Call for abstracts

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Abstracts should be submitted as a word file via to society@idrim.org

Important Dates
Abstract deadline: 15 July 2010 (extended)
Early registration deadline: 31 July 2010
Notification of abstract acceptance: 21 July 2010

IDRiM 2010 – Tenth Annual Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management: Sharing IDRiM experiences under different socio-economic and cultural contexts will take place at BOKU University, in Vienna, Austria from 1-4 September 2010.

Organizers:
The conference is being co-organized by
BOKU University
the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) of Kyoto University
and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

Venue
The conference will be held at BOKU (18th district), Vienna, Austria

Call for abstracts
Abstracts of 250-300 words in the following topics on Integrated Disaster Risk Management are encouraged:

  • Disaster risk assessment
  • Concern assessment and participatory disaster risk management
  • Stakeholder involvement and communication
  • Disaster vulnerability assessment
  • Disaster prevention and mitigation
  • Disaster recovery and reconstruction
  • Enhancing resilience
  • Business continuity
  • Institutional/ organizational arrangements
  • Risk governance
  • Policy for integrated disaster risk management
  • Financing risk (e.g., catastrophe insurance)
  • Economics and cost/benefit analysis
  • Natural hazards, made-made hazards and multi-hazards
  • Flood protection
  • Earthquake risk management
  • Natechs
  • Climate change
  • Disaster reduction hyperbase (DRH)
  • Lessons learned from extreme events (e.g., volcanic ash cloud, oil spill in Gulf of Mexico)

Abstracts should be submitted as a word file via to society@idrim.org

Important Dates
Abstract deadline: 15 July 2010 (extended)
Early registration deadline: 31 July 2010
Notification of abstract acceptance: 21 July 2010