Landslides (2015) 12:177–192DOI 10.1007/s10346-015-0555-8Received: 2 January 2015Accepted: 5 January 2015Published online: 27 January 2015© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Kyoji Sassa I Yueping Yin I Paolo Canuti

The Third World Landslide Forum, Beijing, 2014

Abstract The Third World Landslide Forum was held on 2–6June 2014 at the China National Convention Center, Beijing,China. This article outlines the background and the objectivesof the World Landslide Forums and reports on the organizedsessions and published books for the Third World LandslideForum. During this triennial event of ICL, World Centres ofExcellence on Landslide Risk Reduction and IPL Awards forSuccess, Varnes Medal, Best paper awards, and others wereconferred. Through the examination in the high-level paneldiscussion on the first day and the roundtable discussion onthe final day, 2014 Beijing Declaration “Landslide Risk Miti-gation: Toward a Safer Geo-environment” was adopted. It is adocument calling to join the planned Sendai partnerships2015–2024 as a contribution to post-2015 Framework for Di-saster Risk Reduction.

Keywords International Consortium on Landslides(ICL) . International Programme on Landslides (IPL) .

World Landslide Forum (WLF)

Introduction

BackgroundThe World Landslide Forum (WLF) is a triennial mainstreamconference aimed at gathering scientists, stakeholders, policymakers, and industry dealing with the management of landsliderisk. The first WLF was organized in 2008 by the InternationalConsortium on Landslides (ICL), United Nations Educational,Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO), World Meteo-rological Organization (WMO), Food and Agriculture Organiza-tion (FAO), United Nations International Strategy for DisasterReduction (UNISDR), United Nations University (UNU), theUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Bank(IBRD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), In-ternational Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), World Federa-tion of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), Kyoto University(KU), and Japan Landslide Society (JLS), at the United NationsUniversity, Tokyo. One full color book (649 pages) and twomono-color proceedings, entitled Landslides-Disaster Risk Re-duction, were published for WLF1 in 2008. The Second WLF wasorganized in 2011 by the International Programme on Landslides(IPL) Global Promotion Committee, including ICL, UNESCO,FAO, WMO, UNIDSR, UNU, ICSU, WFEO, IUGS, Institute forEnvironmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), and EarthScience Department of University of Florence (Sassa et al.2012). Seven volumes of full color books (3762 pages), entitledLandslide Science and Practice, were published for WLF2.

ObjectivesThe Third World Landslide Forum (WLF3) aims at furtherdeveloping the outcomes of the WLF2 in Rome 2011 by pro-viding a global crosscutting information and cooperation

platform for all types of organizations representing academia,United Nations organizations, governments, private enter-prises, and individuals that contribute to landslide research,practice, education, and decision making and are willing tostrengthen landslide and other related earth system risk re-duction strategies. The emphasis of this forum is “Toward asafer geo-environment” with special attention given to actualimplementation of technology and research in daily applica-tions and procedures with direct involvement of researchers,engineers, private enterprises, stakeholders, and policy anddecision makers.

Organizers and organizing committeeOrganizers International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) andChina Geological Survey (CGS).

Co-organizers International Association for Engineering Geologyand the Environment (IAEG), International Society for Rock Me-chanics (ISRM), International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geo-technical Engineering (ISSMGE), Geological Society of China (GSC),National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), ChineseAcademy of Science (CAS), Chinese Academy of Geosciences(CAGS), China Institute of Geo-environment Monitoring (CIGEM),Northeast Forestry University, Chengdu University of Technology(CDUT), China University of Geosicenece (CUG), Chang’an Univer-sity, China Association of Geological Hazards Prevention (CAGHP),and Committee of Geo-hazards, China (CGH).

Sponsors IPL Global Promotion Committee, including ICL,UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU, WFEO, and IUGS, andMinistry of Land and Resources (MLR), People’s Republic of China.

Honorary Chairpersons Daming Jiang (Minister, MLR), IrinaBOKOVA (Director General of UNESCO), Margareta WAHLSTRÖM (Special Representative of Secretary-General (SRSG) forDisaster Risk Reduction, head of UNISDR), José GRAZIANO DASILVA (Director-General of FAO), Michel JARRAUD (Secretary-General of WMO), Konrad OSTERWALDER (Rector of UNU),Yuan Tseh LEE (President of ICSU), Adel Al-Karafi (President ofWFEO), and Roland OBERHAENSLI (President of IUGS).

Chairpersons Min WANG (Vice Minister of MLR, Director ofCGS), Paolo CANUTI (President of ICL), and Kyoji SASSA (Exec-utive Director of ICL).

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General informationFive hundred thirty-one participants, including registrants, VIPs,exhibitors, and secretariat and main staff, from 40 countries and 5organizations of the United Nations system, attended the WLF3

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that was held at the China National Conventions Center, Beijing,on June 2–6, 2014. Table 1 presents the number and percentage ofregistrants from each country.

Plenary sessions

Opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony was facilitated by Jiang Jianjun, Director ofInternational Cooperation and Science & Technology Department,MRL. On behalf of the organizing committee, Wang Min, the ViceMinister of MLR, made a welcome address and introduced nation-al policies and strategy on geo-hazards mitigation in China. Heemphasized that China would like to strengthen collaboration withother countries and international and regional organizations inthe area. Paolo Canuti, former President of the ICL, delivered a

speech on landslide risk reduction and creating a safer geo-envi-ronment. Figure 1 (middle and bottom) shows photos of theopening ceremony.

High-level panel discussionA high-level panel discussion on initiative to create a safer geo-environment toward WCDRR 2015 and forward was moderated byHans van Ginkel, Chair of Independent Panel of Experts for WorldCenters of Excellence (WCoE). A series of presentations weredelivered.

