Abstract
The World Landslide Forum (WLF) is a triennial world conference of scientists, policy makers, professional engineers and practitioners, aiming at international exchange of knowledge, experiences and latest trends in science and engineering development and with focus on landslide risk governance. The WLF4 will be organised in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from May 30 to June 2, in 2017. The WLF4 has an objective to be a worldwide event for discussing how landslide research and landslide risk reduction can contribute to advancing culture of living with natural hazards. The risk governance in the field of landslide disaster risk reduction and management means to establish an effective bottom-up system incorporating many relevant stakeholders into a risk dialogue, and enhancing risk communication with the aim to build a sustainable system of prevention and disaster relief in the field of landslide disasters risk reduction. The WLF4 will be the first opportunity to evaluate the progress in the implementation of the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025 for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk, officially accepted in 2015 at the 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan.
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