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Aim and Scope
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Recent natural disasters including the Tohoku, Haiti and Chile earthquakes,
tsunami, and the volcanic ash disruption to European air space demonstrated
that the impact of disaster spread worldwide. Furthermore, the accident
at the nuclear power plant triggered by Tohoku tsunami in Japan have
highlighted difficulties of disaster preparedness. We need to develop
multi-hazard, interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder, and comprehensive approaches
to disaster risk reduction. We also need to rethink the way we design our
infrastructure to mitigate disaster loss and to accelerate recovery process.
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Conference Themes
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- Hazard mitigation, emergency response and recovery planning
- Socio-economic strategies for disaster risk reduction
- Social vulnerability
- Database and data models development
- Transportation systems
- Critical infrastructure
- Information systems
- Natural and technological (Natech) disasters
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Conference Committees
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Conference Chairs |
Prof. Shoshi Mizokami |
Kumamoto University, Japan |
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Conference Co-Chairs |
Prof. Ryuji Kakimoto
Prof. Fumihiko Yamada |
Kumamoto University, Japan
Kumamoto University, Japan |
Orgnzier
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The International Institute for Infrastructure Renewal and Reconstruction
(IIIRR) is a multi-university international consortium which provides overall
leadership in research, education, planning, design and implementation
for mitigation of the impact of natural disasters and infrastructure renewal
and reconstruction projects in tsunami affected or underdeveloped regions. |
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Kumamoto University is one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious national university. Currently,
the university is home to more than 8,000 undergraduate students and 2,000
graduate students, including 345 international students from 44 countries.
For over 100 years our university has been at the forefront of culture,
advancing science and technology, and contributing to the development of
the Japanese educational system. |
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