The Fifth World Landslide Forum—Implementing and Monitoring the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025

Abstract

The outline of the Fifth World Landslide Forum (WLF5) was examined at the Steering Committee meeting of ICL and the launching meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Fifth World Landslide Forum was held on 5–6 March 2017 in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. Three participants from UNESCO, one from UNISDR, one from IRDR, 12 ICL, and IPL members from abroad, and 32 Japanese members from ICL headquarters in Kyoto, Kyoto University, the Japan Landslide Society, the Japanese Geotechnical Society, and the Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science (JSNDS) attended the meeting. The general outline of WLF5 was developed in the meeting. The first organizing committee meeting of the WLF5 took place on 1 April, 2017 at the forum venue—Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan. The second organizing committee meeting by ICL-IPL members will take place on 29 May 2017 at the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The upcoming WLF5, the concept of “Kyoto 2020 Commitment of the World Landslide Community” and “The 2017 Ljubljana Declaration on Landslide Risk–Contributing to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction” will be discussed at the high-level panel discussion: Strengthening Intergovernmental Network and the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) for “ISDR-ICL SENDAI PARTNERSHIPS 2015-2025 for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk” on 30 May 2017 during the Fourth World Landslide Forum, Ljubljana, Slovenia.