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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 5 Landslides in Different Environments Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Mikos, Matjaz (Editor), Vilímek, Vít (Editor), Yin, Yueping (Editor)
ISBN: 3030104141     ISBN-13: 9783030104146
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $208.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Natural Disasters
- Science | Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
Dewey: 338.927
Physical Information: 1.17" H x 8.25" W x 11" (2.84 lbs) 557 pages
 
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This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in five full-color volumes. This fifth volume contains the following:

- Landslide Interactions with the Built Environment

- Landslides in Natural Environment

- Landslides and Water

- Landslides as Environmental Change Proxies: Looking at the Past

- Student Papers

Prof. Matjaz Mikos is the Forum Chair of the Fourth World Landslide Forum. He is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides and President of the Slovenian National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Assoc. Prof. V t Vil mek is the editor of Volume 5. He is member of the Evaluation committee of International Consortium on Landslides and head of the Czech Geomorphological Association.

Prof. Yueping Yin is the President of the International Consortium on Landslides and the Chairman of the Committee of Geo-Hazards Prevention of China, and the Chief Geologist of Geo-Hazard Emergency Technology, Ministry of Land and Resources, P.R. China.

Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He is Executive Director of ICL and the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal "Landslides" since its foundation in 2004.

IPL (International Programme on Landslides) is a programme of the ICL. The programme is managed by the IPL Global Promotion Committee including ICL and ICL supporting organizations, UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU, WFEO, IUGS and IUGG. The IPL contributes to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025.