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Disaster
Mitigation in Asia
Issue No. 8
30 November 2003
A. From
the Region
B. Calls for Submission
C. Conferences &
Courses
D. Useful Resources
CALLS
FOR SUBMISSION
Scholarship
Award in Planning and Natural Hazards
The
Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), together with the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), will grant
one award recognizing scholarship in the general area of planning
and natural hazards. Eligible papers must be accepted for presentation
and presented at the ACSP conference October 21-24, 2004, in Portland,
Oregon.
Papers should address land use or other types of planning that incorporate
natural hazards, including, but not limited to: flooding, coastal
erosion, land subsidence, earthquakes, or other geologic or meteorological
hazard impacts that can be minimized through community, regional,
or state planning. Abstracts may be submitted directly to the ACSP
conference organizers between January 5 and February 16, 2004.
For more information, please contact
Robert Paterson, e-mail: <paterson@uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Website: <http://www.acsp.org>.
Call for Papers for Special Journal Issue
The
"International Journal of Water Resources Development"
(IJWRD) is seeking paper submissions for a special issue on water
and disasters.
Contributions
could be empirical studies, case histories, conceptual-theoretical
investigations, policy perspectives, institutional analysis, and
risk analysis, among others. All papers selected for consideration
will be peer-reviewed. The issue will be released in June 2005.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, integrated disaster
risk management's application to floods and famines, institutional
dimensions of flood risk management, case histories of major flood
disasters or famines, public-private partnerships, water impacts
on earthquakes, hurricanes, and typhoons, human and societal hazards
of floods and famines, information dissemination, and the cultural
context of floods and famines. The deadline for submission is June
1, 2004.
For more information, please contact Chennat Gopalakrishnan,
e-mail
<chennat@hawaii.edu>.
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