The panelists were Han Qunli (Director of the Division ofEcological and Earth Sciences of UNESCO), Feng Min Kan(Head of the Asian Pacific Office of UNISDR), Bruce Stewart(Director, Climate and Water Dept. of WMO), Wen Dongguang

Table 1 Participants of the WLF3

No. Country Participants Percentage No. Country Participants Percentage

1 Albania 1 0.19 24 New Zealand 5 0.94

2 Austria 7 1.32 25 Netherland 1 0.19

3 Belgium 1 0.19 26 Norway 6 1.13

4 Brazil 4 0.75 27 Poland 7 1.32

5 BruneiDarussalam

1 0.19 28 RussianFederation

10 1.88

6 Canada 7 1.32 29 Saudi Arabia 1 0.19

7 People’s Republicof China.

295 55.55 30 Serbia &Montenegro

2 0.38

8 Chinese Taipei 4 0.75 31 Slovakia 3 0.56

9 Colombia 1 0.19 32 Slovenia 2 0.38

10 Croatia 5 0.94 33 South Africa 2 0.38

11 Czech Republic 7 1.32 34 Sri Lanka 4 0.75

12 France 4 0.75 35 Sweden 2 0.38

13 Germany 9 1.69 36 Switzerland 4 0.75

14 Greece 1 0.19 37 Thailand 4 0.75

15 Honduras 1 0.19 38 Turkey 4 0.75

16 India 2 0.38 39 UK 5 0.94

17 Indonesia 2 0.38 40 USA 5 0.94

18 Italy 34 6.40 UN Organizations

19 Japan 30 5.65 1 FAO 2 0.38

20 Korea(Republic of)

22 4.14 2 UNESCO 8 1.51

21 Malaysia 7 1.32 3 UNISDR 1 0.19

22 Mexico 5 0.94 4 UNU 1 0.19

23 Nepal 1 0.19 5 WMO 1 0.19

Totalparticipants

531 100

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(Director, Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology Dept. ofCGS), David Johnston (Chair of ICSU, Science Committee of theIntegrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)), and Kyoji Sassa(Executive Director of ICL). Accomplishments on landslide riskmitigation by different organizations were introduced, and rec-ommendations for further works were put forward. In a specialaddress, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, mentionedthat countries should be united to work against the naturaldisasters and the UNESCO would like to further deepen coop-eration with ICL. Figure 1 presents a photo of panelists andother VIPs in the opening session.

Presenters and presentation titles in the panel discussion werethe following:

& Qunli Han (UNESCO), Remarks for UNESCO and InternationalConsortium on Landslides

& Feng Min Kan (UNISDR), Towards a Post-2015 Framework forDisaster Risk Reduction;

& Bruce Stewart (WMO), A Safer Geo-environment: Prevention,Preparedness, Response and Mitigation - Resilience;

& Wen Dongguang (CGS), Landslide Survey and Monitoring inChina;

& David Johnston (ICSU), IRDR: An Introduction;

& Kyoji Sassa (ICL), ICL-IPL and its proposal of 2014 BeijingDeclaration to Develop a Safer Geo-environment.

Recognition of WCoE and IPL awards for successAfter the panelist presentations, certificates for 15 World Centresof Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction 2014–2017 and two IPLAwards for Success were conferred from UNESCO Director-General Ms Irina Bokova to each leader (Tables 2 and 3). Figure 2shows the photo of the conferment from UNESCO-Director

Fig. 1 Opening Session of the World Landslide Forum 3 Members of high-level panel discussion including an honorary Chairperson Irina Bokova (Director-General ofUNUESCO), Chairperson Min Wang (Vice Minister of Land and Resources in China, panelists and others from UNISDR, WMO, ICSU as well as ICL and IPL (top) andparticipants in the opening session (middle and bottom)

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General to one of the 15 identified WCoEs and also to one of theleaders of two IPL Awards for Success.

Keynote lectures “Progress in Landslide Science”Chairs: Luciano Picarelli (Italy) and Alexander Strom (Russia)

Speakers and lectures:

Runqiu Huang (National Key Laboratory of Geological Haz-ards Environment Protection, China), Progress in Large-ScaleLandslide Studies in ChinaRex Baum (USGS, USA), Progress in Regional Landslide Haz-ard Assessment—Examples from the USAKyoji Sassa (ICL), Progress in Landslide Dynamics

Table 2 List of WCoEs 2014–2017

No. Country/region Leader/contact person Short title Organization

1 China Wei Shan Formation mechanism research,disaster warning, and universaleducation of Cold RegionsLandslide

Research Center of Cold RegionsLandslide

2 China WANG Min/YIN Yueping Scientific research for mitigation,preparedness and risk assessmentof landslides

China Geological Survey

3 Croatia Željko Arbanas/SnježanaMihalić Arbanas

Landslide Risk Reduction in theAdriatic-Balkan Region through theRegional Cooperation

Croatian Landslide Group

4 Czech Republic Josef Stemberk Landslide risk assessment anddevelopment guidelines foreffective risk reduction

Institute of Rock Structure andMechanics Czech Academy ofSciences & Charles University,Faculty of Science

5 Indonesia Dwikorita Karnawati Development of Community-basedand Most Adaptive Technology forLandslide Risk Reduction.

Universitas Gadjah Mada

6 Italy Nicola Casagli/Veronica Tofani Advanced Technologies for LandSlides(ATLaS)

Department of Earth Sciences,University of Florence

7 Japan Daisuke Higaki Emergency Response Support Systemfor Large-scale Landslide Disasters

The Japan Landslide Society (JLS)

8 Japan Hideaki Marui Risk identification and land-useplanning for disaster mitigation oflandslides

Niigata University, Research Institutefor Natural Hazards and DisasterRecovery

9 Malaysia Che Hassandi Abdullah/Loretta Nihol

Implementation of National SlopeMaster Plan

Slopes Engineering Branch, PublicWorks Department of Malaysia

10 Nigeria Ogbonnaya Igwe Building human capacities andexpertise in landslide disaster riskmanagement

Department of Geology, University ofNigeria, Nsukka

11 Russia Alexander Strom International Summer School onRockslides and Related Phenomenain the Kokomeren River Valley,Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan

Geodynamics Research Center – branchof JSC "Hydroproject Institute" &Institute of Seismology of NationalAcademy of Sciences of KyrgyzRepublic

12 Slovenia Ana Petkovšek Mechanisms of landslides and creep inover-consolidated clays and flysch

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civiland Geodetic Engineering (UL FGG)

13 Sri Lanka Nihal Rupasinghe Developing model policy frameworks,standards, and guidelines

Central Engineering ConsultancyBureau

14 Chinese Taipei Liang-Jenq Leu/Ko-Fei Liu Scientific research for landslide riskanalysis, modeling, mitigation andeducation

Department of Civil Engineering,National Taiwan University

15 Thailand N.M.S.I. Arambepola “Promoting Knowledge, Innovationsand Institutions with South-Southfocus through a Regional networkof Landslide Risk Reduction inChanging Climate Scenario in Asia”

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center(ADPC),

Information of WCoEs is available from http://iplhq.org/category/iplhq/world-centre-of-excellence-wcoe/

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Anders Solheim (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)) andFarrokh Nadim (International Centre for Geohazards (ICG),Norway), Progress of Living with Landslide Risk in Europe

Parallel sessions and events from 4 June to the morning of 6 June 2014On June 3–6, 360 presentations were delivered in 42 sessions whichare listed in Table 4.

