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Recently, heavy rainfall events have induced several geo-disasters, floods, sediments, and debris flow at different regions around Japan which in turn have caused severe damage to life and properties. According to several reports from the intergovernmental panel on climate change and other research institutes, the localized torrential rainfall events frequency is expected to increase. Under such circumstances of the anticipated climate change, the increase in the geo-disasters inducing forces such as rainfalls, the deterioration of the social infrastructure, and the decline in the overall geo-disasters prevention capabilities as a result of the changes in social structure due to the reduction in the working power were considered in this study. By carefully comparing and analysing the situation of the repeated geo-disasters and reflecting the obtained results to the geo-disasters mitigation and prevention practice in Kyushu, Japan, developing innovative system and techniques that integrate the academic disciplines, in collaboration with the local residents and government is now strongly needed.
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Yasufuku, N., Alowiasy, A. (2021). Lessons from Geo-Disasters Caused by Heavy Rainfall in Recent Years in Kyushu Island, Japan. In: Arbanas, Ž., Bobrowsky, P.T., Konagai, K., Sassa, K., Takara, K. (eds) Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk. WLF 2020. ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60713-5_14
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