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Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction

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Editors:
  1. Kyoji Sassa

    1. UNITWIN Headquarter Building Kyoto University Uji Campus Gokasho Uji, Japan

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  2. Paolo Canuti

    1. Università di Firenze Dipto. Scienze della Terra via G, Italy

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This book documents the First World Landslide Forum, which was jointly organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), eight UN organizations (UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UN/ISDR, UNU, UNEP, World Bank, UNDP) and four NGOs (International Council for Science, World Federation of Engineering Organizations, Kyoto Univ. and Japan Landslide Society) in Tokyo in 2008.

The material consists of four parts: The Open Forum "Progress of IPL Activities; Four Thematic Lectures in the Plenary Symposium "Global Landslide Risk Reduction"; Six Keynote Lectures in the Plenary session; and the aims and overviews of eighteen parallel sessions (dealing with various aspects necessary for landslide disaster risk reduction such as: observations from space; climate change and slope instability; landslides threatening heritage sites; the economic and social impact of landslides; monitoring, prediction and early warning; and risk-management strategies in urban area, etc.)

Thus it enables the reader to benefit from a wide range of research intended to reduce risk due to landslide disasters as presented in the first global multi-disciplinary meeting.

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Progress of IPL Activities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Progress of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) – Objectives of the IPL and the World Landslide Forum

      • Kyoji Sassa
      Pages 3-14

    3. Projects of International Programme on Landslides

      • Nicola Casagli, Giacomo Falorni, Veronica Tofani
      Pages 15-28

  3. Keynote Lectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Landslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategy

      • Suzanne Lacasse, Farrokh Nadim, Suzanne Lacasse, Farrokh Nadim
      Pages 31-61

    3. Understanding to Predict

      • Luciano Picarelli
      Pages 63-88

    4. Mechanics-Based Approach Toward the Mitigation of Debris Flow Disasters

      • Tamotsu Takahashi
      Pages 89-113

    5. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: An Overview

      • Jacques Locat, Homa Lee
      Pages 115-142

    6. Satellite Remote Sensing Applications for Landslide Detection and Monitoring

      • Vern Singhroy
      Pages 143-158

    7. Huge Landslides Caused by Massive Earthquakes and Long-Lasting Geotechnical Risks

      • Konagai Kazuo, Johansson Jorgen, Takatsu Shigeki, Ikeda Takaaki
      Pages 159-176

    8. The Increasing Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris-Flow Threat in Western USA, and Implications for Consequences of Climate Change

      • Susan H. Cannon, Jerry DeGraff
      Pages 177-190

    9. Recovery of the Buddha's Niches and Cliff in Bamiyan (Central Afghanistan) after the Taliban Destruction of 2001

      • Claudio Margottini
      Pages 191-210

  4. Achievements of IPL Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. Assessment of Global High-Risk Landslide Disaster Hotspots

      • Farrokh Nadim, Oddvar Kjekstad
      Pages 213-221

    3. International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan

      • Alexander L. Strom, Kanatbek E. Abdrakhmatov
      Pages 223-227

    4. Landslide Investigation and Capacity Building in the Machu Picchu – Aguas Calientes Area (IPL C101-1)

      • Kyoji Sassa, Hiroshi Fukuoka, Raul Carreno
      Pages 229-248

    5. Monitoring, Geomorphological Evolution and Slope Stability of Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu: Results from Italian INTERFRASI project

      • P. Canuti, Claudio Margottini, N. Casagli, G. Delmonaco, L. Falconi, R. Fanti et al.
      Pages 249-257

    6. Dilatometric and Extensometric Monitoring of Rock Blocks Displacements Within Machu Picchu Archaeological Site, Peru

      • Vít Vilímek, Jan Klimeš, Jiří Zvelebil, Fernando V. Astete
      Pages 259-263

    7. Geophysical Surveys at Machu Picchu, Peru: Results for Landslide Hazard Investigations

      • Melvyn Best, Peter Bobrowsky, Marten Douma, Victor Carlotto, Walter Pari
      Pages 265-273
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Editors and Affiliations

  • UNITWIN Headquarter Building Kyoto University Uji Campus Gokasho Uji, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • Università di Firenze Dipto. Scienze della Terra via G, Italy

    Paolo Canuti

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