August 31, 2012
Global Risk Forum Davos Business Continuity Conference
International Disaster and Risk Conferences
Davos, Switzerland
Cost and Registration: $378, open until filled
This conference, which discusses business continuity during local and international crises, follows the five-day Global Risk Forum in Davos. Topics include supply chain management, effective communication with shareholders and the public, reputation management, and lessons learned from recent large-scale disasters.
September 1-7, 2012
World Urban Forum
UN Human Settlements Programme
Naples, Italy
Cost and Registration: Free, open until filled
This conference will discuss rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, economies, and climate change. Topics include reducing risks from natural hazards, minimizing the costs of maintaining infrastructure, mitigating adverse effects of climate change, managing urban waste, and reducing natural hazard risk by retrofitting existing infrastructure.
September 7-9, 2012
From Surprise to Rationality: Managing Unprecedented Large-Scale Disasters
International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management
Beijing, China
Cost and Registration: $400 before July 30, open until filled
This conference will discuss scientific, technical, economic, financial, and educational aspects of large-scale disasters. Topics include theory and methodology in disaster risk science, recovery and reconstruction, economic impacts and financial management of large-scale disasters, managing unprecedented extreme events, and risk assessment modeling.
September 16-21, 2012
Dam Safety 2012
Association of State Dam Safety Officials
Denver, Colorado
Cost and Registration: $750 before August 26, open until filled
This conference will discuss emergency planning for dam safety and geotechnical, structural, seismological, and hydraulic threats to dam security. Topics include emergency action planning, hydraulic dam failure analysis, safety evaluations of existing dams, plant and animal impacts on embankment dams, earthquake engineering for dam safety, and stability analysis of concrete dams.
September 20-21, 2012
International Conference on Hazards and Disasters
International Center for Research and Development
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Cost and Registration: $375, open until filled
This conference will present a broad range of research, promote networking opportunities, and generate new ideas about hazard risk reduction. Session themes include risk management, the economic impact of disasters, environmental and ecological risks, critical infrastructure, emergency medicine, climate change and natural disasters, transportation systems, technological disasters, and traditional knowledge about risk reduction.
September 19-21, 2012
Eighth International Conference on Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation
Wessex Institute of Technology
Island of Brac, Croatia
Cost and Registration: $1,739, open until filled
This conference will discuss new methods for estimating the effects of potential natural and human-caused disasters. Topics include risk mapping, natural hazards and climate change, security and public safety, financial risk assessment, political instability and economic vulnerability, health risk, early warning systems, hazard prevention, and the design and simulation of evacuation procedures.