Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction - Sassa, Kyoji; Canuti, Philippo; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Progress of IPL Activities -- Progress of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) - Objectives of the IPL and the World Landslide Forum -- Projects of International Programme on Landslides -- Keynote Lectures -- Landslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategy -- Understanding to Predict -- Mechanics-Based Approach Toward the Mitigation of Debris Flow Disasters -- Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: An Overview -- Satellite Remote Sensing Applications for Landslide Detection and Monitoring -- Huge Landslides Caused by Massive Earthquakes and Long-Lasting Geotechnical Risks -- The Increasing Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris-Flow Threat in Western USA, and Implications for Consequences of Climate Change -- Recovery of the Buddha's Niches and Cliff in Bamiyan (Central Afghanistan) after the Taliban Destruction of 2001 -- Achievements of IPL Projects -- Assessment of Global High-Risk Landslide Disaster Hotspots -- International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan -- Landslide Investigation and Capacity Building in the Machu Picchu - Aguas Calientes Area (IPL C101-1) -- Monitoring, Geomorphological Evolution and Slope Stability of Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu: Results from Italian INTERFRASI project -- Dilatometric and Extensometric Monitoring of Rock Blocks Displacements Within Machu Picchu Archaeological Site, Peru -- Geophysical Surveys at Machu Picchu, Peru: Results for Landslide Hazard Investigations -- Integration of VHR Satellite Images with Field Data for the Analysis of Debris Sheet Instability in the Machu Picchu Area -- Parallel Sessions -- A Look from Space -- Mapping: Inventories, Susceptibility, Hazard and Risk -- Monitoring, Prediction and Early Warning -- Catastrophic Slides and Avalanches -- Cultural Heritage and Landslides: Research for Risk Prevention and Conservation -- Landslides and Multi-Hazards -- Rainfall, Debris Flows and Wildfires -- Case Studies and National Experiences -- Education, Capacity Building and Public Awareness for Disaster Reduction -- International Cooperation Initiatives -- Policy and Institutional Framework for Landslide Mitigation and Risk Reduction -- Climate Change and Slope Instability -- Economic and Social Impacts of Landslides -- Environmental Impact of Landslides -- Engineering Measures for Landslide Disaster Mitigation -- Watershed and Forest Management for Landslide Risk Reduction.
Keywords: Geotechnical engineering; Geoecology; Environmental geology; Environmental monitoring; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis