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Item Details
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LANDSLIDES
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION |
| By: |
Kyoji Sassa (Editor), Paolo Canuti (Editor), Philippo Catani (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£206.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
354069966X |
| ISBN 13: |
9783540699668 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG |
| Pub. date: |
27 October, 2008 |
| Pages: |
668 |
| Description: |
In Tokyo in 2008, a number of international organizations convened for the First World Landslide Forum. This book documents that convention and offers a wide range of research dedicated to reducing the risk of landslide disasters. |
| Synopsis: |
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, and monitoring, prediction and early warning, and also 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. |
| Illustrations: |
40 black & white tables, biography |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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