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AGU 2014. Session 2480: Persistent and recurring natural hazards: Disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management
From: "Saskia.Vanmanen" <saskia.vanmanen@xxxxxxxxxx>AGU 2014. Session 2480: Persistent and recurring natural hazards: Disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite your contributions to 'Persistent and recurring natural hazards: Disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management’ at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, December 15-19, San Francisco.
We invite your contributions to 'Persistent and recurring natural hazards: Disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management’ at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, December 15-19, San Francisco.
The abstract deadline is August 6.
Session ID#: 2480
Session Description:
This session focuses on prolonged and
frequent natural hazard events. The huge human, environmental and
economic costs of natural disasters are set to increase in the future as
changes to society and an increasing global
population force larger numbers of people to live at high risk.
Understanding the socio-economic, political and cultural contexts of
hazards, and combining these perspectives with insights derived from the
physical sciences, is paramount to comprehensive prevention
and mitigation of the devastating effects of natural phenomena, but how
can this be achieved most effectively in areas of persistent or
recurring hazards, whose impacts occur and are only perceptible over
extended timescales? In
this interdisciplinary session we invite applied and theoretical
contributions that cover a wide range of approaches, natural hazards and
time scales. We particularly encourage multi-disciplinary submissions
and examples of successfully implemented disaster
risk reduction strategies in complex protracted or recurring hazard
events.
Sincerely,
Saskia van Manen, The Open University, U.K., Saskia.vanmanen@xxxxxxxxxx
Bruce F Houghton,
University of Hawaii Manoa, United States
Graham Leonard,
GNS Science, New Zealand
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