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From: Jan Lindsay <j.lindsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the session VS012
"Cities on Volcanoes: looking at the links between volcanology and
communities' issues around volcanoes" to be held during the IUGG General
Assembly in Perugia, Italy, 2-13 July, 2007.
*** Electronic abstract submission deadline: 28 February, 2007*****
Please visit the IUGG2007 webpage for details.
http://www.iugg2007perugia.it
You need to register before submitting an abstract!
We look forward to seeing all in Italy.
Session description:
Urban vulnerability to natural hazards is one of the most underestimated
issues in urban development. By 2050, the world population is expected
to grow by three billion people. Almost all this growth will take place
in developing countries, and particularly within their cities and towns.
By more than doubling the urban population, large numbers of people will
be concentrated in megacities and their increasingly fragile landscape,
with huge impacts on the natural resources surrounding them. There are
currently almost 450 cities worldwide with a population of more than one
million inhabitants. The stresses and strains of rapid urbanization are
nowhere more apparent than in developing countries. From today to 2025
about 80% of the world’s urban population will be concentrated in
developing countries. Resulting high population densities will
increasingly place more people at risk to hazards, particularly volcanic
hazards. The Cities on Volcanoes session will explore the links between
the volcanological community, emergency managers and city officials. It
will focus on the role of multi-disciplinary applied research and need
for collaboration between physical and social scientists in reducing
volcanic risk and improving community resilience to volcanic hazards.
Conveners:
Jan Lindsay, Institute of Earth Science and Engineering, Geology
Programme, SGGES, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Email: j.lindsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
David Johnston, GNS Science, Wellington, New Zealand
Email: david.johnston@xxxxxxxxxx
Giovanni Orsi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia –
Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy
Email orsi@xxxxxxxxxx
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Dr. Jan Lindsay
Institute of Earth Science and Engineering &
School of Geography, Geology & Environmental Science
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland Mail Centre
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Ph: (+64) 9 3737599 x 88678
Mobile: 0272911403
Fax: (+64) 9 3737435
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