{"id":2561,"date":"2011-01-27T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T08:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2011-01-27T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T08:18:35","slug":"the-2nd-world-landslide-forum-putting-science-into-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/01\/27\/the-2nd-world-landslide-forum-putting-science-into-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2nd World Landslide Forum: putting science into practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2nd World Landslide Forum, which\u00a0will be held in Rome in early October this year, is organised by the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL).\u00a0 The aim of the\u00a0meeting, which is held every three years,\u00a0is to bring together the research, practice and policy communities in order to reduce\u00a0landslide impacts worldwide.\u00a0 The theme for the meeting in 2011 is “Putting science into practice”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The website for this important event is now up and running (but turn off your sound card first!) at http:\/\/www.wlf2.org\/<\/a>.\u00a0 The 2nd Circular can also be downloaded here<\/a>.\u00a0 The abstract deadline is 15th March and the early registration deadline is 15th August.\u00a0 The meeting runs\u00a0over the week of 3rd\u00a0– 9th\u00a0October 2011.<\/p>\n

I am particularly keen to promote the following session:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

L10:\u00a0Landslides and Socio-economic Impact: Basic Data and Loss Modeling<\/strong>
\nConveners : Lynn Highland, Dalia Kirschbaum and Dave Petley<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Landslides can create permanently unstable sites that cannot be repaired or developed, and as a result, can cause severe economic and social consequences for families and communities. Human activities disturb large volumes of earth materials during the construction of buildings, roads and other infrastructure, and thus have been a major factor in increases in damage due to slope failures. Population migration pressure, which includes movement into hazardous areas, may also increase the vulnerability to social and economic consequences.<\/p>\n

This session presents aspects of these impacts and will include:<\/p>\n

* Case histories of landslide-related socioeconomic impacts, both direct and indirect, on populations.<\/p>\n

* The effects of landslide mitigation measures, such as land use regulation, enforcement, construction incentives, and the evacuation and relocation of affected populations.<\/p>\n

* A forum for the presentation of strategies for forecasting and measuring economic losses to the built and natural environments such as, inventory acquisition, disaster modelling, cost\/benefit analyses and disaster scenarios.<\/p>\n

* The multi-hazard, cumulative socio-economic affects of associated hazards that may accompany landslides such as flood, earthquakes, glacial retreat, volcano edifice collapses and eruptions, and the potential multiplier effect of climate change on such.<\/p>\n

* Examples of the development of increased resilience to landslides through social and economic measures.<\/p>\n

* Proposals for and examples of the implementation of education, monitoring, mapping, land use and\/or hazard alerts on landslide hazard reduction, and\/or attitudes and perception by populations. Can they be measured for their success in reducing landslide losses, and if not, have other strategies been tried?<\/p>\n

\u00a0We would particularly welcome papers that discuss social and economic landslide impacts, whether on an individual (i.e. a single landslide) basis or on an area, region, country, continental or even global scale.\u00a0 We would also like to see papers that discuss techniques for calculating these impacts for either past events or those that are forecast \/ anticipated.\u00a0 Furthermore, we would like to see some papers that examine the ways that this information can be communicated to end-users, including\u00a0policy makers, disaster planners, companies, NGOs\u00a0and the public;\u00a0and we would like to see examples\u00a0of how these data are being, or will be used.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0There is the potential for a really exciting, really vibrant session that could be a landmark in our management of landslides, so please do join in.\u00a0 Abstracts will need to be submitted through the website, but please feel free to contact either myself or my two co-conveners with ideas or questions.\u00a0 We hope that the session will run over a whole day of the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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