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Forthcoming Special Issue of International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Forthcoming Special Issue of International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

March 11, 2019

 

Forthcoming Special Issue of International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR) on the topic of Cascading Effects in Disaster Risk Science: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives. Based on the International Workshop on Cascading Disaster Held at the Technion in November 2018. Publication date: early 2020. 

 

Seminar on Modeling Disasters in the Urban Environment

Seminar on Modeling Disasters in the Urban Environment

March 11, 2019

 

Seminar on Modeling Disasters in the Urban Environment was held on Feb 27th at IRIDeS (see attached program and pictures). This followed a DIM2SEA project meeting on Feb 26th that was attended by Daniel Felsenstein, Eilat Elbaum and Masha Vernick from Israel, and Erick Mas and Luis Moya from Japan.

 

 

The dim2sea/NKRCER International workshop on the topic "Cascading Disasters: Theory, Methods and Empirics" was held at the Technion, 28-29th November 2018.

The dim2sea/NKRCER International workshop on the topic "Cascading Disasters: Theory, Methods and Empirics" was held at the Technion, 28-29th November 2018.

December 2, 2018

The first day was devoted to an academic workshop and the second day to an open public meeting and site visits. 
The latter included a tour of the Haifa Municipality Emergency Command Center and the Rambam Medical Center Emergency Hospital facility.

International Joint Workshop dim2sea/NKRCER on the topic of 'Cascading Disasters: Theory, Methods and Empirics' to be held at the Technion, 28th November 2018

October 17, 2018

 

Background: The intention of this workshop is to address the topic from multi-disciplinary perspectives, including, but not limited to, approaches based in hazards engineering and planning, social and environmental sciences and policy, sociology and social work, public health and emergency medicine, computational modelling and economics.

Presentation at AQR-IREA annual workshop in Barcelona

October 13, 2018

The AQR-IREA is an annual workshop hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona. This year’s workshop focused on territorial resilience. As part of the workshop one of DIM2SEA’s papers was presented by Peleg Samuels (abstract). The paper, published this year in a special issue of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), focused on the theoretical implications of labor mobility and trade to the local labor market.

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World Bosai Forum, USMCA 2017 meeting and Project Progress Meeting, Sendai 26-29th November 2017

December 3, 2017

The DIM2SEA project meeting coincided with these international events. DIM2SEA presentations won two awards: Luis Moya's paper, on Debris Extent Assessment from Lidar Data, won the Excellent Young Researcher Award, and the DIM2SEA poster won the Academic Research Poster Award (see Conference Presentations and Gallery).