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ECI Conference: Geohazards - Technical,
Economical and Social Risk Evaluation
18 - 21 June 2006, Lillehammer, Norway
The conference is aimed
to be a round table for engineers, geo-scientists, social scientists,
public authorities and insurance companies to discuss the human,
environmental and economical consequences of geohazards. The main aspect
of the conference is the interdisciplinary character of the topics to be
dealt with, such as points of view from public authorities, engineers
and geoscientists, insurance companies, economic aspects, social and
human dimensions, new concepts and techniques in geohazard assessment
and mitigation, research and case studies, and impacts of climate change
(sensitivity of hazards, risk to future climate changes).
The
following keynote lectures will be given at the conference:
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Prof. Herbert Einstein (MIT, Cambridge, USA): "Warning systems for
natural threats"
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Prof. Wilson Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong, China): "Dealing with uncertainty in engineering design"
- Mr Reza Lahidji (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development, Paris, France): "Comparison of risk management policies
in OECD countries"
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Prof. Costas Synolakis (University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, USA): "Risk posed by tsunamis"
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Prof. Mustafa Erdik (Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research
Institute, Istanbul, Turkey): "Urban earthquake risk"
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Dr Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer (International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria): "Insurance and risk transfer -
Reorienting disaster assistance"
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Dr. Carsten Felgentreff (University Osnabrueck, Germany): "Disasters
and decision processes"
Abstract submission and conference registration
Final conference
program
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