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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025

  • Provides Information about the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships

  • Committed to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

  • Leading papers from the fourth World Landslides Forum

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Conference series link(s): WLF: Workshop on World Landslide Forum

Conference proceedings info: WLF 2017.

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Table of contents (51 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Rupestrian World Heritage Sites: Instability Investigation and Sustainable Mitigation

      • Claudio Margottini, Peter Bobrowsky, Giovanni Gigli, Heinz Ruther, Daniele Spizzichino, Jan Vlcko
      Pages 23-50Open Access
    3. Subaerial Landslide-Generated Waves: Numerical and Laboratory Simulations

      • Saeedeh Yavari-Ramshe, Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani
      Pages 51-73Open Access
    4. Rockfall Occurrence and Fragmentation

      • Jordi Corominas, Olga Mavrouli, Roger Ruiz-Carulla
      Pages 75-97Open Access
    5. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)—UNESCO’s Contribution to the Implementation of UNISDR’s Global Initiative and ICL

      • Giuseppe Arduino, Rouhban Badaoui, Soichiro Yasukawa, Alexandros Makarigakis, Irina Pavlova, Hiroaki Shirai et al.
      Pages 117-122Open Access
    6. World Meteorological Organization (WMO)—Concerted International Efforts for Advancing Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems

      • Jochen Luther, Alasdair Hainsworth, Xu Tang, John Harding, Jair Torres, Margherita Fanchiotti
      Pages 129-141Open Access
    7. Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools (LITT)

      • Kyoji Sassa, Fausto Guzzetti, Hiromitsu Yamagishi, Željko Arbanas, Nicola Casagli, Binod Tiwari et al.
      Pages 193-218Open Access
    8. Progress of the World Report on Landslides

      • Biljana Abolmasov, Teuku Faisal Fathani, KoFei Liu, Kyoji Sassa
      Pages 219-226Open Access

About this book

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in five full-color volumes. Thisfirst volume contains the following:

•    Three forum lectures

•    Background and Content of the Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025

•    Contribution from the signatory organizations of the Sendai Partnerships

•    Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools (LIT T)

•    Progress of the World Report on Landslides (WRL)

•    International Programme on Landslides (IPL): Objects, History and List of WCoE/IPL projects

•    UNESCO-KU-ICL UNITIWIN Network supporting IPL

•    Landslides: Journal of International Consortium on Landslides

•    International Programme on Landslides (IPL): WCoEs and IPL Projects

•    Landslides and Society

Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He is Executive Director of ICL and the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.

Prof. Matjaž Mikoš is the Forum Chair of the Fourth World Landslide Forum. He is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides and President of the Slovenian National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Prof. Yueping Yin is the President of the International Consortium on Landslides and the Chairman of the Committee of Geo-Hazards Prevention of China, and the Chief Geologist of Geo-Hazard Emergency Technology, Ministry of Land and Resources, P.R. China.

IPL (International Programme on Landslides) is a programme of the ICL. The programme is managed by the IPL Global Promotion Committee including ICL and ICL supporting organizations, UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU, WFEO, IUGS and IUGG. The IPL contributes to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025.




Editors and Affiliations

  • on Landslides (ICL), International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • Fac. of Civil & Geodetic Eng., Univ. of Ljubljana ( FGG ) Fac. of Civil & Geodetic Eng., Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Matjaž Mikoš

  • China Inst. Geo-Environment Monitoring, China Geological Survey, Beijing, China

    Yueping Yin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025

  • Editors: Kyoji Sassa, Matjaž Mikoš, Yueping Yin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59469-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53500-5Published: 17 May 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59469-9Published: 16 May 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 586

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 350 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Sustainable Development

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