Technical sessions (A, B, C sessions) Twenty-four technical ses-sions were organized. Submitted, reviewed, and accepted paperswere published in three volumes of full color books.

Discussion sessions (D sessions) There were 14 discussion ses-sions. One hundred twenty-three papers were accepted by theeditorial committee of the mono-color proceedings and were pub-lished as the source of discussion in the discussion session volumeof the WLF3 proceedings in China.

Table 3 IPL Award for Success

No. Leader/projects Institution/country

1 Wei Shan Research Center of Cold Regions Landslide/China

IPL Projects IPL-132 Research on vegetation protection system for highway soil slope in seasonal frozen regions(2008-present)

IPL-167 The effect of freezing-thawing on the stability of ancient landslide of North-Black highway(2009-present)

2 Ogbonnaya Igwe Department of Geology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka/Nigeria

IPL Projects IPL-150 Capacity building and the impact of climate-driven changes on regional landslide distribution,frequency and scale of catastrophe (2010 - present) IPL-183 Landslides in West Africa: impacts,mechanism and management (2012-present)

Information of the on-going IPL projects is available from http://iplhq.org/category/iplhq/ipl-ongoingproject/

Fig. 2 Certificate of the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoE) 2014–2017 was conferred from Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova toDwikirita Karnawati, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, leader of one of 15 identified WCoE 2014–2017 (top) IPL Awards for Success was given to the IPL project leader(Ogbonnaya Igwe) from Department of Geology, University of Nigeria. S. Diop received the US$3000 award from Director-General of UNESCO on behalf of O. Igwe(bottom)

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Table 4 Parallel sessions and themes

Technical sessions Special sessions A1: International Programme on Landslides (IPL Projects and WCOE)

A2: Thematic and Regional Networks on Landslides

A3: Policy, Legislation, and guidelines on Landslides

A4: Climate & Landuse Change Impacts on Landslides

A5: Recognition and Mechanics of Landslides

A6: General Landslide Studies

Methods of landslide studies B1:Physical modeling and material testing

B2: Application of numerical modeling techniques to landslides

B3: Remote sensing techniques for landslide mapping and monitoring

B4: Hazard mapping

B5: Monitoring, predicting and warning of landslides

B6: Risk assessment

B7: Remedial measures & prevention works

B8: Risk reduction strategy

B9:Inventory and database

Targeted landslide C1: Debris flows

C2: Rock-slope instability and failure

C3: Earthquake-induced landslides

C4: Rain-induced landslides

C5: Landslides in cultural/natural heritage sites

C6: Urban landslides

C7: Landslides in cold regions

C8: Landslides in coastal and submarine environments

C9: Natural dams and landslides in reservoirs

Side events S1: Student session

S2: Dialogue on country landslide issues, SATREPS

S3: ICL teaching tool

S4: Free discussion session on side event teaching tool, country landslide issues including theSATREPS project

Discussion sessions D1: Rain-induced landslides

D2: Rain-induced landslides

D3: Remote sensing techniques

D4: Recognition and mechanics of landslides

D5: Rock slope stability

D6: Building resilient landscapes (FAO)

D7: Natural dam and landslides in reservoirs

D8: Debris flows

D9: Physical and numerical modeling

D10: Monitoring, prediction, and warning of landslides

D11: Risk assessment and remedial measure

D12: Inventory and earthquake-induced landslides

D13: General landslides studies (part 1)

D14: General landslides studies (part 2)

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Side events (S sessions) Presentation and roundtable discussionfor specific topics; student sessions, ICL landslide teaching tools,dialogues on country landslide issues and roundtable free discus-sion on further development of ICL teaching tools, and countrylandslide issue and other topics.

Roundtable discussion at 1400–1540 hours on 6 June 2014A roundtable discussion was conducted in the afternoon of thefinal day.

Chair: Giuseppe Arduino (UNESCO), Matjaz Mikos (ICL),and Satoru Nishikawa (Japan Water Agency, Post-2015 Frame-work Advisory Group)

Panelists: Wolfgang Eder (ICL Technical Advisor, Germany),Thomas Hofer (Forest Department of FAO), Marco Komac(ICL Board Member, Vice President of IUGS), AlexandrosMakarigakis (Cross-Cutting Thematic Unit on Disaster RiskReduction of UNESCO), Claudio Margottini (ICL Vice Presi-dent and Chair of the Second World Landslide Forum, Italy),and Bruce Stewart (Director, Climate and Water Departmentof WMO)

Major achievements in WLF3 were summarized as a devel-opment milestone of the ICL. Worldwide strategies of land-slide risk mitigation were discussed including the furtherdevelopment toward WLF4. The “2014 Beijing Declaration—

Fig. 3 2014 Varnes Medal conferred to Luciano Picalleri (Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy) (top-left), 2013 Best Paper Award provided to Rex Baum on behalf of Staley,Kean, Cannon, Schmidt, and Laber (Landslides, 10–5: 547–562) (top-right). Student Award (US$200) provided to Hendy Setiawan (Indonesia), a graduate student ofKyoto University, Japan (middle-left). Certificates were given to new ICL members in 2013–2014, the middle-right photo is R.M.S Bandara from the National BuildingResearch Organization, Sri Lanka. Many young individuals from China voluntarily contributed to the organization of WLF3. A group photo was taken together withparticipants after all events were completed (bottom)

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Landslide Risk Mitigation: Toward a Safer Geoenvironment”was adopted after some amendments. Proposal of the 2015ICL-IPL Sendai Partnership was also brought up. The adoptedBeijing Declaration is listed at the end of this article.

