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Leading specialists in various disciplines were first invited to a multidisciplinary workshop funded by ICSU on the topic to gain a better appreciation and perspective on the subject of comet/asteroid impacts as viewed by different disciplines. This volume provides a necessary link between various disciplines and comet/asteroid impacts.

Intro -- Organizational Structure of the Fifth World Landslide Forum -- Organizers -- Co-sponsors -- Supporting Organizations with Finance -- Organizing Committee -- Foreword by Mami Mizutori -- Foreword by the Assistant Director-General for the Natural Sciences Sector of UNESCO for the Book of the 5th World Landslide Forum -- Preface I -- Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk -- Book Series: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk -- The Letter of Intent 2005 and the First General Assembly 2005 -- The 2006 Tokyo Action Plan and the First World Landslide Forum 2008 -- The Second World Landslide Forum 2011 and the Third World Landslide Forum 2014 -- The Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015 and the Fourth World Landslide Forum 2017 -- The Fifth World Landslide Forum 2020 and the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 -- Call for Partners of KLC2020 -- Eligible Organizations to be Partners of the KLC2020 -- Appendix: World Landslide Forum Books -- Preface II -- Contents -- Impact of Large Ground Deformations Near Seismic Faults on Critically Important Civil-Infrastructures -- 1 Recent Earthquakes that Hit Areas Covered and/or Underlain by Pyroclastic Matters and Their Impacts on Lifelines -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake -- Ground Zero of the Earthquake and Lifelines -- Continued Heavy Rainfalls -- Leaning Pump Housings of Clean Water Wells -- The 2018 Hokkaido Earthquake -- Multiple Landslides and Their Impact on Lifelines -- Runout Distances -- Strong Resemblance to a Past Case History -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2 Landslides in Recent Earthquakes and Damage to Lifelines -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Damage to Lifelines Far Off Surface Earthquake Faults -- The 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake, Japan -- Runout Distances of Landslide Masses -- The 2018 Hokkaido Earthquake, Japan.

This is the second volume focused on geoethics published by the Geological Society of London. This is a significant step forward in which authors address the maturation of geoethics. The field of geoethics is now ready to be introduced outside the geoscience community as a logical platform for global ethics that addresses anthropogenic changes. Geoethics has a distinction in the geoscientific community for discussing ethical, social and cultural implications of geoscience knowledge, research, practice, education and communication. This provides a common ground for confronting ideas, experiences and proposals on how geosciences can supply additional service to society in order to improve the way humans interact responsibly with the Earth system. This book provides new messages to geoscientists, social scientists, intellectuals, law- and decision-makers, and laypeople