The World Landslide Forum comes to Florence

The sixth edition of the World Landslide Forum dedicated to "Landslide Science for sustainable development" will be held in Florence, from November 14^th to 17 ^th. A prestigious international event with the specific focus on geological and hydrogeological risk mitigation is coming to Italy this year. The event is jointly organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), chaired by Prof. Nicola Casagli, Chair of WLF6, the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), ICL's specific programme on landslide risk mitigation, and the UNESCO Chair on Prevention and Sustanaible Management of Geohydrological Hazards at the University of Florence.

The 6^th WLF focuses on Landslides Science for Sustainable Development as a contribution to the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk (KLC2020), the Sendai Partnerships Commitment on Landslides 2015-2025, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the UN Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030, the New Urban Agenda, and the Paris Agreement. 

The goal of the Forum is to provide a platform to achieve fruitful cooperation among landslide researchers to define shared priority actions for hydrological risk reduction on a global scale. The Forum will cover the main aspects related to landslide analysis, monitoring and early warning, landslide modeling, landslide hazard and risk assessment, mitigation techniques, triggering mechanisms, and climate change. 

Specifically, the various sessions will revolve around six main themes: the Kyoto Landslide Commitment for sustainable development; remote sensing, monitoring and early warning; testing, modeling and mitigation techniques; mapping, hazard, risk assessment and management; climate change, extreme weather, earthquakes and landslides; progress in landslide science and applications.

The Forum will host lectures and conferences, a large exhibition area and various thematic workshops.

CAE will be among the exhibitors to bring its experience in monitoring and early warning for geological and hydrogeological risk mitigation, real-time monitoring more than 50 landslides in Italy alone.

WLF6 will be held at the striking locations of Palazzo dei Congressi and Palazzo degli Affari and is organized with Ente Fiera Firenze. 

For more about the event and details on guests and the programme click here.


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