Briceño

    1. Uji Campus, UNITWIN Headquaters Building, Kyoto Universitiy, Kyoto, Japan

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  4. Mauri McSaveney

    1. Lower Hutt, New Zealand

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  5. Bin He

    1. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  • Updated Information on Progress in Landslides Sciences

  • Landslides - Disaster Mitigation Presents its Achievements of major IPL projects in research and capacity building

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Risk Assessment Technology

    1. Landslide Mechanisms and Protection of Highways in Frozen Regions of Northeast China

      • Wei Shan, Ying Guo, Gaohang Cui, Hua Jiang, Zhaoguang Hu, Chunjiao Wang et al.
      Pages 239-252

    2. Evaluation of Landslides in Uzebekistan Caused by the Joint Impact of Precipitation and Deep-focus Pamir-Hindu Earthquakes

      • R. A. Niyazov, B. S. Nurtaev
      Pages 253-265

    3. Modelling of Landslide Hazards in Kharkov Region of Ukraine Using GIS

      • Oleksandr Trofymchuk, Yuriy Kalyukh, Iryna Trofimova, Hanna Hlebchuk
      Pages 267-276

    4. Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility Mapping in the Río Chiquito-Barranca Del Muerto Watershed, Pico de Orizaba Volcano, Mexico

      • G. Legorreta Paulin, M. Bursik, M. T. Ramírez-Herrera, J. Lugo-Hubp, J. J. Zamorano Orozco, I. Alcántara-Ayala
      Pages 277-287

    5. Landslides and Great Soil Volume Changes Affecting an Urban Area of Barranquilla, Colombia

      • Guillermo Ávila, Edgar A. Rodríguez
      Pages 289-296

  2. Risk management and Capacity development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297
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    2. Landslide Monitoring and Warning Systems in Mexico

      • I. Alcántara-Ayala, Ricardo J. Garnica
      Pages 299-314

    3. Canadian Technical Guidelines and Best Practices Related to Landslides: a National Initiative for Loss Reduction

      • Réjean Couture, Andrée Blais-Stevens, Peter Bobrowsky, Baolin Wang, Doug VanDine
      Pages 315-322

    4. The Hybrid Socio-Technical System for Strategic Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

      • Dwikorita Karnawati, Teuku Faisa Fathani, Budi Andayani
      Pages 323-331

    5. The Croatian–Japanese Joint Research Project on Landslides: Activities and Public Benefits

      • Snježana Mihalić, Željko Arbanas
      Pages 333-349

    6. Landslides in West Africa: Impact, Mechanisms and Management

      • Ogbonnaya Igwe, Hiroshi Fukuoka
      Pages 351-367

    7. Capacity Development for Landslides Risk Reduction in India

      • Surya Parkash
      Pages 369-383
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This book presents the global landslide risk preparedness implemented through the International Programme on Landslides (IPL). IPL was initiated by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in 2002, and developed to a joint international programme by the IPL Global Promotion Committee (UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU and WFEO as well as ICL) through the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan. The materials consists of four parts: Outline of the International Programme on Landslides & IPL Global Promotion Committee; Achievements of major IPL projects in research and capacity building; World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoEs) and Landslide School Network; Key documents of IPL and ICL including Tokyo Action Plan, Application of ICL, IPL Projects, WCoEs and Landslide School Network

Editors and Affiliations

  • , UNITWIN Headquaters, Kyoto University Uje-Campus, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • UNESCO, Paris, France

    Badaoui Rouhban

  • Uji Campus, UNITWIN Headquaters Building, Kyoto Universitiy, Kyoto, Japan

    Sálvano Briceño

  • Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Mauri McSaveney

  • Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Bin He

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