Announcement of 2018 ICL-IPL Conference in Kyoto, Japan

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Kyoji Sassa

                Announcement of 2018 ICL-IPL Conference in Kyoto, Japan
                          -Planning of the Fifth World Landslide Forum (WLF5)
                               and the Kyoto 2020 Commitment (KC2020)-

Date: 1-2 December 2018
Venue: Room 665 and Room 501 in the Kyoto International Conference Center (KICC)
Date: 3-4 December 2018
Venue: Large Seminar Room (R301) in the Collaborative Research Hub of the Disaster Prevention Research
          Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University(KU)

Outline programme:
1st December 2018 (Sat): Steering Committee meeting for ICL and IPL strategy for WLF5 and KC2020 with
      investigation of conference facilities in KICC.
 nd
2 December (Sun): Organization Committee meeting of the Fifth World Landslide Forum in Kyoto, 2020 in
      KICC
 rd
3 December 2018 (Mon.): 2018 IPL Symposium on Landslides in DPRI-KU
4th December 2018 (Tue.): 18th Session of the Board of Representatives of ICL (BOR/ICL), 14th Session of the
      Global Promotion Committee of IPL(GPC/IPL), the Council meeting of the IPL World Centre and the
      foundation of ICL-National Networks in DPRI-KU.
      Evening: Reception in Kihada Restaurant in Kyoto University, Uji Campus

Programme for Each Meeting:
1. Steering Committee meeting (10:00-17:00 on 1 December 2018)
Preliminary discussion and examination of all matters which need careful examination for effective discussion
in WLF5 organizing Committee and BOR/ICL and GPC/IPL. A strategy for WLF5 and KC2020 will be
discussed.

2. Organization Committee meeting of WLF5 (9:00-17:00 on 2 December 2018)

Fig.1 presents the schedule of WLF5 (Sassa 2018b and WLF5 WEB )
1) Thematic issue of Landslides “ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025” will be published in October 2020. This
issue may be accessed and downloaded free of charge from 15 October to 15 November 2020.
Papers to the thematic issue will be accepted in the Editorial Manager of Landslides from October 2018 to
December 2019.        Editorial manager: 

2) Seven themes, their coordinators (as below), and session within each theme were decided in the WLF5

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organizing Committee meeting during 2017 ICL-IPL Conference on 29 November to 1 December 2017. The
progress of session organizations will be reported by each coordinator. Addition and revision of sessions will
be examined. Sessions are reported in Sassa 2018b and WLF5 WEB http://wlf5.iplhq.org/.
   Theme 1: Sendai Partnerships and Kyoto 2020 Commitment
    Coordinators: Kyoji Sassa  and Željko Arbanas 
   Theme 2: Hazard and vulnerability mapping and zonation
    Coordinators: Snježana Mihalić-Arbanas , Hiromitsu Yamagishi
    , and Fausto Guzzetti 
   Theme 3: Monitoring and Early Warning
     Coordinators: Nicola Casagli  and Ping Lu 
   Theme 4: Testing, modeling and risk assessment
    Coordinators: Binod Tiwari  and Katsuo Sasahara 
   Theme 5: Risk management, risk governance and capacity development at different levels and national practices
     Coordinators: Matjaz Mikos , Irasema Alcantara-Ayala ,
    and Faisal Fathani 
   Theme 6: Catastrophic landslides: causes and consequences
     Coordinators: Alexander Strom  and Vit Vilimek 
   Theme 7: Frontiers of landslide science and innovative practices
     Coordinators: Peter Bobrowsky  and Michael Hendry 

3) Initial CD proceedings sessions were adopted as below in the 2017 Organizing Committee meeting.
   International cooperation in landslide disaster/risk reduction
     Proposer: Higaki Daisuke (Japan Landslide Society) 
   Study of landslides and landslide risk reduction in Central Asia
    Proposers: Kristine Tovmashan (UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty) , Soichiro
    Yasukawa (UNESCO, Paris) , Alexander Strom , Oleg
    Zerkal (Moscow State University 
   Early career landslide scientists
    Proposers: Giovanna Capparelli  and Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
    
   Introduction to landslide mitigation measures in Japan
     Proposer: Higaki Daisuke (Japan Landslide Society) 
   Structural and nonstructural countermeasures against landslide disaster implemented by the Japanese Government.
    Proposer: Katsuo Sasahara (Japan Landslide Society) 
   Activities of landslide prevention engineers to enhance local capacity for disaster reduction in Japan
      Proposer: Katsuo Sasahara (Japan Landslide Society) sasahara@kochi-u.ac.jp

The progress of the initial sessions will be reported. Additional session proposals will be examined and

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accepted at this Organizing Committee meeting in the 2018 ICL-IPL Conference.

