Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Volume 4 Testing, Modeling and Risk Assessment

• Five keynote lectures

• Recent development in physical modeling of landslides

• Recent development in numerical modeling of landslides

• Recent development in soil and rock testing techniques, application and analysis methods

• Recent advancements in the methods of slope stability and deformation analyses

• Recent development in disaster risk assessment

Prof. Binod Tiwari is a Vice President of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He is the Associate Vice President for research and sponsored project and Professor of civil and environmental engineering at the California State University, Fullerton, California, USA.

Prof. Peter Bobrowsky is the President of the International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

Prof. Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of the International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.