The 4th World Landslide Forum: Landslide Research and Risk Reduction for Advancing the Culture of Living with Natural Hazards

Alcántara-Ayala, Irasema; Sassa, Kyoji; Mikoš, Matjaž; Han, Quinli; Rhyner, Jakob; Takara, Kaoru; Nishikawa, Sadakatsu; Rouhban, Badaoui; Briceño, Sálvano

doi:10.1007/s13753-017-0139-4

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“…These observations support previous research that fatal landslides are most prevalent in densely occupied urban centres (Alexander, 1989;Anderson, 1992;Petley, 2009), along roads (Hearn, 2011;Lee et al, 2018) and at sites rich in natural resources (Zou et al, 2018). In common with other natural hazards, the poor are disproportionately affected by landslides (Hallegatte et al, 2016).…”

Section: Volcanic Eruptionsupporting

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Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016

Froude

Petley

2018

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Landslides are a ubiquitous hazard in terrestrial environments with slopes, incurring human fatalities in urban settlements, along transport corridors and at sites of rural industry. Assessment of landslide risk requires high-quality landslide databases. Recently, global landslide databases have shown the extent to which landslides impact on society and identified areas most at risk. Previous global analysis has focused on rainfall-triggered landslides over short ∼ 5-year observation periods. This paper presents spatiotemporal analysis of a global dataset of fatal non-seismic landslides, covering the period from January 2004 to December 2016. The data show that in total 55 997 people were killed in 4862 distinct landslide events. The spatial distribution of landslides is heterogeneous, with Asia representing the dominant geographical area. There are high levels of interannual variation in the occurrence of landslides. Although more active years coincide with recognised patterns of regional rainfall driven by climate anomalies, climate modes (such as El Niño–Southern Oscillation) cannot yet be related to landsliding, requiring a landslide dataset of 30+ years. Our analysis demonstrates that landslide occurrence triggered by human activity is increasing, in particular in relation to construction, illegal mining and hill cutting. This supports notions that human disturbance may be more detrimental to future landslide incidence than climate.

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Section: Volcanic Eruptionsupporting

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Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016

Froude

Petley

2018

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…Different initiatives have been organized by the STC in order to reflect on and promote disaster risk reduction (DRR) partnerships at international (Aitsi-Selmi et al 2016;Alcántara-Ayala et al 2017;Collins et al 2017;Trogrlić et al 2017) and national levels. With the participation of national experts from diverse backgrounds and various institutions, several meetings to discuss issues associated with the structure and performance of SINA-PROC were held in Mexico, at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2018 and 2019.…”

Section: The First Multi-sectoral Conference Towards Integrated Disasmentioning

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Multi-Sectoral Reflections and Efforts in Strengthening Partnerships to Reduce Disaster Risk in Mexico: The First MuSe-IDRiM Conference

Alcántara-Ayala

Rodríguez-Velázquez

Garnica-Peña

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Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Notwithstanding the high societal impact of disasters in Mexico, there is a lack of integrated efforts to establish a sound policy for reducing disaster risk to counterbalance the existing concentrated endeavors in disaster management. In the face of such segmentation, the science and technology community has advocated for a change of perspective, from civil protection to integrated disaster risk management. The first Multi-Sectoral Conference towards Integrated Disaster Risk Management in Mexico: Building a National Public Policy (MuSe-IDRiM Conference) was held in Mexico City at National Autonomous University of Mexico, 21–24 October 2019. In support of the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the conference aimed at enhancing the dialogue between the science and technology community, citizens, civil society organizations, private and public sectors, and the federal, state, and municipal governments to foster the process of transforming the current National Civil Protection System into a national public policy oriented towards integrated disaster risk management (DRM). Barriers and challenges to the implementation of integrated DRM were identified. Implementation of integrated DRM challenges current socioeconomic structures and encourages all relevant stakeholders to think, decide, and act from a different perspective and within and across spatial, temporal, jurisdictional, and institutional scales. Understanding disaster risk from an integrated approach, learning skills that authorities have not learned or used, and hence, strengthening disaster risk governance are prerequisites to effectively manage disaster risk.

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“…During the WLF3 “Towards a safer geoenvironment”, convened in Beijing, China, in 2014, the 2014 Beijing Declaration on “Landslide Risk Mitigation: Toward a Safer Geoenvironment” was endorsed and aimed at establishing the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships (now called as the Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015–2025, SP2015-2025) at the 2015 World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), Sendai, Japan, March 2015. Likewise, at the time of the WLF4 “Landslide research and risk reduction for advancing the culture of living with natural hazards” commemorated in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017, the 2017 Ljubljana Declaration was sanctioned as a compromise of greater involvement by the global landslide community to the SFDRR (Alcántara-Ayala et al 2017b ; Sassa 2017b ).…”

Section: The International Consortium On Landslides: Efforts Towards mentioning

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Contribution of the International Consortium on Landslides to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: engraining to the Science and Technology Roadmap

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Sassa²

2020

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A year after the establishment of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR), the science and technology community (STC) endorsed in Geneva the UNISDR Science and Technology Roadmap to Support the Implementation of the SFDRR 2015-2030 (STR-SFDRR). Conducted actions by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) reflect priorities and challenges at different scales with regard to the progress of multi-sectoral partnerships, recognising the key role of the STC for the implementation of the SFDRR. Central to such endeavour are the Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015-2025 and the new-fangled Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020. While the former was conceived as a strategy for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk, the latter is directed to advocate for harmonic cohesiveness between the Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015-2025, and the SFDRR, the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals, the New Urban Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement. By encompassing the linkages of the contributions of the ICL community to the expected outcomes of the STR-SFDRR, this paper provides valuable input to foster the SFDRR, and provides concrete information on the ongoing ICL initiatives, actions and deliverables for strengthening partnerships and science-informed public policies to reduce landslide disaster risk and to advance Integrated Landslide Disaster Risk Management at different scales.

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The 4th World Landslide Forum: Landslide Research and Risk Reduction for Advancing the Culture of Living with Natural Hazards

Cited by 23 publications

References 10 publications

Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016

Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016

Multi-Sectoral Reflections and Efforts in Strengthening Partnerships to Reduce Disaster Risk in Mexico: The First MuSe-IDRiM Conference

Contribution of the International Consortium on Landslides to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: engraining to the Science and Technology Roadmap

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