key: cord-0867550-axek3qzs authors: Sassa, Kyoji title: The Fifth World Landslide Forum (WLF5) on 2-6 November 2021, Kyoto, Japan date: 2020-08-26 journal: Landslides DOI: 10.1007/s10346-020-01487-3 sha: 5dd954b883ec7270c3df204d420828d069bcc1ed doc_id: 867550 cord_uid: axek3qzs nan The Fifth World Landslide Forum (WLF5) was originally planned to be organized on 2-6 November 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Organizing Committee of WLF5 decided to postpone the WLF5 for 1 year to 2-6 November 2021 at the same venue (Kyoto International Conference Center) in Kyoto, Japan. Meanwhile, two thematic issues of Landslides titled "Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015-2025" and six volumes of full color books titled "Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk," which are the inaugural volumes of new ICL book series ICL contribution to landslide disaster risk reduction (ISSN 2662-1894 (print version) and ISSN2662-1908 (electronic version)), will be published in October or November 2020, as initially scheduled. The 2020 ICL-IPL online virtual Conference will be organized on 2-6 November 2020 (original date of WLF5). The Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 (KLC2020) will be established at the launching session on 5 November 2020 (World Tsunami Awareness Day) as a part of the virtual conference. Due to its postponement, activities of WLF5 are expanded from 2020 to 2021 and new activities have been added for the forum in 2021 while the organization structure is kept the same. The updated information is presented in this article. Date: 2-6 November 2021 Venue: Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan Organizers: International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) Global Promotion Committee of International Programme on Landslides (IPL-GPC), including United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); World Meteorological Organization (WMO); Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR); United Nations University (UNU); International Science Council (ISC); World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO); International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS); International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). Kyoto University (KU); Japan Landslide Society (JLS); Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS); Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science (JSNDS); Japan Association for Slope Disaster Management (JASDiM). Cabinet Office (Disaster Management Bureau) of Japan; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan (MEXT); Ministry of Land Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT); Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF); Science Council of Japan (SCJ); Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE); Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering (JSIDRE); Japan Society of Erosion Control Engineering; Japan Society of Engineering Geology. Tokyo Geographical Society; International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS); Association for Disaster Prevention Research, Kyoto, Japan. World Landslide Forum has been organized every 3 years after the first forum in Tokyo, Japan, in 2008. It is a common platform for scientists, engineers, practitioners, and policymakers who are in- The Fifth World Landslide Forum will be the opportunity to achieve a mid-term review of the Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015-2025 and 1-year review and planning of the further development strategy of KLC2020. International Cooperation Division, Disaster Management Bureau, Cabinet Office, Japan; Kazuyuki Imai, Director General of Sabo Department, Ministry of Land Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan*; Chungsik Yoo, President of the International Geosynthetics Society; Rafig Azzam, President of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (*: to be confirmed). Kaoru Takara (Kyoto University), Daisuke Higaki (Japan Landslide Society), Ikuo Towhata (Japanese Geotechnical Society). Ryosuke Uzuoka (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University), Kazuo Konagai (International Consortium on Landslides), Khang Dang (International Consortium on Landslides). The Kyoto International Conference Center (KICC) in Kyoto, Japan, is selected as the venue of the Fifth World Landslide Forum (Fig. 1) . It was constructed in May 1966 by the decision of the Cabinet of Japan as the national conference center to host major international conferences in Kyoto, Japan. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in KICC in the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 1997; the third World Water Forum was in March 2003. Forum Publication 1 Journal thematic issues "Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015-2025" will be published in October and in November 2020. The author of the accepted paper will be invited as an invited lecturer of WLF5 for 20-min oral presentation. 2 Journal thematic issue "Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020" will be published in November 2021. The author of the accepted paper will be invited as an invited lecturer of WLF5 for 20-min oral presentation. 3 Six volumes of full-color books titled "Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk," which are the inaugural volumes of new ICL book series "ICL contribution to landslide disaster risk reduction (ISSN 2662-1894 (print version) and ISSN2662-1908 (electronic version)) will be published in December 2020. 4. Electronic proceedings: The printing format of Electronic Proceedings is one-page title/author/office and abstract +5-9 pages of 2 PPT slides/page. The deadline for submission of the session proceedings to the WLF5 secretariat is 31 July 2020. All session proceedings to the WLF5 secretariat will be compiled as WLF5 electronic proceedings with ISBN number. It will be published in November 2020. 5 One-Page Abstract volume: WLF5 in 2021 will invite speakers for a one-page text-based abstract (with no figures or photos). The deadline for the session proposal is 28 February 2021 and the submission deadline of the onepage abstract is 30 June 2021. Acceptance will be informed by 31 July 2021. WLF5 abstract volume will be published. ISBN will be assigned to this volume. Authors can choose among (1) 10-min oral presentation, (2) no talk, or (3) no attendance. 6. Electronic posters: Each E-Poster is A0 size (841 × 1189 mm) in PPT format. Template < http://wlf5.iplhq.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ E-Poster.pptx>. All accepted electronic posters will be numbered and uploaded on the web for downloading by registered participants. Each poster is cited by its number of the WLF5 electronic posters. The submission deadline for Electronic posters is 30 June 2021. Acceptance will be informed by 31 July 2021. Authors can choose among (1) 3-min oral presentation, (2) no talk, or (3) non-attendance. The parallel sessions of WLF5 will be organized with Theme 1 to Theme 8 on 4-6 November 2021. All accepted papers for Journal thematic issues, full-color books, electronic proceedings, and onepage abstract volumes will be presented in Theme 1-Theme 8 as follows. Field trip to urban landslides in Hiroshima, landslide-induced tsunami in Unzen volcano, and earthquake-induced landslides in Kumamoto will be organized on 7-9 November 2021 (Fig. 2) . 1st day in Hiroshima (7th Nov. 2021) Start from Kyoto by Shinkansen: Urban landslide disasters triggered by local extreme rainfalls. World Cultural Heritage "Itsukushima Shrine" and "Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park" (stay in Hiroshima). 2nd day in Unzen (8 Nov. 2021) From Hiroshima to Kumamoto by Shinkansen and to Unzen-Shimabara by bus and ferry: 1792 Unzen-Mayuyama megaslide by an earthquake and caused a big tsunami disaster. Visit to Unzen Volcanic Area Global Geopark, Unzen Disaster Memorial Hall (stay in Unzen Hot Spring). 3rd day (9 Nov. 2021) From Unzen Hot Spring to the Shimabara port by bus and ferry to Kumamoto (observation from the ferry to Unzen volcano and megaslide): Visit to the landslides induced by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in the Aso caldera area. Leave from Kumamoto Station/Airport to Osaka by railway, or from Kumamoto airport to Osaka, Tokyo, or others. Registration will be accepted through the WLF5 WEB registration page< http://wlf5.iplhq.org/registration> or directly to the registration page by Japan Travel Bureau . The registration fee for all categories of participation is shown below, and all updated information of WLF5 is printed in the WLF5 outline and the WLF5 information board of the back matters of each issue of Journal Landslides. Fig. 2 The route map of field trip on 7-9 November 2021 Landslides For the success of WLF5, the organizing committee is calling for WLF5 supporting organization with financial support, panel exhibition, and one Sponsor A and three Sponsor B. WLF5 has been postponed for 1 year from the originally planned date. Papers of 6 volumes of full-color books and two thematic issues "Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015-2025" will be published in 2020. The WLF5 organizing committee is calling for another thematic issue "Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020"; authors of accepted papers will be invited lecturers in the forum. WLF5 is also calling for one-page abstract speakers and electronic poster presenters for WLF 5 in 2021. 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