WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT TO OUR MEMBER PROF. PAOLO CANUTI, ALREADY PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN NATIONAL GROUP AND VICE-PRESIDENT FOR EUROPE OF THE IAEG, HAS BEEN AWARDED THE PRESTIGIOUS VARNES MEDAL BY THE INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM ON LANDSLIDES-ICL, OF WHICH HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS AND SECOND PRESIDENT.

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CONGRATULATIONS

Varnes Medal

The Varnes Medal is the highest award provided by the International Consortium on Landslides; it recognizes professional excellence in landslide research. Nominees for the Varnes Medal must meet at least two of the following criteria:

  • Professional excellence in landslide research
  • Professional excellence in landslide disaster risk reduction (new criteria)
  • Significant contribution to the development of ICL and IPL (new criteria)
  • Significant contribution to public education regarding landslide hazards
  • International recognition for a professional career involving landslides
  • Influential landslide research or development of methods or techniques
  • Teacher of students who work on landslide issues

The past recipients of Varnes Medal are:

  •  Robert Schuster (US Geological Survey, USA) , 2nd Session of BOR/ICL at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada in October 2003
  • John Hutchinson (Imperial Colleague, UK), 3rd Sesson of BOR/ICL at Druzba Hotel, Bratislava, Slovakia in October 2004
  • Masami Fukuoka (University of Tokyo, Japan), 4th Session of BOR/ICL at Keck Center of the National Academy of Science, Washington D.C., USA in October 2005
  •  Norbert R. Morgenstern (University of Alberta, Canada), 5th Session of BOR/ICL at Bonvin Building, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France in November 2006
  •  Edward Derybyshire (University of Leicester, UK), 6th Session of BOR/ICL at Bonvin Building, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France in November 2007
  • David Cruden (University of Alberta, Canada), 7th Session of BOR/ICL at the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan in November 2008
  •  Zaiguan Lin (Leader of China-Japan Joint research on Landslide hazard assessment at Cultural heritage sites in Xi’an. It developed to IGCP-425 “Landslide Hazard Assessment and Cultural Heritage” which was further develop to ICL and IPL), 9th Session of BOR/ICL at Bonvin Building, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France in November 2010
  •  Rajendra Kumar Bhandari (Central Building Research Institute, India), 11th session of BOR/ICL, at Bonvin Building, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France in November 2012
  •  Luciano Picarelli (Seconda Università di Napoli), 13th session of BOR/ICL, at National Convention Center, Beijing, China, in June 2014
  •  Oldrich Hungr (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), at 14th BOR/ICL, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan, in March 2015
  •  Jordi Corominas, (Technical University of Catalonia-UPC, Spain), 15th BOR/ICL, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in March 2016
  •  Badaoui Rouhban (Former Director, Section for Disaster Reduction, UNESCO), 16th Session of BOR/ICL, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France in November 2016
  •  Salvano Briceno (Former Director, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction　(UNISDR), 17th Session of BOR/ICL, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France in December 2017
  •  Hans van Ginkel (Former Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan). 18th Session of BOR/ICL, DPRI, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in December 2018
  •  Paolo Canuti (Former President of the ICL, University of Florence), 20th Session of BOR/ICL, online/Virtual Conference, Kyoto, Japan in November 2020.