Closing ceremonyThe closing ceremony was preceded by President Paolo Canutiand Executive Director Kyoji Sassa. Firstly, Yueping Yin (ChinaGeological Survey, China), the incoming President, presented hisplan for his term starting from 1 January 2015. Then, four VicePresidents to be working with the new President were introduced.

After that, each Vice President talked his/her goals in their forth-coming term. The four Vice Presidents for the forthcoming termare Claudio Margottini, Italian Geological Survey, Italy (the secondterm from 1 January 2014), Irasema Alcantara-Ayala, InstituteGeography, UNAM, Mexico (the second term from 1 January2015), Matjaz Mikos, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (the firstterm from 1 January 2015), and Dwikorita Karnatati, Gadjah MadaUniversity, Indonesia (the first term from 1 January 2015). Then,the following awards and certificates were conferred.

Varnes Medal 2014 Varnes Medal was conferred to LucianoPicarelli, Professor of the Seconda Università di Napoli. He

Table 5 Contents of full color books

Volume 1 The International Programme on Landslides

Part I Plenary Lectures

Part II International Programme on Landslides

Part III Thematic and Regional Networks on Landslides

Part IV Policy, Legislation and Guidelines on Landslides

Part V Climate & Landuse Change Impacts on Landslides

Part VI Recognition and Mechanics of Landslide

Part VII General Landslide Studies

Part VIII Side Events

Volume 2 Methods of Landslide Studies

Part I Physical Modeling and Material Testing

Part II Application of Numerical Modeling Techniques to Landslides

Part III Remote Sensing Techniques For Landslide Mapping and Monitoring

Part IV Hazard Mapping

Part V Monitoring, Prediction and Warning Of Landslides

Part VI Risk Assessment

Part VII Remedial Measures & Prevention Works

Part VIII Risk Reduction Strategy

Part IX Landslide Inventory and Database

Volume 3 Targeted Landslides

Part I Debris Flows

Part II Rock-Slope Instability and Failure

Part III Earthquake-Induced Landslides

Part IV Rain-Induced Landslides

Part V Landslides in Cultural/Natural Heritage Sites

Part VI Urban Landslides

Part VII Landslides in Cold Regions

Part VIII Landslide in Coastal And Submarine Environments

Part IX Natural Dams and Landslides in Reservoirs

In addition to three full color proceedings, volume 4, a mono-color proceeding for discussion session, was published by the Chinese Organizing Committee. The volume contains 123full papers in 730 pages

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delivered a short talk (Fig. 3 top-left). Varnes Medal is thehighest award of ICL. The past recipients of Varnes Medal arethe following:

2003, Robert Schuster (US Geological Survey, USA)2004, John Hutchinson (Imperial Colleague, UK)2005, Masami Fukuoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)2006, Norbert R. Morgenstern (University of Alberta,Canada)2007, Edward Derybyshire (University of Leicester, UK)2008, David Cruden (University of Alberta, Canada)2010, Zaiguan Lin (Leader of China-Japan Join Research onLandslide Hazard Assessment at Cultural Heritage sites inXi’an, China)2012, Rajendra Kumar Bhandari (Central Building ResearchInstitute, India)

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award was given to the authorsD.M. Staley, J.W. Kean, S.H. Cannon, K.M. Schmidt, and J.L. Laberfor their paper “Objective definition of rainfall intensity—duration thresholds for the initiation of post-fire debris flows insouthern California” published in Volume 10 (2013) of Landslides,no 5, pp. 547–562. Rex Baum of the U.S Geological Survey receivedthe plaque and the certificate on behalf of his colleagues in USGS(Fig. 3 top-right).Two papers were selected as the Best Paper Award for 2012. Byutilizing the opportunity of World Landslide Forum 3, the plaquesand the certificates were also conferred to two best paper awardsfor 2012, as follows.

1. N.M. Pinyol, E.E. Alonso, J. Corominas and J. Moya: Canelleslandslide: modelling rapid drawdown and fast potential sliding(Vol. 9, No. 1)

2. R. Sosio, G.B. Crosta and O. Hungr: Numerical modeling ofdebris avalanche propagation from collapse of volcanic edi-fices (Vol. 9, No. 3)

Student Award and certificates to new ICL members A newstudent session was introduced in this forum. Hendy Setiawan(Indonesia), a graduate student of Kyoto University, was se-lected for the student award (Fig. 3 middle-left). Moreover,new ICL members also received their membership certificates.The middle-left of Fig. 3 shows R.M.S Bandara as a new ICLmember “National Building Research Organization, SriLanka.” The last photo is a group photo of volunteers work-ing for the organization and implementation of the WorldLandslide Forum 3 and participants attending the closingceremony.

Post-forum field trip Thirty-two participants from 17 countries,including UK, Switzerland, Poland, Norway, Austria ,Czech Republic, Russia, and China joined the post-forum fieldtrips in Wenchuan M 8.0 Earthquake area and the Three GorgesReservoir area.

T2 Catastrophic landslides triggered by the Wenchuan M 8.0Earthquake and Reconstruction, June 7–10

T3 Landslide Prevention and Early Warning at the Three GorgesReservoir, June 7–10

PublicationsAll accepted papers after peer review and editing were published inthree volumes (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3, with 2144 pages) of the fullcolor book Landslide Science for a Safer Geenvironment by Spring-er, which were distributed to all participants of the World Land-slide Forum.

Front pages for all volumes:

Foreword for International Consortium on Landslides byIrina Bokova, Director General of UNESCOForeword by Margareta WAHLSTRÖM, Special Representa-tive of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster RiskReductionPreface: Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment—Proceedings of the Third World Landslide Forum by KyojiSassa, Paolo Canuti, Yueping YinActivities of the International Programme on Landslides(IPL)—IPL Projects and World Centres of Excellence onLandslide Risk Reduction (WCoE) by Matjaž Mikoš andSnježana Mihaljić Arbanas

Back pages for all volumes:

Landslide Technology and Engineering in Support of Land-slide Science by Kyoji SassaProceedings were edited by session editors. Papers acceptedin each session were published as parts for each volume aspresented in Table 5.

