Early warning of landslides

Abstract

A potential project of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) was discussed among ICL members from Korea, China and Japan during one of the ICL meetings in Tokyo 2006. Based on these joint discussions, ICL headquarters in Japan, together with the Kyoto University (Disaster Prevention Research Institute) applied to the Japanese programme for Asian scientific cooperation for support to solve the common issues in the region, in cooperation with Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand. This Asian Joint Project was entitled " Development of early warning technology of landslides". The application was accepted in 2007, and the project was approved as a part of IPL 105 in the same year. This chapter describes the early warning technologies developed in IPL 105 which are presented in published papers in the thematic issue of EarlyWarning of Landslides, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2010. Social implementation, capacity development, information dissemination and training for evacuation also have been implemented in this project; these activities are briefly described.