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GLOBAL RISK FORUM GRF DAVOS

Session O

 

Subject

Disaster Risk Analysis and Important Infrastructure Safety Management

Date

13.07.09

Time

13:30 - 15:30

Room

 

Type

Special Session

Description

With the growing influence on nature by human beings’ activities, all kinds of potential and real disaster risk becomes more complicated and unpredicted to human. Strengthening disaster risk analysis and safety management on major infrastructure will be helpful to reduce huge loss for human society. The special session will discuss the influence impacted by natural and man-made disasters and the role by strengthening infrastructure management in disaster risk management.

Convener

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Speakers

Amina Abdessemed-Foufa
University of Blida, Algeria
Subject: Seismic Vulnerability Evaluation of Masonry Buildings during the 1989 Tipaza and 2003 Boumerdes Earthquakes (Algeria)

 

Chiharu Mizuki
Hokkaido Univiversity, Japan
Subject: Evaluation to the Measures for Floods Risk in Urban Area: A Case Study of Kita-Ward, Tokyo

 

Niranjan Sahu
PSU, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Specialist, India
Subject: Community Coping Mechanisms to Natural Disasters through Participatory Integrated Watershed Development

 

Vladimir Prelov
Institute for Machine Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
Subject: Normal and Emergency Systems for Control of Critical Infrastructures

 


 
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