The Fifth Session of Board of Representatives of International Consortium on Landslides

9:00-18:00 on 23 November 2006
9:00-16:30 on 24 November 2006
Room XIII (-1 Floor) of Bonvin Building, UNESCO Headquarters
1 Rue Miollis, Paris, France
Tel: +33-1-45 68 41 20, Fax: +33-1-45 68 58 21

Schedule:
23 November (Thursday)
9:00-12:00: Opening Ceremony
Greetings, Report of the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan,
Conferment of Varnes Medal and Best paper Awards
13:00-15:30: IPL Project Reviews
16:00-18:00: ICL2006 Symposium
18:30-20:00: Reception (Venue: Miollis Bar)

24 November (Friday)
9:00-12:00: BOR Discussion
13:30-16:30: BOR Discussion

Proposed Agenda of the ICL Fifth BOR Meeting

9:00-18:00 on 23 November 2006
1. Opening
1) Welcome Address from General-Director of UNESCO Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura
2) Greetings from Director of UN/ISDR Mr. Sálvano Briceño
3) Greeting from Executive Director of ICSU Mr. Thomas Rosswall
4) Opening Address BOR by ICL President Mr. Kyoji Sassa
5) Introduction to the RTD (Round Table Discussion, Tokyo, January 2006) and WLF (World Landslide Forum, Tokyo, November 2008) by Mr. Kyoji Sassa

2. Conferment of Best Paper Award, Varnes Medal
1) 2006 Varnes Medal
2) Best Paper Award in 2004
3) Best Paper Award in 2005

3. IPL Projects Review
1) Examination of new project proposals
2) Report of ongoing projects

4. ICL2006 Symposium

Oral Presentation
Canuti Paolo, Casagli Nicola,Falorni Giacomo, Nocentini Massimiliano: Geotechnical investigation and dynamic modelling of the 30 April 2006 debris flows on Ischia Island
Vladimir Kutepov, German Postoyev, Valentina Svalova: Landslide hazard monitoring on sites of historical heritage in Moscow
Yueping Yin: Landslide Hazard and loss Mitigation Methods in China
Roslan Zainal Abidin & Badiah Sujak: Landslide risk with regards to rainfall erosivity
Zdenek Patzelt, Zuzana Varilova, Vit Vilimek: Hydrogeology of Machu Picchu as a key factor of geodynamic phenomena
Ji?í Zvelebil, Filip Hartvich: Site-friendly dilatometric slope monitoring at Celtic Mountain Citadel of Ob?í Hrad, S. Bohemia

Poster Presentation
Ranjan Deka, A.K. Pachauri, Bharat Bhushan: Rockfall velocity simulation modeling and potentials of geographic information sciences (GIS) in its evaluation
Yang Hong, Robert F Adler, George J Huffman: Evaluation of the potential of multi-satellite precipitation analysis in global landslide hazard assessment
Wei Shan, Wei Gao, Yanqiu Xing: Shallow slope stability analysis for earth cut slope of high-rank highway in seasonally frozen regions

9:00-16:30 on 24 November 2006

1. Reports and Approval of ICL Activities
1) ICL members and Participants for 5th BOR
(1) Approval of ICL new member organizations, and their representatives and alternative representatives
(2) Termination and Changes of ICL member organizations
(3) Participants for the 5th BOR
2) Approval of the Minutes of 4th BOR
3) Publication of ICL Journal "Landslides"
4) Report of Round Table Discussion and 2006 Tokyo Action Plan
5) Europe Centre of ICL
6) International Disaster Reduction Conference IDRC Davos 2006 and Davos Appeal
7) Investigation to the Guinsaugon landslide, Southern Leyte, Philippines
2. ICL Committee
1) Activity report in 2006 and Plan of Activities in 2007
2) Examination of committee activities
3. IPL Management Committee
4. Examination of IPL Global Promotion Committee and IPL World Centre
The framework to implement the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan, and activities including "Journal Database" and "Database for Landslides of the World"

5. Activity Plans
1) IPL Symposium in Tokyo, January 2007
2) The First North American Landslide Conference in Vail, Colorado and STC meeting in 2007
3) 2007 BOR meeting at UNESCO, Paris
4) 2008 STC meeting at UN/ISDR, Geneva
5) The First Landslide Forum at UNU, Tokyo, November 2008
6. 2005 Financial Statement and 2007 Budget
7. Others