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The international journal was established in April 2004 as the core project of the International Programme on Landslides and a joint initiative of the International Consortium on Landslides and the United Nations and other global organizations. The aims of are to promote landslide science, technology, and capacity building, and to strengthen global cooperation for landslide risk reduction within the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR). The importance of landslide occurrences, as a one of the main global hazards increasing under global climate change in recent years, focused the scientists, engineers and stakeholders all over the world, especially in regions threatened by landslides, on landslide risk reduction research, with the aim of reducing their consequences. The landslide scientists recognized as the most important scientific journal in the fields of natural hazards, engineering geology, geotechnics and civil engineering related to any type of landslide research. Results of the most significant landslide research conducted last year were submitted and published in . The increasing number and quality of published manuscripts in the last years has resulted in a continuous rise of the journal impact, as expressed by the Thompson Reuters Impact Factor. The Thompson Reuters Impact Factor 2015 is 3.049; ranking No.1 in the category of Engineering, Geological journals. The aims of the Editorial Board are further improvements of manuscript quality, speed-up of the peer review process and faster publication of landslide science achievements.

The Earth Sciences Department of the University of Firenze (DST-UNIFI) since 2002 has been a member of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) and three times it has been awarded status as a World Centre of Excellence (WCoE) for Landslide Risk Reduction (2008–2010, 2011–2013, 2014–2016). Since 2016, DST-UNIFI has established a UNESCO Chair on Prevention and sustainable management of geo-hydrological hazards. In this paper we describe the activities carried out by DST-UNIFI as a member of ICL and as WCoE in the framework of landslide risk reduction, landslide prevention and management.

The Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of Ljubljana (UL FGG), Slovenia, Europe, was voted in 2014 at the 3rd World Landslide Forum in Beijing, China to be one of the 15 new World Centres of Excellence (WCoE) in Landslide Disaster Reduction for the period 2014–2017. This successful nomination followed the period 2011–2014, in which UL FGG successfully fulfilled the role as one of the WCoEs for the second time. The title of the activities of the WCoE in this third term was slightly modified to be “Mechanisms of Landslides and Creep in Over-Consolidated Clays and Flysch”. We can divide the activities of the WCoE at UL FGG into international and national research activities. The international ones consisted of the ICL related activities with the main task of being the main organizer of this 4th World Landslide Forum 2017, international cooperation, European research activities, and bilateral cooperation. The national ones consisted of the national projects and the national research program “Water Science and Technology, and Geotechnics”. In the paper, these activities of the WCoE at UL FGG are elaborated in more detail, with a comprehensive list of publications to show the dissemination and capacity building efforts.

China Geological Survey (CGS) is one of the 15 new World Centres of Excellence (WCoE) in Landslide Disaster Reduction for the period 2014–2017. The title of the activities of the WCoE has been “Scientific research for mitigation, preparedness and risk assessment of landslides” since 2008, due to the complex conditions for the occurrence of geohazards in China. The Center of Geohazards Emergency of Ministry of Land Resources, which is directly under CGS, is responsible for the emergency response to major geohazards nationwide, including survey and investigation, monitoring and warning, risk assessment, prevention, training, and information systems. In this paper, the important activities of CGS are elaborated. The research project entitled “Research Project on the Early Recognition and Warning on Heavy Rainfall-Induced and Hydraulic-Driven Geological Hazards in China” was conducted from 2011 to 2015. From 2015 to 2017, a new project on mechanisms and hazards patterns of hydraulic-driven landslides has been conducted by the Center of Geohazards Emergency, China Geological Survey.

In this paper scientific activities of the Croatian Landslide Group (CLG), World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoE) of the International Consortium on Landslide (ICL) for the period 2014–2017, are shortly described. The results of scientific research are presented through the fields of landslide science: landslide identification and mapping, landslide investigation and testing, landslide monitoring, landslide modelling and landslide stabilization and remediation. It is concluded that the resulting landslide inventory maps, regional empirical rainfall intensity-duration thresholds, kinematic landslide models and soil strength parameters, landslide movement prediction models, numerical models and simulations and behavior of geotechnical construction for landslide stabilization provide necessary information for landslide risk management in Croatia. Besides applied scientific research, the general objectives of ICL WCoE are achieved in the framework of two Croatian IPL Projects and regional ICL Adriatic-Balkan Network.

Large-scale landslides with widths and lengths of 1 km or more have been reported in many parts of the world. Occurrences of large-scale landslides have recently tended to increase due to climate change and frequent seismic activity. To conduct research on proper measures for large-scale landslides, elucidation of the occurrence mechanism, for which there are as yet many unclear points, will be required in future. The Japan Landslide Society established a research committee that worked from 2011 to 2014 to elucidate the occurrence mechanisms of large-scale landslides. Analysis of examples of large-scale landslides collected from members of the research committee showed that a volume of moving body larger than 1 × 10 m and a maximum landslide thickness of more than 30 m are appropriate as the definition of a large-scale landslide. The shape of a large-scale landslide depends on the geology and age of the landslide site, and landslide activity and history affect the symmetry of the shape of a landslide. This paper presents some results of the WCOE (2014–2017) project titled “Emergency response support system for large-scale landslide disasters” by the Japan Landslide Society.

