University College London will host an Anglo-Japan Symposium on Anglo-Japan symposium "Building Resilient and Adaptable Infrastructure and Society -Drawing on Experiences of Tohoku Earthquake in 2011"
This free-of-charge event will discuss the resilience of our infrastructure and adoption to long-term energy-supply changes. It will be based on Japanese experience during and after Tohoku Earthquake 2011 but discuss its implications for the UK. The speakers will be from both Japan and the UK. The conference programme is attached below.
For more information and registration, please see
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/resilience-research/symposium/
Conference date: Thursday 15th and Friday 16th November
Venue: University College London
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Thursday 15th November:
9.30 - 10.00: Registration & Tea
10.00 - 10.30: Opening addresses
* Dr Helena Titheridge (UCL Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience, Director)
* Prof Kozo Hiramatsu (JSPS London, Director)
* Richard Coackley (Institution of Civil Engineers, ex-President)
10.30 - 12.00: Keynote lectures and discussions
* Prof Brian Collins (UCL Centre for Engineering Policy, Director) Title: Sustainable Smart Resilient Infrastructure - a multidisciplinary engineering challenge
* Prof Haruo Ishida (JSCE, Chair of the subcommittee of Anglo-Japan collaboration on sustainable transport, Tsukuba University) Title: The Japanese challenges toward new infrastructure development policy
12.00-12.30: Plenary Session 1: Infrastructure and Society
* Prof Nick Tyler (UCL, pro-Provost for East and South Asia, Head of Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) Title: Revisioning infrastructure for a sustainable society: a challenge for both the UK and Japan
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Including poster presentations of early-stage researchers
13.10-13.50 Interactive sessions on developing a network of early career researchers (including short pitches, group discussions)
* 13.10-13.50 Interactive sessions on developing a network of early career researchers (including short pitches, group discussions)
14.00 - 15.00 Plenary Session 2: Increasing Resilience of Infrastructure
* Prof Yozo Fujino (Tokyo University) Title: TBA
* John Parry (ICE, Sustainable Committee) Title: The UK Response to the Challenge of Climate Change Implications
15.00 - 15.30 JSPS Presentations
* Presentations about funding schemes available for Anglo-Japan collaboration
15.30 - 16.15 Tea
16.15 - 17.30 Workshops
* Workshop 1: Developing Collaborative Research on Resilience of Transport Infrastructure (Malet Place Engineering 1.20) Interactive sessions (Facilitator: Dr Taku Fujiyama)
* Workshop 2: Developing Collaborative Research to achieve sustainable energy behaviour (Gordon House 106) Interactive sessions
Friday 16th November
9.00 - 10.00: Session 2: Effects of the Tohoku Earthquake
* Theme: What are the effects of the Tohoku Earthquake on transport systems and the global economy?
* Prof Tetsuo Hyodo (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)Title: Effects of electric power failure on railway transport service in the Tokyo metropolitan area after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
* Dr Francesca Medda (UCL) Title: Economic Impacts of Tohoku Earthquake on global supply chains (TBC)
10.00 - 11.00: Session 3: Managing adverse effects of disruptions
* Theme: How can we alleviate adverse effects of a disaster? How should we prepare?
* Yukihiro Tsukada (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) Title: The formation of resilient road network based on the lessons learned by massive earthquakes
* Dr Taku Fujiyama (UCL) Title: Analysing risks within interdependencies of transport systems
11.00 - 11.30 Tea
11.30 - 13.00: Session 4: Managing energy use to cope with energy shortage
* Theme: How did change the energy use behaviour after the earthquake? What lessons can we learn from it?
* Dr Naohisa Okamoto (Tsukuba Univ.) Title: Panel Survey on energy consumption and travel behaviour after the Great East Japan Earthquake
* Prof Akimasa Fujiwara (Hiroshima Univ.)Title: Changes in energy consumption behaviour after the super-scale disaster in North-East Japan
* Dr Helena Titheridge (UCL) Title: The impact of the September 2000 British fuel protests on travel behaviour and attitudes towards environmental taxation (TBC)
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.15: Session 5: Managing transition to embrace long-term changes
* Theme: How can we embrace changes and move towards a sustainable society?
* Yuki Tanaka (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) Title: Society of Energy-Saving Transport System - Challenging Society or Ideal Utopia?
* TBA
15.15 - 15.30: Closing
* Prof Akimasa Fujiwara (Hiroshima Univ.)
Please note that the programme of the 2nd day is subject to change.
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Taku Fujiyama, PhD
Lecturer, Graduate Tutor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/resilience-research/
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