10th Anniversary of ICL Adriatic-Balkan Network and 5th Regional Symposium on Landslides

Abstract

The Adriatic-Balkan Network (ABN) was established in January 2012 as one of regional networks in the framework of International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) and its 10th Anniversary was concluded with 5th Regional Symposium on Landslides in Adriatic-Balkan Region (ReSyLAB) in Rijeka, Croatia, in March 2022. The Adriatic-Balkan Network was formally established during the 14th Serbian Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnics in Belgrade in September 2012 based on the Proposal of the ICL Adriatic-Balkan Network that was approved at the 10th Anniversary Meeting of ICL held in Kyoto, Japan, in January 2012. The main outcome of the Adriatic-Balkan Network activity is organization of biannual Regional Symposiums on Landslides, organized in Zagreb, Croatia, 2013; Belgrade, Serbia, 2015; Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2017; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019; and the last one in Rijeka, Croatia in March 2022. In this paper, the establishment, objectives and activities of Adriatic-Balkan Network (ABN) within last ten years were presented as well as main outcomes of the 5th ReSyLAB held in Rijeka, Croatia, in March 2022.