2014 Beijing Declaration “Landslide Risk Mitigation: Toward a SaferGeoenvironment”The high-level panel discussion put forward the draft of the2014 Beijing Declaration based on the previous examination in2013 ICL-IPL Conference held at Shiran Kaikan, Kyoto Univer-sity, on 19–22 November 2013 to the participants of the WorldLandslide Forum 3. After the examination during the forum, itwas further examined during the roundtable discussion andadopted by the participants after discussion and amendmentsby panelists and floor on the final day of the forum. The aim ofthis declaration is to establish ICL-IPL Sendai Partnerships inthe Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (3rdWCDRR) to take place in Sendai, Japan, March 2015. It isexpected that this partnership will shape the future global co-operation platform for landslide risk reduction. This partner-ship is now being examined in the planned working session forWCDRR. The partnerships may be expanded to landslides andother related Disaster Risk Reduction during joint examinationtogether with possible partners. We will report its progress inthe next issues of Landslides.

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The 2014 Beijing Declaration

Landslide Risk Mitigation

Toward a Safer Geo-environment

1. The World Landslide Forum III was convened in Beijing, China, from 3 to 6 June 2014 by the International Consortium onLandslides (ICL) and the China Geological Survey with the sponsorship of the Global Promotion Committee of the Interna-tional Programme on Landslides (IPL) and the Ministry of Land and Resources of the People’s Republic of China, and withsupport from other organizations. Five hundred thirty-one participants came from 211 national and international technical andscientific organizations*, representing 40 countries, and 5 organizations of the United Nations system. They examined howscientific knowledge and technical know-how can, on a global scale, be further applied to policy-making and practice forlandslide Disaster Risk Reduction and resilience building.

2. The participants underline that landslides, occurring on land and at sea, pose considerable risks to humankind, disruptingsocietal functions and derailing economic gains. They threaten people’s lives and livelihoods by destroying buildings,transportation, and other networks as well as cultural and natural heritage, affecting communities and their economy. It isoften the poorest people who are most seriously affected by these dramatic events.

3. The participants observe that landslides are a complex natural phenomenon that can be triggered by earthquakes, volcaniceruptions, heavy and recurrent rainfall, typhoons, hurricanes, and snowmelt, sometimes exacerbated by unregulated anthro-pogenic developments such as roads, waterworks, and mining. Submarine landslides are able to generate tsunamis andrepresent a hazard to coastal areas.

4. The participants acknowledge the fact that global climate change is expected to increasingly affect the frequency and extentof heavy rainfall at a local and regional level. Combined effects of natural phenomena and human adverse activities, associatedwith a rise in the vulnerability of the human and physical environment, are increasing landslide risk in the world.Understanding landslides, their associated risks and the vulnerability of societies, requires an integrated and multidisciplinaryapproach including contributions from natural, social, and engineering sciences and local knowledge.

5. The participants assessed the activities developed and implemented in pursuance of the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan andthe 2008 Tokyo Declaration and commit to pursue their further implementation in line with the 2012 ICL Strategic Plan2012–2021. They agreed on an initiative to further strengthen international networking and partnerships in science andtechnology on landslides toward a safer geo-environment in support of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

6. The participants endorse the plans to organize an ICL-IPL Conference as part of the Third World Conference on DisasterRisk Reduction (3rd WCDRR) to take place in Sendai, Japan, March 2015. They urge the ICL-IPL Sendai Conference to defineand adopt concrete actions which will be carried out by international networks and partnerships, of public and privateinstitutions, in science and technology, the ICL-IPL Sendai Partnerships, to help achieve the ISDR goals.

A Call7. The participants invite related governmental, nongovernmental, and international programs, and initiatives from natural,

engineering, human, social, and economical sciences, public and private, to promote science and technology and theirapplications for Landslide Risk Mitigation by joining the ICL-IPL Sendai Partnerships aimed at enhancing capacities, inparticular in the developing world, to reduce risk and vulnerabilities and build resilience related with landslides, also throughformal and informal education, and contribute to a safer geo-environment in support of the International Strategy for DisasterReduction.

ANNEX to the 2014 Beijing Declaration: Landslide Risk Mitigation: Toward a Safer Geo-environment*List of participating organizations

A. ICL Supporting OrganizationsUNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization

WMO: World Meteorological OrganizationFAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsUNISDR: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction,UNU: United Nations UniversityICSU: International Council for ScienceIUGS: International Union of Geological SciencesB. ICL Member InstitutionsAlbanian Geological Survey, Albania

Geological Survey of Canada, CanadaChina Geological Survey, People’s Republic of ChinaNortheast Forestry University, People’s Republic of ChinaInstitute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Acad-emy of Sciences, People’s Republic of China

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ColombiaCroatian Landslide Group from University of Rijeka and Uni-versity of Zagreb, Croatia

City of Zagreb, Emergency Management Office, CroatiaCharles University, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic,Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission

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Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Institute and Laboratory ofGeotechnics, Germany

Gadjah Mada University, IndonesiaUniversity of Firenze, Earth Sciences Department, ItalyISPRA-Italian Institute form Environmental Protection andResearch, Italy

University of Calabria, Laboratory of Environmental Cartographyand Hydraulic and Geological Modeling, Italy

Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, JapanNiigata University, Research Institute for Natural Hazards andDisaster Recovery, Japan

Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM),Republic of Korea

Korea Infrastructure Safety & Technology Corporation, Republicof Korea

Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Republic of KoreaKorean Society of Forest Engineering, Republic of KoreaSlope Engineering Branch, Public Works Department of MalaysiaNorwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo, NorwayDepartment of Engineering and Ecological Geology, Moscow

State University, RussiaJSC “Hydroproject Institute” RussiaRussian Academy of Sciences, Sergeev Institute of Environmental

Geoscience (IEG RAS), RussiaUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology, SerbiaComenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department

of Engineering Geology, SlovakiaUniversity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil andGeodetic Engineering

(ULFGG), SloveniaGeological Survey of Slovenia, SloveniaEngineering Geoscience Unit, Council for Geoscience, South AfricaCentral Engineering Consultancy Bureau (CECB), Sri LankaNational Building Research Organization, Sri LankaNational Taiwan University, Department of Civil Engineering,

Chinese TaipeiAsian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), ThailandInstitute of Transport Science and Technology, Viet Nam

C. Other organizationsUniversity of Vienna, AustriaInstitute of Applied Geology, BOKU University, AustriaAIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, AustriaAustrian Service in Torrent and Avalanche Control, AustriaUniversity of Liege, BelgiumUniversity of Rio de Janeiro State, BrazilUniversity of Campinas, BrazilRio de Janeiro Geological Survey, BrazilPublic Works Department, BruneiSNC-Lavalin, CanadaUniversity of Northern British Columbia, CanadaCentre for Natural Hazards Research, Simon Fraser University,

