The International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) created at the Kyoto Symposium in January 2002 is an International non-governmental and non-profit scientific organization, which is supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR), and intergovernmental programmes such as the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO; the Government of Japan; and other governmental bodies. ICL was registered as a legal body under Japanese law for non-profit organizations in August 2002 in the Government of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The present domicile of the International Consortium on Landslides is Kyoto, Japan, where the Secretariat is located.

            　　

 Recent News of ICL

ICL International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley (Kyrgyzstan) will be held from July 30 to August 14 (see the announcement_2010, the guidebook(20MB) and PPT(55MB)).

A new book Landslides-Disaster Risk Reduction (Kyoji Sassa and Paolo Canuti Eds) was published in 2008 by ICL-Springer. It includes keynote lectures and contents of parallel sessions of the First World Landslide Forum together with ICL-IPL research activities.

All papers presented in parallel session and poster session of the First World Landslide Forum were uploaded in this web (Parallel session volume, poster session volume)

A book: Progress in Landslide Science (Kyoji Sassa, Hiroshi Fukuoka, Fawu Wang and Gonghi Wang Eds.) was published in 2007 by ICL-Springer.

8th ICL-BOR and 4th IPL-GPC and Planning Meeting of WLF-II at UNESCO, Paris on 17-19 November 2009. (See the announcement)

A New Category of reduced membership fee for universities, academic societies was created for developed countries (see the new ICL Registration Form 2009 (Word, pdf)

12 World Centres of Excellences for Landslide Risk Reduction were indentified at 3rd IPL Global Promotion Committee (See the List)

Passwords for Digital Access (TOKEN) to Landslides were allocated to ICL members (See the information letter. English, Japanese)

2009 Steering Committee meeting of ICL at FAO, Rome, Italy on 19-20 May 2009 (See the Agenda)

A new book: Progress in Landslide Science (Kyoji Sassa, Hiroshi Fukuoka, Fawu Wang and Gonghi Wang Eds.) was published by Springer.

The First Session of IPL Global Promotion Committee and the IPL Symposium 2007 (see Proceedings in PDF) were held on 22-25 January 2007 in UNU, Tokyo (Joint Photo).

5th ICL BOR in 2006 and 5th ICL Symposium (see Proceedings in PDF) was held on 23-24 November 2006 in UNESCO, Paris (Joint Photo), Director-General of UNESCO opens 5th session of International Consortium on Landslides (Opening address) (Also see UNESCO Flash Info N° 188-2006).

The launching ceremony of the organization Committee of the First World Landslide Forum was held in Tokyo on 22 August 2006 after the signing ceremony of MoU between UNESCO and ICL (Brief report with photo).

MoU between UNESCO and ICL, MoU between WFEO and ICL, MoU between WMO and ICL, MoU between UN/ISDR and ICL, MoU between UNU and ICL, MoU between ICSU and ICL, were signed.

The 2006 Second Steering Committee Meeting of ICL was held on 28-29 June 2006, at Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (Joint photo).

For strengthening research and learning on Earth System Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management within UN-ISDR as Regards "Landslides", and towards a Dynamic Global Network of International Programme on Landslides (IPL), a Round Table Discussion was held on 18-20 January 2006, at United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan(RTD-Full-Documents). As the result of the meeting, 2006 Tokyo Action Plan was adopted.

The Fourth Session of Board of Representatives and the First General Assembly of International Consortium on Landslides were successfully held on 12 -14 October 2005, at Keck Center of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., USA.

The International Workshop on Landslides in Machu Picchu was held in Machu Picchu, Cusco, Peru on 12-13 September, 2005.

ICL History and Activities by the President
From the book: "Landslides: -Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management" by Springer, 2005

Letter of Intent

ICL jointly proposed a “New International Initiatives for Research and Risk Mitigation of Floods (IFI) and Landslides (IPL)”

The 3^rd BOR of ICL was held in Bratislava, Slovakia

Call for Nomination of Varnes Medal

Call for IPL Success Award

 

 

 

 

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