International Cooperation Initiatives

Numerous national and international organizations and initiatives – mainly under the umbrella of the UN “International Strategy for Disaster Reduction” (ISDR) – have engaged themselves in contributing to a “safer” world by promoting research projects on and preventive measurements against landslides. Other Organizations, undertakings or agencies like UNESCO, the World Bank-Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the United Nations University (UNU), the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP), the UN-International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE, 2008), the International Hydrological Programme (IHP), the International Flood Initiative (IFI), the International Sediment Initiative (ISI), the Disaster and Mitigation Programmes of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Science Council (ICSU), the Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), or the “Joint Technical Committee on Landslide and Engineered Slopes” of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSGME), the International Association of Engineering Geologists and the Environment (IAEG) and the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) are heavily involved in landslide risk mitigation measures.

Representatives of selected organizations, initiatives or undertakings are invited to present their recent activities and findings during a Round Table at the 1st World Landslide Forum.