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Research and dissemination activities of the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoE), located in Prague, Czech Republic, entitled “Landslide risk assessment and development guidelines for effective risk reduction” focus on the strengthening of landslide risk reduction efforts defined through the Sendai partnership and the International Program on Landslides (IPL). WCoE’s contribution to this objective is represented mainly by long-term landslide monitoring, site-specific, and regional hazard assessment as well as a variety of dissemination activities targeting the general public and those involved in landslide risk management. Apart from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, research was performed in the regions where landslides may have considerable negative impacts on society (e.g., South America, Africa) or where landslide processes may be significantly enhanced by climate change (arctic regions and high, glaciated mountains).
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Preparation of this article was supported by the grant of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports No. LG15007, by grant No. LO1415 within the National Sustainability Program I (NPU I) and the long-term conceptual development of the research organization RVO 67985891. We are thankful for the financial support of the Czech Republic Development Cooperation (grant no. 25/2015/03) for their dissemination activities in Ethiopia and the Czech Science Foundation for supporting the research on El Hierro, Spain (GJ16-12227Y). The Grant Agency of Charles University (GAUK project no. 70 613 and GAUK project no. 730 216) is further acknowledged. The authors are also thankful for the data which were partly provided by the CzechGeo-EPOS project “Distributed system of permanent observatory measurements and temporary monitoring of geophysical fields in the Czech Republic” (LM2015079).
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Klimeš, J., Hartvich, F., Tábořík, P. et al. Studies on selected landslides and their societal impacts: activity report of the Prague World Centre of Excellence, Czech Republic. Landslides 14, 1547–1553 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-017-0837-4
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