The public health consequences of natural and intentional disasters cut across many substantive areas. This unique multidisciplinary conference will bring together academicians, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers from public health, mental health, community disaster preparedness and response, social sciences, government, media, and non-governmental organizations.
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This conference is presented by the National Defense Industrial Association with subject matter support from the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. The agenda and training workshops will focus on the future of the directorate while highlighting the collaborations being built at home and around the world to secure America.
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The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) is an international foundation that was established in 1995 under Swiss law to "promote the building and maintenance of peace, security and stability". The GCSP was founded by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, in cooperation with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, as a Swiss contribution to Partnership for Peace (PfP). The focus of this symposium is "Potential Global Strategic Catastrophes."
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This conference promises a very interesting program and will address important public safety issues. This will also be a very important meeting for the further formalization of the Forum and election of its first officers. You are invited to take part in forming this very important Forum dealing with global public safety communication issues. It is still possible to become a member of PSC Europe Forum, which now has 435 members from 45 countries.
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This year’s theme is "Resiliency - Individual, Community and Business." The conference features presentations, networking, and learning about emergency management, business continuity, emergency response, risk management, information technology, disaster recovery, emergency health, and related disaster management disciplines.
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The conference is jointly sponsored by the Colorado Department of Human Service’s Mental Health Division, the Office of the Command Surgeon at U. S. Northern Command, and the CU Trauma, Health, and Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. As an exhibitor at least year’s National Homeland Defense Symposium, you know the value of interacting with those who serve the nation’s growing homeland security community, and we expect many of those in this community to attend our conference as well.
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The European Group for Organizational Studies is accepting papers on risk perceptions, the institutional construction of risks and crisis management as well as more theoretical and methodical papers dealing with risk. Deadline for abstract submissions is January 13, 2008.
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The Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop is designed to bring members of the research and applications communities together for face-to-face networking and discussion of cutting-edge issues related to hazards and disasters and society’s efforts to deal with them. It provides a dynamic, provocative, and challenging forum for the diverse opinions and perspectives of the hazards community.
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Hosted by the American Public Works Association (APWA), this conference will showcase public works professionals who display outstanding qualities of innovation, leadership, and resourcefulness in meeting the challenges of engineering and technology. Presentations will share lessons learned, "how we did it" case studies, strategies for addressing emerging trends, and practical and relevant methods for dealing with the critical issues facing public works today. A special track will be reserved for presentations highlighting the renewal and recovery efforts in the Gulf States region.
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How do people make sense of the unexpected? What are the lived experiences of the unthinkable? How do people cope with strain, socially, culturally and materially? Our aim with the workshop is to get scholars who carry out research in communities in strain together to discuss different aspects of such phenomena. We want to explore how experience of calamity is expressed on different levels, in practice, in narratives, in images and/or in performance. We welcome papers on all related topics, such as emotions, symbolics, memory making, inter/subjectivity, identity, aesthetics, diversity.
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The general theme is Sociological Research and Public Debate and a comprehensive plan of communication will be elaborated trying to project as much as possible the Forum towards the media and citizenry, and organizing a series of debates open to general public amongst prominent sociologists participating in the event, specialists of other disciplines and relevant actors of the public sphere.
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The expected outcome of IDRC Davos 2008 is to build stronger ties between disaster and risk management communities and sectors, in particular with the private sector, and to devise approaches to move towards a more truly integrated way of thinking about disaster and risk management - in line with the conference motto: "public-private partnership - key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation".
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The theme of Symposium VI is "Securing our Homelands Through International Collaboration; Neighbors Helping Neighbors." The symposium fosters the exchange of ideas and technologies among government, industry and the military.
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The term Resilience Engineering represents a new way of thinking about safety. Whereas established risk management approaches are based on hindsight and emphasize error tabulation and calculation of failure probabilities, Resilience Engineering looks for ways to enhance the ability of organizations to create processes that are robust yet flexible, to monitor and revise risk models, and to use resources proactively in the face of disruptions or ongoing production and economic pressures.
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The conference supports the evolving disaster management field by inviting speakers from all jurisdictions across Canada and the United States to discuss new ideas, concepts and technology and to share this knowledge with delegates from our region. This in turn provides an opportunity for community emergency practitioners to improve their knowledge and skill level and keep abreast of new and improving technology and concepts of operation.
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Delegates will convene in Washington, DC on December 16-17, 2008 for the third National Congress on Secure Communities. Sponsored by the the Corporate Crisis Response Officers Association (CCROA) and other partners of the ReadyCommunities Partnership, the Congress brings together federal, state and local officials, first responders, members of the media, business leaders, non-profit organizations, academic experts, and pilot community leaders as Delegates to the Congress. The Delegates, and Alternates who are not able to attend but who can connect via the Internet, will help develop simple but effective pilot demonstrations that leverage the assets of the private and community sectors to augment the local public sector preparedness and response plan during the first 72 hours of crisis.
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The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is an independent, scholarly association, which supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national cooperation of many thousands of academics and graduate students specialising in political science and all its sub-disciplines. ECPR membership is institutional rather than individual and from 8 members (Bergen, Gothenburg, Essex, Leiden, Mannheim, Nuffield College (Oxford), Strathclyde and Paris (FNSP)) at its inception in 1970 membership now stands at over 300 institutions throughout Europe, with associate members spread across the world.
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Hosted by the International Sociological Association (ISA), a non-profit association for scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences.
