I. Purpose
UNESCO and the University and the Consortium will create a UNESCO/KU/ICL Landslide and Water-related Disaster Risk Management for Society and the Environment Cooperation Programme(hereinafter referred to as “the Cooperation Programme”) in the framework of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme.
II Main Objectives
The principal objectives of the Cooperation Programme will include in addition:
(1) establishing research and education for landslide and water-related disaster risk
management;
(2) helping members of the Network in developing methods of global landslide and hydro-
metorological monitoring;
(3) enhancing landslide and water experiments;
(4) permitting development of a landslide and water-related disaster database and digital
library as well as of a world digital inventory such as Disaster Reduction Hyperbase
(DRH);
