Dear All
1ST EPICENTRE- Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR) International Risk
Perception Symposium - Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century
To be held on Monday 26th October 2009
Venue: Old Refectory, University College London
Over the last few decades the world has seen an increasing rate of natural
disasters, mainly impacting upon cities. Despite growing efforts to reduce the
risk, disaster losses have continued to accelerate. This has highlighted the
need to improve our understanding of the contributors to risk in communities,
and the factors that shape vulnerability and resilience. Risk perception
concerning natural hazards is affected by issues including personal experience,
perceived vulnerability of built environment, governance and social structure,
and can influence what people do to prepare for and during a natural hazard
event. To date research in this area has been conducted primarily within the
discipline of psychology and has been region specific.
This conference will bring together psychologists, other social scientists and
engineers working on disasters to discuss risk perception research on a multi-
national and multi-disciplinary scale. Speakers from New Zealand, Japan,
Turkey and the UK will discuss their experience in risk perception research. In
particular the UK researchers will speak of a multi-nation study they are
carrying out, which involves interactions with engineers.
The Symposium aims to explore the challenges faced by multi-cultural studies
of risk perception and the challenges of working across disciplines, with the
aim of identifying key gaps in knowledge and collaborative research that may
bridge these gaps.
Confirmed speakers include: Prof. Nuray Karanci (Middle East Technical
University, Turkey), Prof. Katsuya Yamori (Kyoto University, Japan), Dr David
Johnston (JCDR, New Zealand), Dr John Twigg (UCL, Aon-Benfields UCL Hazard
Research Centre), Dr Helene Joffe (UCL, Psychology), and Dr Tiziana Rossetto
(UCL, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering).
If you would like to attend please register your interest by completing the
online form: http://www.cege.ucl.ac.uk/Home/epicentresymposium/registration
Registration fee: £40
We are also looking for sponsors for the event. Sponsorship packages cost
£500 and include:
• 3 delegate spaces at the Symposium
• Single space delegate stand
• Inclusion of your organisation’s publicity materials at the Symposium
• Logos on all Symposium publicity material (brochures and EPICentre website –
www.epicentreonline.com)
Please do forward this to any other individuals who may be interested.
Kind regards,
Bhupinder
Ms. Bhupinder Sehra
Graduate Development
Department of Civil, Environmental
and Geomatic Engineering
&
Department of Statistical Science
UCL, Gower Street,
London, WC1E 6BT
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4428
Extension 34428
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