{"id":5964,"date":"2016-07-11T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T08:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T08:46:32","slug":"facing-disasters-international-disaster-management-and-humanitarian-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/facing-disasters-international-disaster-management-and-humanitarian-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Disasters: International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>28\/07\/2016, 13:00 \u2013 20:00<\/p>\n<p>Cruciform B304 Lecture Theatre, University College London<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration: The symposium is free of charge but prior registration is required via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/facing-disasters-international-disaster-management-and-humanitarian-responses-tickets-26136444810\">Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disasters occur in many parts of the world every year. Based on experience from the Great East-Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, the aim of this public symposium is to discuss how to build safety systems and resilience against future disasters. Scientific views of, and human problems after the disaster will be discussed with talks given by representatives of academia, industry and Japanese local government.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium will start with a keynote lecture by <strong>Prof. Peter Sammonds<\/strong> (Director, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction), which will be followed by two sessions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I. Report from Fukushima<\/strong> &#8211; speakers from, and recently visited Fukushima, will discuss its current state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II. How should we face disasters?<\/strong> &#8211; speakers from the youth generation, industry and academia will talk about disaster resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Following the symposium, UCL-Fukushima reception will be held in UCL South Cloisters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>13:00 Opening remark by Prof. Shin-Ichi Onuma (UCL-Japan Youth Challenge)<\/p>\n<p>13:10 Keynote presentation by Prof. Peter Sammonds (UCL IRDR)<\/p>\n<p>13:45 <strong>Session 1 \u2013 Report from Fukushima<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ryuji Suzuki (Fukushima Prefecture) \u201cFukushima then and now\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hiroka Horie (Fukushima High School) \u201cAgriculture in Fukushima\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gaku Oikawa (Fukushima High School) \u201cEvacuation and return in Fukushima\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Serena Tagliacozzo (UCL IRDR) \u201cInformation, communication and social media use after Fukushima-Daiichi disaster\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Omar Velazquez Ortiz (UCL IRDR) \u201cEarthquake early warning system for nuclear power plants\u201d<\/p>\n<p>15:10 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p>15:40 <strong>Session 2 \u2013 How should we face disasters?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of student from UCL-Japan Youth Challenge workshop<br \/>\n\u201cDisaster resilience from next generation\u2019s viewpoint\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Yuka Kusaka (IHI, Corp. Japan)<br \/>\n\u201cContribution for large-scale disaster as one of industrial companies\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Shuhei Nomura (Imperial College London)<br \/>\n\u201cPost-nuclear evacuation and health risks in Fukushima\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ilan Kelman (UCL IRDR)<br \/>\n\u201cMaternal psychological health after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami\u201d<\/p>\n<p>18:00 <strong>UCL-Fukushima reception in UCL South Cloisters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venue: Cruciform B304 Lecture Theatre, University College London (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/maps\/cruciform-building\">map<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Organisers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.young-challenge.science\/\">UCL-Japan Youth Challenge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/rdr\">UCL Institute of Risk &amp; Disaster Reduction<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tif.ne.jp\/lang\/en\/\">Fukushima Prefecture<\/a>, supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/grand-challenges\">UCL Grand Challenges<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbsf.org.uk\/\">Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihi.co.jp\/en\/\">IHI Corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries: Please contact Dr. Ryo Torii (r.torii@ucl.ac.uk) for enquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28\/07\/2016, 13:00 \u2013 20:00 Cruciform B304 Lecture Theatre, University College London Registration: The symposium is free of charge but prior registration is required via\u00a0Eventbrite. Overview Disasters occur in many parts of the world every year. Based on experience from the Great East-Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, the aim of this public symposium is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange","category-international-cooperation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}