Mitigation of Landslide Hazards in Ukraine Under the Guidance of ICL: 2009–2016 (IPL-153, IPL-191)
Year: 2017

More than 90% of the territory of Ukraine has complex soil conditions. The number of landslides has increased by a factor of 1.3 in the last 15 years, and by a factor of about 3 over the last 30 years. Ukraine became a member of ICL only in 2009. The main task of Ukrainian division of ICL (UDICL) from 2009 to 2016 was and still is the implementation of the National Plan (the State Programme) on lanslide hazards mitigation. Because of a lack of governmental or any other support during the above y