     A ctivities      M on th                             1-9   10-12    1-3      4-6      7-9      10-12     1-3     4-5       6-7        8-10          W LF5

  P u b lication      Y ear                                 2018                      2019                                            2020
                      P ap er con trib u tion
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F u ll color b ooks R eview (b y E M )
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                      P u b lica tio n
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                      B o ok/Jou rn al au th o rs
R egistration         C D au th ors                                      Early Registration
                                                                         (1 Jan. to 1 Sept.)                Normal Registration
                      O th er p articip a n ts                                                         (1 Sept. 2019 to 1 Sept. 2020)             Late Registration
K yo to 2020 C o m m itm e n t (K C )
                                                          Z ero D raft         D raft an d C all for                 S ign atu re of K C               In au gu ral
 to b e lau n ch e d b y sign a tory
                                                            of K C               P a rties of K C                          (P lan )                     M eetin g
org an ization s a t W L F 5

                   Fig.1 The major timeline of the WLF5 organization.

3. 2018 IPL Symposium on Landslides (9:00-18:00 on 3 December 2018)

 The following presentations are planned.
1. New IPL project proposals.
 One of the proposers of new IPL project is required to orally present in the symposium for the evaluation of
 GPC/IPL members. Ongoing IPL projects will be decided at 14th Session of (GPC/IPL) on 4 December
 2018.
 Proposers will be requested to submit the proposal form by 1 September 2018 to ICL Network
 . All proposal forms will be passed to the IPL Evaluation Committee for technical
 evaluation. Project proposal forms will not be included in the CD proceedings.

2. Activity reports of ongoing WCoEs and ongoing IPL projects

3. Reports of recent landslides and other research activities will be reported by ICL members, ICL associates
     and ICL supporters.

CD proceedings of 2018 ICL-IPL Conference includes the submitted full papers (4-8 pages) and also the
submitted PPT (16 slides in 8 pages). CD-proceedings is published by ICL with ISBN number.
The deadline of submission of full papers and PPT is 30 October 2018.

4.     18th Session of the BOR/ICL and 14th Session of the GPC/IPL

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18th Session of the BOR/ICL (9:00-11:30 on 4 December 2018)
1. ICL management matters
2. Awards (2019 Varnes Medal, 2017 Best Paper Award, and other awards)
3. Publication of Landslides journal and ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools.
4. Establishment of ICL National Networks
5. New ICL members, New ICL associates and New supporters in 2018.
6. Plan of 2019 ICL-IPL Conference
7. Other matters

14th Session of the GPC/IPL (13:00-15:30 on 4 December 2018)
1. Evaluation and Approval of new IPL projects
2. Examination and Approval of WLF5 organization plan
3. Examination and Approval of the draft plan of the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for global promotion of
    understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk
4. Contribution of on-going WCOES, IPL leaders and ICL Networks to the Kyoto 2020 Commitment
5. Establishment of Editorial Manager and Plan of new volumes of publication for WLF5 2020
6. Promotion of ICL World Report of Landslides
7. Other Matters.

5. The Council meeting of the IPL World Centre and the foundation of ICL-Japan, ICL-Italy and other
   national networks (16:00 -18:00 on 4 December 2018)

The IPL World Centre (IWC) serves as the secretariat of the IPL and the GPC/IPL. The Council Members of
IWC consists of advisors from Japanese authorities (Cabinet office, three ministries and Kyoto University),
ICL senior advisor, IPL adviser, Chairs of IPL/GPC, ICL president and vice presidents for Europe and
America,   Executive director, Secretary-General, and representatives of ICL Japanese members. GPC/IPL
will report their past activities and future plans to the Council members. The regulation of IWC will be
modified to include the activities to support ICL-National networks to collaborate to promote the Kyoto 2020
Commitment.
  The plan of ICL-Japan, ICL-Italy and other ICL networks are being evaluated, and their establishment will
be authorized with approvals from all members of the BOR/ICL, the GPC/IPL and the Council Members of
IWC.

Reception in Kihada Restaurant in Kyoto University, Uji Camps (18:30-20:30 on 4 December 2018)

Contact on this conference will be address to:
Subject: 2018 ICL-IPL Conference
Email:   ICL secretariat 

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WEB:     WLF5 web , ICL WEB , IPL WEB 

References
 Sassa K (2018a) Zero Draft of the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding

    and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk. Landslides 15(3): 389-392.

 Sassa K (2018b) The Fifth World Landslide Forum -Implementing and monitoring the ISDR-ICL

    Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025-Organization plan, themes and sessions. Landslides 15(3): 617-620.

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 Kyoji Sassa
 Secretary General
 International Consortium on Landslides
 Kyoto, Japan
 Email: secretariat@iclhq.org

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