Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction

Kyoji Sassa, Paolo Canuti

Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 27, 2008 - Science - 650 pages

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.

Contents

• Projects of International Programme on Landslides: 15
• Keynote Lectures: 29
• Understanding to Predict 63: 62
• MechanicsBased Approach Toward the Mitigation of Debris: 89
• Satellite Remote Sensing Applications for Landslide Detection: 143
• Huge Landslides Caused by Massive Earthquakes: 159
• The Increasing Wildfire and PostFire DebrisFlow Threat: 177
• Recovery of the Buddhas Niches and Cliff in Bamiyan Central Afghanistan after the Taliban Destruction of 2001: 191
• Achievements of IPL Projects: 211
• International Summer School on Rockslides and Related: 223
• Monitoring Geomorphological Evolution and Slope Stability: 249
• Dilatometric and Extensometric Monitoring of Rock: 259
• Integration of VHR Satellite Images with Field Data for: 275
• Parallel Sessions: 282
• Inventories Susceptibility Hazard and Risk: 321
• Monitoring Prediction and Early Warning 351: 350
• Catastrophic Slides and Avalanches 379: 377
• Research for Risk: 401
• Landslides and MultiHazards 435: 434
• Rainfall Debris Flows and Wildfires: 451
• Case Studies and National Experiences 475: 473
• Education Capacity Building and Public Awareness: 499
• International Cooperation Initiatives 517: 516
• Policy and Institutional Framework for Landslide Mitigation: 531
• Climate Change and Slope Instability: 557
• Economic and Social Impacts of Landslides: 573
• Environmental Impact of Landslides 589: 588
• Engineering Measures for Landslide Disaster Mitigation: 609
• Watershed and Forest Management for Landslide Risk Reduction 633: 632

Bibliographic information

• Title: Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction
• Editors: Kyoji Sassa, Paolo Canuti
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2008
• ISBN: 354069966X, 9783540699668
• Length: 650 pages
• Subjects: Science / Earth Sciences / General; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology; Science / Environmental Science; Science / Life Sciences / Ecology; Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General