The World Landslide Forum (WLF) is a triennial world conference of scientists, policy makers, professional engineers and practitioners, aiming at international exchange of knowledge, experiences and ...latest trends in science and engineering development and with focus on landslide risk governance. The WLF4 will be organised in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from May 30 to June 2, in 2017. The WLF4 has an objective to be a worldwide event for discussing how landslide research and landslide risk reduction can contribute to advancing culture of living with natural hazards. The risk governance in the field of landslide disaster risk reduction and management means to establish an effective bottom-up system incorporating many relevant stakeholders into a risk dialogue, and enhancing risk communication with the aim to build a sustainable system of prevention and disaster relief in the field of landslide disasters risk reduction. The WLF4 will be the first opportunity to evaluate the progress in the implementation of the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025 for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk, officially accepted in 2015 at the 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan.
The Forum themes and corresponding sessions are the following ones:
Theme 1 – Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 (Session 1 - Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025; Session 2 – International Programme on Landslides (IPL); Session 3 – Landslides and Society).
Theme 2 – Advances in Landslide Science (Session 1 – Landslide Field Recognition & Identification; Session 2 – Landslide Investigation; Session 3 – Landslide Modeling; Session 4 – Landslide Hazard, Risk Assessment & Prediction).
Theme 3 – Advances in Landslide Technology (Session 1 – Landslide Monitoring and Warning; Session 2 – Landslide Disasters and Relief; Session 3 – Landslide Mitigation, Remediation and Stabilization).
Theme 4 – Diversity of Landslide Forms (Session 1 – Earthquake-Induced Landslides; Session 2 – Rainfall-Induced Landslides; Session 3 – Rapid Landslides; Session 4 – Landslides in Rocks and Complex Landslides; Session 5 – Landslides and Other Natural Hazards).
Theme 5 – Landslides in Different Environments (Session 1 – Landslide Interactions with the Built Environment; Session 2 – Landslides in Natural Environment; Session 3 – Landslides and Water; Session 4 – Landslides as Environmental Change Proxies).
The following Forum Side Events are planned:
WLF4 Student Session
WLF4 Landslide Photo Contest »Landslides and Mankind«
3rd Regional Symposium on Landslides in the Adriatic-Balkan Region (ReSyLAB 2017)
You are invited to submit your abstracts for WLF4 before March 31, 2016 – details are available on
www.wlf4.org
.
The World Landslide Forum (WLF) is a triennial world conference of scientists, policy makers, professional engineers and practitioners, aiming at international exchange of knowledge, experiences and ...latest trends in science and engineering development and with focus on landslide risk governance.
The WLF1 was organized in 2008 in Tokyo, Japan, followed in 2011 by the WLF2 in Rome, Italy, and in 2014 by the WLF3 in Beijing, China. The WLF4 (4th WLF) will be organised in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017, and this is the first announcement.
The WLF4 has an objective to be a worldwide event for discussing how landslide research and landslide risk reduction can contribute to advancing culture of living with natural hazards. The risk governance in the field of landslide disaster risk reduction and management means to establish an effective bottom-up system incorporating many relevant stakeholders into a risk dialogue, and enhancing risk communication with the aim to build a sustainable system of prevention and disaster relief in the field of landslide disasters risk reduction. The WLF4 will be the first opportunity to evaluate the progress in the implementation of the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025 for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk, officially accepted in 2015 at the 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan.
You are warmly invited to co-shape the Forum with your ideas (secretariat@wlf4.org), attend the Forum, and be actively involved into discussions and knowledge exchange between a wide audience that is expected to attend the Forum and that will have a diverse background and will come from different regions of the world and with interest into landslide disaster risk reduction.
The next (second) announcement with more details is foreseen to be available till the end of 2015.
Welcome at WLF4 in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2017.
The international journal
Landslides
:
Journal of International Consortium on Landslides
was established in April 2004. The aims of
Landslides
are to promote landslide science, technology, and ...capacity building, and to strengthen global cooperation for landslide risk reduction within the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR). The achievements of the first 5 years from the beginning of 2004 (Vol. 1, No. 1) to the mid-2009 (Vol. 6, No. 2) were reviewed in 2009 (
Landslides 6:275–286, 2009
). This article presents the review for the second 5-year period from mid-2009 (Vol. 6, No. 3) to the end of 2013 (Vol. 10, No. 6), focusing on the journal’s significance and its impact. We include an analysis of the classifications of articles in
Landslides
.
