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By Kyoji Sassa, Hiroshi. Fukuoka, Fawu Wang, Gonghui Wang

ISBN-10: 3540286640

ISBN-13: 9783540286646

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In line with contributions to the first basic meeting of the foreign Consortium on Landslides,  this reference and standing report emphasizes the mechanisms of other kinds of landslides, landslide chance research, and sustainable catastrophe administration. It contains the achievements of the ICL over the past three years, because the Kyoto assembly. It comprises 3 elements: study result of the foreign Programme on Landslides (IPL); contributions on landslide chance research; and articles on sustainable catastrophe administration. additionally, the historical past of the ICL actions (under the aid of UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UN/ISDR, and UNU) is recounted to create a comprehensive evaluate of  foreign job on landslides. The contributions reflect a wide variety of themes and issues, randing from field studies, identification of items of cultural history at landslide danger, in addition to landslide countermeasures.

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The photo shows Hans van Ginkel (UNU), Michel Jarraud (WMO), Salvano Briceno (UN/ISDR), Walter Erdelen (UNESCO), Kyoji Sassa (ICL), and others 19 20 Kyoji Sassa Fig. 24. Structure of Letter of Intent and Memorandum of Understanding 30 June 2005. Then, the Letter was approved by all of proposed global stakeholders of UN organizations and communities of science and technology. Kyoji Sassa and Kaoru Takara (Executive Director of the ICL) visited all six partners of this Letter in Europe with the completed Letter of Intent and discussed further cooperation as stated in the Letter on 14–19 July 2005.

The first meeting on this project was organized at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Vancouver, Canada. The project proposer, Kyoji Sassa, was chosen as the Project Coordinator, and Paolo Canuti (Italy) and Raul Carreño (Peru) became deputy coordinators. Upon a call for participation by the readers of “Landslide News” published by the Japan Landslide Society (JLS), 31 subprojects were proposed to join this project worldwide. Fig. 3. Photos of the Xian Symposium.

1. The ICL was briefly introduced by Sassa (2004a). A. on 13–14 October 2005. As a reference to have a perspective for reviewing the past history and to plan the future activities at the meeting, I would summarize the background and the history of the International Consortium on Landslides including its major activities with photographs and illustrations in chronological order. 1 July 13–17, 1997 International Symposium on Landslide Hazard Assessment, Xian, China As a part of the Japanese contribution to the IDNDR (International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction) in the last decade of the twentieth century, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Government of Japan (MEXT) conducted international joint research projects.

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