Landslides Disaster Risk Reduction

Download Landslides Disaster Risk Reduction full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Landslides Disaster Risk Reduction ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction

Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction
Author :
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 638
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783540699668
ISBN-13 : 354069966X
Rating : 4/5 (66X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction by : Kyoji Sassa

Download or read book Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction written by Kyoji Sassa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction Related Books

Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction
Language: en
Pages: 638
Authors: Kyoji Sassa
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-27 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book documents the First World Landslide Forum, which was jointly organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), eight UN organizations (UN
Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk
Language: en
Pages: 631
Authors: Kyoji Sassa
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-21 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fi
Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Malcolm G. Anderson
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-22 - Publisher: World Bank Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The handbook details the MoSSaiC (Management of Slope Stability in Communities) methodology, which aims to create behavioral change in vulnerable communities in
Landslides
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Kyoji Sassa
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-16 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Based on contributions to the first General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides, this reference and status report emphasizes the mechanisms o
Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
Language: en
Pages: 698
Authors: Tim Davies
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-17 - Publisher: Elsevier

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Landslide Hazards, Risks and Disasters Second Edition makes a broad but detailed examination of major aspects of mass movements and their consequences, and prov