CanadaUniversity of Waterloo, CanadaAnhui University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic

of China

Beijing Jiaotong University, People’s Republic of ChinaBeijing University of Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaCCCC Highway Planning and Design Institute co., LTD,

People’s Republic of ChinaCenter for Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, CGS,

People’s Republic of ChinaChang’an University, People’s Republic of ChinaChengdu Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic

of ChinaChengdu Istitue of Geology and Mineral Resources, People’s

Republic of ChinaChengdu University of Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaChina Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Centre for

Land & Resources, People’s Republic of ChinaChina Earthquake Networks Center, People’s Republic of ChinaChina Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research,

People’s Republic of ChinaChina Ordnance Industry Survey and Geotechnical Institute,

People’s Republic of ChinaChina Three Gorges University, People’s Republic of ChinaChina University of Geosciences, People’s Republic of ChinaChina University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, People’s

Republic of ChinaChinese Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic of ChinaChongqing Exploration & Design Institute of Geological Hazard

Control Engineering, People’s Republic of ChinaChongqing Geological Survey, People’s Republic of ChinaChongqing Survey & Design Institute of Geological Hazard

Control Engineering, People’s Republic of ChinaChongqing Yangtze River Engineering Survey and Design In-

stitute, People’s Republic of ChinaDalian University of Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaFugro Geotechnical Services Ltd., People’s Republic of ChinaGansu Construction Vocational Technical College, People’s Re-

public of ChinaGansu Geological Environmental Monitoring Institute, People’s

Republic of ChinaGeological EnvironmentMonitoring Station of Chongqing, People’s

Republic of ChinaGeological Environmental Monitoring Institute in Gansu

Province, People’s Republic of ChinaGeological Hazards Institute, Gansu, Academy of Science,

People’s Republic of ChinaGeological Hazards Prevention Institute, Gansu Academy of

Sciences, People’s Republic of ChinaGeology Survey Center of Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic

of ChinaInstitute of Exploration Technology, CAGS, People’s Republicof China

Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic of China

Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academic ofScience, People’s Republic of China

Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, People’sRepublic of China

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Institute of Geomechanics, CAGS, People’s Republic of ChinaInstitute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People’sRepublic of China

JiangXi Province ShangRao City Land Resources Bureau,People’s Republic of China

Jundun System Science and Technology CO. LTD, People’sRepublic of China

Lanzhou University, People’s Republic of ChinaLogistical Engineering University, People’s Republic of ChinaNanjiang Hydrogeological & Engineering Geology Brigade,

People’s Republic of ChinaNanjing Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic

of ChinaNanjing University, People’s Republic of ChinaOcean University of China, People’s Republic of ChinaSchool of Geology Engineering and Geomatics, People’s

Republic of ChinaShandong University, People’s Republic of ChinaShanghai Jiao Tong University, People’s Republic of ChinaShanxi geological environment monitoring center, People’s

Republic of ChinaSichuan Geological Survey 909 Geological Brigade, People’sRepublic of China

Southwest Jiaotong University, People’s Republic of ChinaSouthwest Petroleum University, People’s Republic of ChinaSouthwest University of Science and Technology, People’s

Republic of ChinaSpringer Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaState Chengdu University of Technology, People’s Republic ofChina

The China Meteorological Administration Public MeteorologicalService Center, People’s Republic of China

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, People’s Republic ofChina

The Institute of Crustal Dynamics, People’s Republic of ChinaThe Nuclear Industry Geological Survey 282 Geological

Brigade, People’s Republic of ChinaThe Three Gorges Hazard Prevention Office, People’s Republic

of ChinaThe University of Hong Kong, People’s Republic of ChinaThe Yangtze River Water Resources Commission Yangtze River

Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic of ChinaTian Jin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, People’sRepublic of China

Tongji University, People’s Republic of ChinaWuhan Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic of

ChinaXi’an Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic ofChina

Xi’an Jiaotong University, Department of Civil Engineering,Xi'an, People’s Republic of China

Xi'an Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic ofChina

Yunnan Institute of Geological Environmental Monitoring,People’s Republic of China

National Central University, Chinese TaipeiUniversity of Ostrava, Czech RepublicIns t i tu te o f In fo rmat ion Theory and Automat ion ,

Czech RepublicARCADIS Geotechnika a.s, Czech RepublicAlbert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, GermanyUniversity of Bremen, GermanyUniversity of Vechta, ISPA, GermanyGerman Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ), Potsdam,

GermanyUniversity of Thessaly, GreeceJICA Honduras Office, HondurasMizoram University, Pachhunga University College, IndiaNational Institute of Technology Hamirpur, H.P., IndiaCMCCCentro Euro-Mediterraneo sui cambiamenti climatici, ItalyCNR-IRPI, National Research Council, ItalyComuhedi Amcoma, ItalyDepartment of Earth and Environment Sciences, University of

Pavia, ItalyDIFA, University of Bologna, ItalyInstitute for the Conservation and Valorization of Cultural Heritage(ICVBC), National Research Council (CNR), ItalyMaccaferri, Italy

National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics(OGS), Italy

Seconda Università di Napoli, ItalyUniversity of Milano Bicocca, ItalyAdvantecnology Co., Ltd, JapanAsia Air Survey Co., Ltd., JapanAsian Institute of Space Information, JapanEhime University, JapanGraduate School of Science, Kyoto University, JapanGunma University, JapanHirosaki University, JapanInternational Consortium on Landslides, JapanJapan Water Agency, JapanKochi University, JapanKyoto University, JapanNational Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, JapanNiigata University, JapanNippon KOEI CO., LTD., JapanShimane University, JapanTohoku Gakuin University, JapanDept. of Ocean Engineering, Pukyong National University, KoreaGangneung-Wonju National University, KoreaInstitute of Construction Technolgy, KoreaKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),

KoreaPukyong National University, KoreaSejong University, KoreaSeoul National University, KoreaUniversity of Seoul, KoreaUniversiti Sains Malaysia, MalaysiaMySTAR, Malaysia