For nearly 100 years, the average temperature of the global surface has showed a consistent warming trend. Climate change and extreme weather events causing landslides are rising, especially landslides in cold regions, and the topic has become a hot issue in landslide research. With the support of ICL and the Chinese government, based on highway construction projects in Heilongjiang Province (China), Prof. Shan and his group (Institute of Cold Regions Science and Engineering, North East Forestry University, China) conducted thematic studies focusing on environmental and engineering geology problems in cold regions in the context of climate change, such as IPL132, IPL167, and IPL203. These studies attracted the interest of international colleagues, then Chinese colleagues, together with researchers from Russia, Canada, Japan, Italy and Czech Republic, together organized the ICL-cold regions landslide network (ICL-CRLN). In ICL-CRLN researchers could exchange research information and results, and so promote the development of landslide research in cold regions. In 2014, IPL-GPC approved the establishment of IPL-WCoE: Research Center of Cold Regions Landslide, so landslide research in cold regions came into a new stage of development. This article is a summary and outlook of these activities.

Large-scale bedrock landslides are among the most hazardous natural phenomena posing a threat to communities living in mountainous regions and in the river valleys therein. Their study requires regular mapping of past features and compilation of uniform and representative inventories. This paper presents the main activities of the World Center of Excellence on Landslide Disaster Reduction of the Geodynamics Research Center—branch of JSC “Hydroproject Institute” (Moscow, Russia) and of the Kyrgyz Institute of Seismology (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). Their activities include compilation of a landslide inventory for the Kokomeren River Basin in Central Tien Shan, where the annual Kokomeren Summer School on Rockslides has been carried out since 2006, and of the uniform inventory of large-scale bedrock landslides (rockslides) for the entire Central Asia region, including the Djungaria, Tien Shan and Pamir mountain systems. Basic principles of rockslides identification and the structure of the database are described in brief.

Asia is a dynamic nexus of economic and social change, with population growth, industrialisation and urbanisation playing a large part in shaping the exposure of communities to hydro-meteorological as well as geologic hazards. Among them, landslides have become most widespread and commonly observed events throughout South and Southeast Asia. Recent incidents triggered by South Asian monsoons affected by El Niño resulted in devastating landslides in many countries in Asia. Realizing the essential need for landslide risk reduction, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) implements an umbrella program, namely the Asian Program for Regional Capacity Enhancement for Landslide Impact Mitigation (RECLAIM) to undertake various measures for landslide risk mitigation such as pilot demonstration projects, capacity building programs for the stakeholder institutions through regional and national level training courses, networking events for experience sharing. This paper presents some of the needs and gaps in the region and initiatives undertaken by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) through its programs to address them. In acknowledgement of the initiatives being undertaken for landslide disaster risk reduction in Asia, the International Consortium of Landslides (ICL) has recognized ADPC to be one of the World Centers of Excellence (WCoE).

The implementation of early warning systems is in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015–2030. One of the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Action emphasizes the improvement of preparedness in response to a disaster by carrying out a simple, low-cost early warning system and improving its dissemination. A new proposal of a standard for community-based landslide early warning systems has been promoted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) by Universitas Gadjah Mada, in corporation with the Indonesian Standardization Agency and the Disaster Management Authority. The standard will serve to empower individuals and communities who are vulnerable to landslides to act in sufficient time in appropriate ways to reduce the possibility of injuries, loss of life and damage to property and the environment. It is designed to encourage communities to play a much more active role in their own protection. The guidelines adopted the concept of people-centered early warning system by UN-ISDR (Developing an early warning system: a checklist. Bonn, Germany, ) and will be used by communities vulnerable to landslides, and by government agencies and non-governmental organizations at central, provincial, municipality/district, sub-district, and village levels. The recommendations include: (1) Risk assessment; (2) Dissemination and communication; (3) Formation of disaster preparedness and response teams; (4) Development of evacuation maps; (5) Development of standard operating procedures; (6) Monitoring, early warning, and evacuation drills; (7) Commitment of the local authority and community to maintain the system. The standard will be developed by ISO/TC 292 , with the participation of 43 countries in the committee’s work and another 14 as observers. The basic concept of this global standard has been initiated since 2007 through the Asian Joint Research on Early Warning of Landslides proposed by International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) and Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) Kyoto University and funded by JST and implemented in Indonesia, China, Korea and Japan. This paper describes the achievements and the current activities of the World Centre of Excellence (WCoE) on Landslide Risk Reduction (2014–2017), IPL Project (IPL-158) “Development of community-based landslide early warning system”, and IPL Project (IPL-165) “Development of community-based landslide hazard mapping for landslide risk reduction at the village scale in Java, Indonesia”.