Union Symposium U4, "Geophysical Risk and Sustainability
on a Crowded Planet"
Sapporo, Japan, 29 June to 11 July 2003
The GeoRisk Commission is organizing an all-day Union Symposium on
GeoRisk as a part of the overall focus on "State of the Planet:
frontiers and challenges".
This session will be by invitation only.
As the world's cities continue to grow, they become ever more vulnerable.
The vulnerability can manifest itself in relation to external threats
and hazards, and in relation to internal social and environmental problems.
The sustainability of cities, and especially megacities, depends on
the interaction between the social environment and the physical environment.
This symposium deals with the sustainability issues that arise as a
result of these threats, hazards and problems.
Conveners: Tom
Beer (CSIRO, Australia) and Grant
Heiken (Los Alamos, USA)
| Speaker |
Affiliation |
Subject |
Tenatative Title |
Invitation sent |
Invitation accepted |
| Beer/Heiken |
IUGG |
Overview |
Geophysical risk and sustainability |
1/7/02 |
1/7/02 |
| Seiya Uyeda |
IUGS |
Seismic risk |
Seismic hazard and vulnerability |
|
1/02 |
| Eddie Bernard |
ITC |
Tsunamis |
Coastal cities and their problems |
1/2002 |
1/2002 |
| Gerald Mills |
ICUC |
Cities |
Urban climate, weather and sustainability |
1/2002 |
1/2002 |
| Berrien Moore III |
IGBP |
Sustainability |
Geosphere-Biosphere and Sustainability |
1/2002 |
1/2002 |
| Ian Douglas |
SCOPE |
Human action |
Human action and geophysical vulnerability |
1/2002 |
1/2002 |
| Susan Cutter |
IGU |
Human responses |
Human responses and geophysical vulnerability |
1/2002 |
1/2002 |
*Acronyms: WCRP (World Climate Research Program), IAUC (Intl. Assoc.
for Urban Climate), IUGS (Intl Union of Geological Sciences), SCOPE
(Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), IGU (Intl. Geographical
Union), IHDP (Intl. Human Dimensions Program), and IGBP (Intl. Geosphere-Biosphere
Program). Diversitas (Scientific Committee On Problems of the Environment),
ITC (Intl. Tsunami Commission)