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Universiti Sains Malaysia, MalaysiaUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia, MalaysiaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MexicoPractical Action, NepalGNS Science, New ZealandUniversity of Canterbury, New ZealandGeological Survey of Norway, NorwayNorwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, NorwayNorwegian Geotechnical Institute, NorwayNorwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE),

NorwayInstitute of Opencast Mining “Poltegor-Institute,” Ministry of

the Environment, PolandPolish Geological Institute—National Research Institute, PolandChuvash State University, RussiaEarth Cryosphere Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,

Siberian Branch, RussiaInstitute of Geology and Mineralogy, SB RAS, RussiaKuban State University, RussiaTyumen State Oil and Gas University, Russia

King Abdulaziz University, Saudi ArabiaState Geological Institute of D. Stúr, SlovakiaDe Laih South Africa (Pty) Ltd, South AfricaUniversity of Peradeniya, Sri LankaStockholm University, SwedenSwiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich,

SwitzerlandSwiss Federal Research Institute WSL, SwitzerlandGEOTEST AG, SwitzerlandSuranaree University of Technology, ThailandMiddle East Technical University (METU), TurkeyTuzunw Yil University, TurkeyHacettepe University, TurkeyTransport Research Laboratory (TRL), UKBritish Geological Survey, UKUniversity of Bath, UKUniversity of Southampton, UKCalifornia State University, Fullerton, USAU.S. Geological Survey, USAVisual Slope, LLC, USA

The 2014 Beijing Declaration

Landslide Risk Mitigation

Toward a Safer Geo-environment

1. The World Landslide Forum III was convened in Beijing, China, from 3 to 6 June 2014 by the International Consortium onLandslides (ICL) and the China Geological Survey with the sponsorship of the Global Promotion Committee of theInternational Programme on Landslides (IPL) and the Ministry of Land and Resources of the People’s Republic of China,and with support from other organizations. Five hundred thirty-one participants came from 211 national and internationaltechnical and scientific organizations*, representing 40 countries, and 5 organizations of the United Nations system. Theyexamined how scientific knowledge and technical know-how can, on a global scale, be further applied to policy-making andpractice for landslide Disaster Risk Reduction and resilience building.

2. The participants underline that landslides, occurring on land and at sea, pose considerable risks to humankind, disruptingsocietal functions and derailing economic gains. They threaten people’s lives and livelihoods by destroying buildings,transportation, and other networks as well as cultural and natural heritage, affecting communities and their economy. It isoften the poorest people who are most seriously affected by these dramatic events.

3. The participants observe that landslides are a complex natural phenomenon that can be triggered by earthquakes, volcaniceruptions, heavy and recurrent rainfall, typhoons, hurricanes, and snowmelt, sometimes exacerbated by unregulated anthro-pogenic developments such as roads, waterworks, and mining. Submarine landslides are able to generate tsunamis andrepresent a hazard to coastal areas.

4. The participants acknowledge the fact that global climate change is expected to increasingly affect the frequency andextent of heavy rainfall at a local and regional level. Combined effects of natural phenomena and human adverse activities,associated with a rise in the vulnerability of the human and physical environment, are increasing landslide risk in the world.Understanding landslides, their associated risks and the vulnerability of societies, requires an integrated and multidisciplin-ary approach including contributions from natural, social, and engineering sciences and local knowledge.

5. The participants assessed the activities developed and implemented in pursuance of the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan and the2008 Tokyo Declaration and commit to pursue their further implementation in line with the 2012 ICL Strategic Plan 2012–2021. They agreed on an initiative to further strengthen international networking and partnerships in science and technologyon landslides toward a safer geo-environment in support of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

6. The participants endorse the plans to organize an ICL-IPL Conference as part of the Third World Conference on DisasterRisk Reduction (3rd WCDRR) to take place in Sendai, Japan, March 2015. They urge the ICL-IPL Sendai Conference to define

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and adopt concrete actions which will be carried out by international networks and partnerships, of public and privateinstitutions, in science and technology, the ICL-IPL Sendai Partnerships, to help achieve the ISDR goals.

A Call7. The participants invite related governmental, nongovernmental, and international programs, and initiatives from natural,

engineering, human, social, and economical sciences, public and private, to promote science and technology and their applica-tions for Landslide Risk Mitigation by joining the ICL-IPL Sendai Partnerships aimed at enhancing capacities, in particular in thedeveloping world, to reduce risk and vulnerabilities and build resilience related with landslides, also through formal and informaleducation, and contribute to a safer geo-environment in support of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

ANNEX to the 2014 Beijing Declaration: Landslide Risk Mitigation: Toward a Safer Geo-environment*List of participating organizations

A. ICL Supporting OrganizationsUNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

OrganizationWMO: World Meteorological OrganizationFAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United

NationsUNISDR: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction,UNU: United Nations UniversityICSU: International Council for ScienceIUGS: International Union of Geological Sciences

B. ICL Member InstitutionsAlbanian Geological Survey, AlbaniaGeological Survey of Canada, CanadaChina Geological Survey, People’s Republic of ChinaNortheast Forestry University, People’s Republic of ChinaInstitute ofMountainHazards and Environment, ChineseAcad-

emy of Sciences, People’s Republic of ChinaUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, ColombiaCroatian Landslide Group from University of Rijeka and Uni-

versity of Zagreb, CroatiaCity of Zagreb, Emergency Management Office, CroatiaCharles University, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic,Joint Research Centre (JRC), European CommissionTechnische Universitat Darmstadt, Institute and Laboratory

of Geotechnics, GermanyGadjah Mada University, IndonesiaUniversity of Firenze, Earth Sciences Department, ItalyISPRA-Italian Institute form Environmental Protection and Re-

search, ItalyUniversity of Calabria, Laboratory of Environmental Cartogra-

phy and Hydraulic and Geological Modeling, ItalyKyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, JapanNiigata University, Research Institute for Natural Hazards

and Disaster Recovery, JapanKorea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources

(KIGAM), Republic of KoreaKorea Infrastructure Safety & Technology Corporation, Republic

of KoreaKorea Institute of Construction Technology, Republic of KoreaKorean Society of Forest Engineering, Republic of KoreaSlope Engineering Branch, Public Works Department of

MalaysiaNorwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo, Norway

Department of Engineering and Ecological Geology, MoscowState University, Russia

JSC “Hydroproject Institute” RussiaRussian Academy of Sciences, Sergeev Institute of Environ-

mental Geoscience (IEG RAS), RussiaUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology, SerbiaComenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department

of Engineering Geology, SlovakiaUniversity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil andGeodetic Engineering

