Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 1, 2022

This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology Promotes the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk Presents a collection of state-of-the-art research on landslides

Klappentext

This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Aim and Outline of the Book Series Progress in Landslide Research and Technology (Kyoji Sassa).- Part I. International Consortium on Landslides and International Programme on Landslides.- Chapter 2. International Consortium on Landslides: from IDNDR, IGCP, UNITWIN, WCDRR 2 & 3 to Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 (Kyoji Sassa).- Chapter 3. International Programme on Landslides A Short Overview of its Historical Development (Matja Miko).- Part II. Original Articles.- Chapter 4. Understanding and Reducing the Disaster Risk of Landslide-induced Tsunamis: Outcome of the Panel Discussion and the World Tsunami Awareness Day Special Event of the Fifth World Landslide Forum (Shinji Sassa).- Chapter 5. Natural-hazard-related web observatory as a sustainable development tool (Matja Miko).- Chapter 6. Mapping post-fire monthly erosion rates at the catchment scale using empirical models implemented in GIS. A case study inNorthern Italy (Damiano Vacha).- Chapter 7. Mechanisms of shallow rainfall-induced landslides from Australia: insights into field and laboratory investigations (Ivan Gratchev).- Chapter 8. Design protection barriers against flow-like landslides (Sabatino Cuomo).- Chapter 9. Landslide warning systems in low- and lower-middle-income countries: future challenges and societal impact (Irasema Alcántara-Ayala).- Chapter 10. The role of translational landslides in the evolution of cuesta topography (Shinro Abe).