First world landslide forum

Organizer(s) United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters World Bank, the International Council for Science Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters International Consortium of Landslides World Meteorological Organization (WMO) United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific World Federation of Engineering Organizations United Nations University (UNU)

Format

In person

Venue

United Nations University

Date

18 November 2008 - 21 November 2008

The 2006 Tokyo Action Plan on the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) was adopted by the international community. It proposed the global cooperating Network of the IPL, and established the IPL Global Promotion Committee and the IPL World Centre as its secretariat to coordinate and support implementation of the International Programme on Landslides.

The Action Plan proposed organizing a World Landslide Forum in order to bring together academics, practitioners, politicians, and other stakeholders to a global, multidisciplinary, problem-focused platform. The Forum is neither a pure scientific/engineering meeting, nor a pure governmental and intergovernmental meeting, but a meeting cross-cutting many fields which may contribute to landslide and other related earth system disaster reduction.

The objectives of the First Landslides Forum (1st WLF) are the following:

1. Promotion of research and exchange of experience through open Forums, Symposia and Workshops
2. Advances and achievements of IPL
3. Designation of World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction.

Source

http://www.iclhq.org/WLFweb/WLF.htm