*********************************************************************************** NH9.1/EG3 Developing Future Approaches to Climate and Geohazard From: "Rashmin Gunasekera" <gunasekerar@xxxxxxxxxx> *********************************************************************************** Dear colleagues, There still time to submit an abstract to the EGU 2009. We invite papers for the following session at the EGU 2009 (Vienna, Austria, 02-07 May 2010) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Session NH9.1/EG3 Developing Future Approaches to Climate and Geohazard Risk Assessment: Relating Disaster Risk Reduction and Risk Transfer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In our last year's EGU session which brought together leading academics, public policy and commercial stakeholders (including (re)insurance and catastrophe modelling companies) successfully identified significant potential for increased collaborative research between these stakeholders. Building on this success, there are opportunities to harness innovative research and methods from all communities to further improve the confidence and appropriateness of models and methods for natural hazard risk management particularly in the field of volcanic risk. Therefore, this session intends to highlight risk assessment challenges common to all risk practitioners. In particular, we would welcome contributions that focus on: * the problem of data; its quality, availability, accuracy, suitability and role in determining uncertainty when used in Natural Hazard Risk Assessment. * the development of common modelling practises and applications for climate and geo-hazard risk assessment that combine innovative approaches and best practice from each of the public policy, disaster risk management and financial risk transfer communities. This session is particularly timely and topical following COP15 in Copenhagen, which proposes to link Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Risk Transfer as a key element and as an effective international response to Climate Change. It is also directly applicable to the natural hazard modelling community, which shows increased appetite for and scrutiny of more open source initiatives such as Global Earthquake Model (GEM). We encourage submissions from both the social sciences and natural sciences and the presentation of new research, with the intention of stimulating multi-, cross-, and interdisciplinary, debate and discussion. Please submit all abstracts online here: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/abstract_management/index.html Deadline for submission of abstracts: 18th January 2009 For more information, please contact: Rashmin Gunasekera, WRN gunasekerar@xxxxxxxxxx ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
