Landslide disaster is rampant in great number worldwide as population increase and urban development. In recent years, tremendous landslides often occur so frequently that people are killed in quite a number and crashes regional economy. The Japan Landslide Society has publised the Landslide News annually since 1986 and distributed them to the world, which deals with a wide range of case studies, landslide forecastings, disaster preventions.
Landslide of the World, edited as a restructured binding from the back numbers, categorize each case by causes and analyses landslide, collapse, liquiefaction, or creep. This volume comprehensively covers major landslide cases all over the world, which stands as a basic reference for the public administrators.