Japan
UNITWIN-UNESCO/KU/ICL Landslides Risk Mitigation for Society and Environment Cooperation Programme (605), established in 2003 at Kyoto University, (Japan).
Fields/Disciplines
Geology, Geography, Geophysics, Civil and Mining Engineering, Forest and Agricultural Engineering, Informatics, Policy and Administration.
Objectives
- To provide advice and expertise to all countries, particularly the least developed, with a view to:
- Establishing research and education for landslide and water-related disaster risk management;
- Helping members of the Networks in developing methods of global landslide and hydrometorological monitoring;
- Enhancing landslide and water experiments;
- Contributing to development of a landslide and water-related disaster database and digital library as well as of a world digital inventory such as Desaster Reduction Hyperbase (DRH).
Host Institution
UNITWIN-UNESCO/KU/ICL Landslides Risk Mitigation for Society and Environment Cooperation Programme
UNESCO Sector/Office responsible for the Chair/Network
Natural Sciences, UNESCO Office in Beijing.
Contact
Dr Kyoji Sassa, International Consortium on Landslides
President
E-Mail address - ICL(at)landslide.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Work Phone - 81 774 384 110
Fax - 81 774 325 597
Street - 37, Schichiku Shimokosai-cho, Kita-ku
City - Kyoto
Postal Code - 603-8114
Country - Japan