•Selected extreme rainfall events in the last 25years in Slovenia were investigated.•Rainfall characteristics triggering flash floods and landslides are different.•Copulas yield useful ...intensity–duration–frequency relationship (IDF).•Rainfall inter-event time selection has significant influences on IDFs.•Different rainfall thresholds should apply in different parts of Slovenia.
Floods, landslides and debris flows are natural events that occur all over the world and are often induced by extreme rainfall conditions. Several extreme events occurred in Slovenia (Europe) in the last 25years that caused 18 casualties and approximately 500million Euros of economic loss. The intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) relationship was constructed using the Frank copula function for several rainfall stations using high-resolution rainfall data with an average subsample length of 34years. The empirical rainfall threshold curves were also evaluated for selected extreme events. Post-event analyses showed that rainfall characteristics triggering flash floods and landslides are different. The sensitivity analysis results indicate that the inter-event time definition (IETD) and subsample definition methodology can have a significant influence on the position of rainfall events in the intensity–duration space, the constructed IDF curves and on the relationship between the empirical rainfall threshold curves and the IDF curves constructed using the copula approach. Furthermore, a combination of several empirical rainfall thresholds with an appropriate high-density rainfall measurement network can be used as part of the early warning system of the initiation of landslides and debris flows. However, different rainfall threshold curves should be used for lowland and mountainous areas in Slovenia.
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). It gives an overview ...of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk.
Dissemination of research results is an important part of basic as well as applied research if not the most important one. A large part of research results is published in scientific literature, and ...since there are many forms of it, the question arises which form is the most visible and attractive to the world scientific community. The International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), based in Kyoto, Japan, is one of the leading institutions in the field of landslide research and landslide risk reduction. On behalf of ICL, Springer Nature has published the journal
Landslides: Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides
since 2004. It is a very successful scientific journal with regard to its scientometric parameters. Since January 2018, it has been a monthly journal published in full color in electronic as well as printed form. Another form of dissemination of the ICL scientific and professional activities are published books in the form of monographs and proceedings from triennial World Landslide Forums. This paper discusses the impact of 52 books with 3426 chapters taken from the field of landslide science and published by Springer Nature from 2005 to 2018 in the earth sciences category, using different scientometric parameters, such as Bookmetrix downloads and citations, Scopus citations, Scopus h-index, Google citations, and Google h-index. The analysis was performed on the book chapter level (using mainly citations as the main scientometric parameter) as well as on the book level (using book h-index and percentage of cited chapters). Out of the selected 52 titles, 22 were published on behalf of the ICL, with 1419 chapters. The differences among landslide-related books can be quite large; only a few chapters from analyzed book titles were found to be cited frequently compared to highly cited scientific journal articles. On average, the analyzed 3426 book chapters from 52 landslide-related books have been downloaded since publication over 53,000 times each; 1092 chapters (32%) received 2932 citations (2.68 citations per cited chapter and 0.86 citations per published chapter). The analysis shows that the books published on behalf of the ICL are, together with other landslide-related book titles, on the forefront in the Springer eBook collection Earth and Environmental Science (EES). The selected 52 landslide-related book titles are above the average metrics for the whole EES with regard to the total number of downloads per book, the total number of citations per book, and the total number of readers per book. The ICL-related books are getting more downloads but less readers and citations (so far) as the selected non-ICL-related books. A way in raising the visibility and impact of the ICL books on landslide research community would be to support their open access publication in the form of e-Books as much as possible, and inclusion of ICL books into Web of Science.
A medium-ranged high performance handheld reflectorless laser measurement system, was used for a morphological survey on the Strug rock fall in W Slovenia in the period from August 2003 to August ...2004. The purpose was to evaluate its potential for monitoring ground surface changes in rock fall source areas and to help evaluating morphological changes by measuring distance from fixed points. In the area, 21 fixed geodetic points have been established. Altogether, seven measurement sets with more than 5500 points have been gathered in the rock fall area. Choosing a point cloud with a density of less than 1 point per 10m2 on a very rough rock fall surface failed to be a good solution. The changes on larger areas were shown by displacements of selected significantly large-sized rock blocks with a volume of several m3. Because only smaller changes were observed between the single field series, the rock fall surface generally remained unchanged. Local surface changes of the order of 1 m or more, were clearly shown by measurements in the selected referenced cross sections. The usage of these cross sections gave a possibility to evaluate volumetric changes on the surface. The laser measurement system provided a good replacement for the classical terrestrial geodetic survey equipment, especially when performing remote monitoring of morphological changes in rock fall hazard zones, however, the case is different when fixed points are to be measured precisely.
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