(ULFGG), SloveniaGeological Survey of Slovenia, SloveniaEngineering Geoscience Unit, Council for Geoscience, South

AfricaCentral Engineering Consultancy Bureau (CECB), Sri LankaNational Building Research Organization, Sri LankaNational Taiwan University, Department of Civil Engineering,

Chinese TaipeiAsian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), ThailandInstitute of Transport Science and Technology, Viet Nam

C. Other organizationsUniversity of Vienna, AustriaInstitute of Applied Geology, BOKU University, AustriaAIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, AustriaAustrian Service in Torrent and Avalanche Control, AustriaUniversity of Liege, BelgiumUniversity of Rio de Janeiro State, BrazilUniversity of Campinas, BrazilRio de Janeiro Geological Survey, BrazilPublic Works Department, BruneiSNC-Lavalin, CanadaUniversity of Northern British Columbia, CanadaCentre for Natural Hazards Research, Simon Fraser University,

CanadaUniversity of Waterloo, CanadaAnhui University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic

of ChinaBeijing Jiaotong University, People’s Republic of ChinaBeijing University of Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaCCCCHighway Planning andDesign Institute co., LTD, People’s

Republic of ChinaCenter for Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, CGS,

People’s Republic of ChinaChang’an University, People’s Republic of China

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Chengdu Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republicof China

Chengdu Istitue of Geology and Mineral Resources, People’sRepublic of China

ChengduUniversity of Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaChina Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Centre

for Land & Resources, People’s Republic of ChinaChina Earthquake Networks Center, People’s Republic of ChinaChina Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research,

People’s Republic of ChinaChina Ordnance Industry Survey and Geotechnical Institute,

People’s Republic of ChinaChina Three Gorges University, People’s Republic of ChinaChina University of Geosciences, People’s Republic of ChinaChina University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, People’s

Republic of ChinaChinese Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic of ChinaChongqing Exploration & Design Institute of Geological

Hazard Control Engineering, People’s Republic of ChinaChongqing Geological Survey, People’s Republic of ChinaChongqing Survey & Design Institute of Geological Hazard

Control Engineering, People’s Republic of ChinaChongqing Yangtze River Engineering Survey and Design

Institute, People’s Republic of ChinaDalian University of Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaFugro Geotechnical Services Ltd., People’s Republic of ChinaGansu Construction Vocational Technical College, People’s

Republic of ChinaGansu Geological Environmental Monitoring Institute, People’s

Republic of ChinaGeological Environment Monitoring Station of Chongqing,

People’s Republic of ChinaGeological Environmental Monitoring Institute in Gansu

Province, People’s Republic of ChinaGeological Hazards Institute, Gansu, Academy of Science,

People’s Republic of ChinaGeological Hazards Prevention Institute, Gansu Academy of

Sciences, People’s Republic of ChinaGeology Survey Center of Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic

of ChinaInstitute of Exploration Technology, CAGS, People’s Republic

of ChinaInstitute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources

Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People’s Republicof China

Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academic ofScience, People’s Republic of China

Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, People’sRepublic of China

Institute of Geomechanics, CAGS, People’s Republic of ChinaInstitute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People’s

Republic of ChinaJiangXi Province ShangRao City Land Resources Bureau,

People’s Republic of ChinaJundun System Science and Technology CO. LTD, People’s

Republic of ChinaLanzhou University, People’s Republic of China

Logistical Engineering University, People’s Republic of ChinaNanjiang Hydrogeological & Engineering Geology Brigade,

People’s Republic of ChinaNanjing Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic

of ChinaNanjing University, People’s Republic of ChinaOcean University of China, People’s Republic of ChinaSchool ofGeologyEngineering andGeomatics, People’s Republic

of ChinaShandong University, People’s Republic of ChinaShanghai Jiao Tong University, People’s Republic of ChinaShanxi geological environment monitoring center, People’s

Republic of ChinaSichuan Geological Survey 909 Geological Brigade, People’s

Republic of ChinaSouthwest Jiaotong University, People’s Republic of ChinaSouthwest Petroleum University, People’s Republic of ChinaSouthwest University of Science and Technology, People’s

Republic of ChinaSpringer Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaState Chengdu University of Technology, People’s Republic

of ChinaThe China Meteorological Administration Public Meteorological

Service Center, People’s Republic of ChinaTheHongKong PolytechnicUniversity, People’s Republic of ChinaThe Institute of Crustal Dynamics, People’s Republic of ChinaThe Nuclear Industry Geological Survey 282 Geological Brigade,

People’s Republic of ChinaThe Three Gorges Hazard Prevention Office, People’s Republic

of ChinaThe University of Hong Kong, People’s Republic of ChinaThe Yangtze River Water Resources Commission Yangtze

River Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic of ChinaTian Jin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, People’s

Republic of ChinaTongji University, People’s Republic of ChinaWuhan Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic

of ChinaXi’an Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic

of ChinaXi’an Jiaotong University, Department of Civil Engineering,

Xi'an, People’s Republic of ChinaXi'an Center of Geological Survey, CGS, People’s Republic

of ChinaYunnan Institute of Geological Environmental Monitoring, Peo-

ple’s Republic of ChinaNational Central University, Chinese TaipeiUniversity of Ostrava, Czech RepublicInstitute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech RepublicARCADIS Geotechnika a.s, Czech RepublicAlbert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, GermanyUniversity of Bremen, GermanyUniversity of Vechta, ISPA, GermanyGerman Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ), Potsdam,

GermanyUniversity of Thessaly, GreeceJICA Honduras Office, Honduras

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AcknowledgmentsICL gratefully acknowledges strong supports from all partic-ipants, their organizations, and the host organization, Min-istry of Land and Resources, China. With supports from ICLsupporting organizations (UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR,UNU, ICSU, WFEO, and IUGS), voluntary efforts by ICLmember organizations and worldwide cooperators, ICL hasdeveloped, since its foundation in 2002, for research, capac-ity development and the edition of the journal Landslides.The success of the Third World Landslide Forum and corre-sponding publications is owed to those long-standing efforts.The authors on behalf of the International Consortium on

Landslides would extend their gratitude to those organiza-tions and individuals.

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