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The 5th annual ISCRAM conference brings together crisis management and information technology experts from academia and practice. The conference provides an important networking opportunity where the latest research on the design, development, use and evaluation of information systems for crisis response and management are presented and discussed. The conference will take place at the George Washington University and is hosted by the Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management. The theme is "Creating Advanced Systems for Inter-organizational Information Sharing and Collaboration".
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The 4th international i-Rec conference will focus on several key areas that contribute to the reconstruction: Project management and stakeholder participation in reconstruction Legal and policy frameworks for reconstruction Finance and resources for reconstruction Urban planning and design for post-disaster reconstruction Education and training for reconstruction
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This event focuses on several aspects of disaster management involving prevention, mitigation, and preparedness in early disaster-phase and post-disaster relief, rehabilitation, and crisis management.
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The aim of "Resilience, adaptation and transformation in turbulent times - preparing for change in social-ecological systems" is to bring together scientists working with the complex dynamics of interconnected social-ecological systems and to present, discuss, and if possible, summarise the current understanding of resilience, adaptability and pathways of transformation in such systems. Representatives from government, business and other major actors will be invited to discuss the challenges facing societal development, and together with scientists propose directions to go and pathways to avoid.
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SDMI and the Swedish National Defence College will host a conference that invites scholars with knowledge of specific future threats and experts on crisis and disaster management.
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The Disasters Roundtable's mission is to facilitate and enhance communication and the exchange of ideas among scientists, practitioners, and policymakers in order to identify urgent and important issues related to the understanding and mitigation of natural, technological, and other disasters
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This conference has grown into the largest emergency management conference in the Pacific Northwest, bringing together non-profit organizations, public agencies, business and industry, military, healthcare, and schools to explore emergency management issues, principles, and practices. The theme for the 2008 conference is "It’s a Different World: Looking to the Future."
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The Disaster response challenge is a unique two-day event exclusive to the British Red Cross. It provides an opportunity for participants to experience firsthand the issues and decisions faced by the British Red Cross Emergency Response Unit (ERU), something that only a handful of people get to experience in a lifetime.
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The Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) is actively seeking abstracts or completed papers for the conference paper sessions. Sessions include: Sociology & Public Policy and Bridging Communities: Hazards, Disasters and the Public. MSS, founded in 1936, is a professional organization of academic and applied sociologists as well as students of the discipline. Nearly 1200 scholars, students and practicing sociologists in universities, government and business belong to the organization.
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The landscape of international relations research is diverse and vibrant, with a wide variety of ontological, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. IR scholarship is empirical and normative, conservative and liberal, systemic and individual, activist and academic, material and ideational, positivist and post-positivist. While these different viewpoints give us great leverage for studying international relations, they often create artificial barriers between scholarly communities.
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Wilton Park is a non-profit agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It is academically independent, and seeks through higher-level residential conferences to promote international dialogue and understanding on issues of importance amongst senior parliamentarians, diplomats, officials, experts, and academics. The off-the-record proceedings are intended to be informal and highly participative. This conference will address questions such as: What is critical infrastructure in an interdependent global economy? What issues surround transnational resilience and protection, and the security of cross-border infrastructure links? What are the prospects for international and institutional cooperation? How can responsibilities be divided between state, civil authorities and the private sector? What exactly constitutes ‘best practice’ internationally
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The National Congress for Secure Communities is a joint meeting convened by partners working together to develop ways that communities can leverage private and community sectors assets to augment the local public sector response capability during the critical first 72 hours of crisis. The Congress will provide local leaders an opportunity to work together and develop plans that augment the local public sector capability with community sector assets, so that the community can survive while waiting for federal and state reinforcements.
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This year’s conference focuses on the management of large-scale natural and man-made disasters and encourages casual and productive interactions among participants in various research fields of disaster reduction. With its multidisciplinary scope, the 2nd ICUDR offers an excellent forum for covering a wide range of topics, including mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery for urban disasters. It will include a keynote speech, plenary session, group session, poster session, and booth exhibition.
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In times where natural and manmade disasters are on the increase, the debate on how to prevent, prepare for and respond to disasters never seems to cease. Moreover the adoption of new laws adds flavour to the subject. The Second Civil Protection Forum aims to bring together some 500 people involved or interested in civil protection. The forum will provide participants with a platform for the exchange of ideas and an opportunity to meet other people sharing the same interest or profession.
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Sponsor: Pacific Northwest Preparedness Society. This conference supports the evolving disaster management field by inviting speakers from all jurisdictions across Canada and the United States to discuss new ideas, concepts, and technology and to share this knowledge with delegates from the region. This, in turn, provides an opportunity for community emergency practitioners to improve their knowledge and skill level and keep abreast of new and improving technology and concepts of operation.
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This social research conference, sponsored by The New School, is dedicated to enhancing public understanding of disaster through multidisciplinary discussion. Leading experts will explore the commonalities of all disasters, the unequal protection and treatment of populations made vulnerable by their location or socioeconomic status, the impact of disasters on the economy and develop, and much more.
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Has been designed to meet the educational needs of all persons and agencies involved with emergency preparedness, response, and disaster recovery. This year’s Planning Committee acknowledges the unique role that the myriad of first responders, response agencies and communities play in planning for, responding to, and mitigating disasters. The conference theme "Prepare Freedom's Lifelines" is evident throughout all of this year’s educational programs and tracks.
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