Central Asia Rockslides Inventory: Compilation, Analysis and Training—Progress of the IPL WCoE

Abstract

JSC “Hydroproject Institute” together with Institute of Seismology of National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic were awarded a World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoE) since the 1st World Landslide Forum in 2008. This award was confirmed during the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th World Landslide Forums. The core activity of this WCoE is the Kokomeren Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena—a two-week long annual field training course aimed to acquaint students and young landslide researchers with unique and very didactic examples of large-scale rockslides, rock avalanches and manifestations of active tectonics abundant in the Kokomeren River basin in Central Tien Shan. Further development of these activities evolved in compilation of the complete rockslide database of the entire Central Asia Region embracing Pamir, Tien Shan and Dzungaria that belong to six states—Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.