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IGU-Commission on Hazard and Risk
2008-2012 Commission Shigeko HARUYAMA, Chair
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2008-2012 Commission on Hazard and Risk
1. Steering Committee members
Shigeko Haruyama (Chair) Graduate School of Bioresources,Mie University 1577 Kurimachiyasyo, Tsu, Mie, Japan Tel.: +81-59-231-9576,Fax: +81-59-231-9591 e-Mail: haruyama@bio.mie-u.ac.jp e-mail:haruyama@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Dale Dominey-Howes (Vice Chair) Department of Safety Science University of New South Wales UNSW Sydney NSW 2052, Australia Tel.:
+61-938 54830 E-Mail: Dale.dh@unsw.edu.au
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Juergen Weichselgartner Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center Max-Planck-Strasse
1,D-21502 Geesthacht, Germany |
Victor G. Jetten ITC, Department of Earth Systems Analysis Hengelosestraat
99, P.O. Box 6 Tel.: + 31 (0)53 4874444,Fax: +31 (0)53 4874400 E-Mail: jetten@itc.nl |
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Mahmoud Mohamed Ashour Department of Geography,Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt Tel.: +20-2-4101752,Fax: +20-2-2584079 E-Mail: mmashour_99@yahoo.com |
Charlchai Tanavud Faculty of Natural Resources,Prince of Songkla University Hat Yai, Songkla Province, Thailand Tel.: +66-74 212585,Fax: +66-74 211150 E-Mail: charlchai.t@psu.ac.th |
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Ailsa Holloway Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town Rondebosch, South Africa Tel.: +27-21-650-2987,Fax: +27-21-689-1217 E-Mail: holloway@enviro.uct.ac.za |
Andrey Shmakin Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences Staromonetny per., 29, Moscow 119017,Russia Tel.: +7-495 129 04 74,Fax +7-495 959 00 33 E-Mail: andrey_shmakin@mail.ru |
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Teruko Sato (Secretary) Faculty of Human Science Tokiwa University 1-430-1 Miwa, Mito City, Japan Tel.: +81-29-232-2511,Fax: +81-29-232-2743 E-Mail: trksato@tokiwa.ac.jp
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Enrique Novoa-Jerez. Director |
Dr. Dale Dominey-Howes(Vice Chair 2008-2012) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Safety Science, University of New South Wales, Australia. Dale is a member of the Risk Management Research Group within the School of Safety Science. He holds a senior lectureship in natural hazards and an adjunct research fellowship within the Climate Change Centre, UNSW. Dale is an expert in natural hazards, risk and vulnerability assessment, disaster and emergency management. He is particularly interested in the interconnections between biophysical systems and the socio-economic contexts in which disasters unfold. Dale has worked on natural hazard processes such as earthquakes, river floods, tropical cyclones, tsunami, volcanic eruptions and bushfires in places as diverse as Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Greece, Turkey, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Thailand, Iceland and the Maldives. At the present time, Dale is involved in a number of research projects focusing on tsunami hazard and risk in Australia and has been working collaboratively with the Australian Federal Government in its development and deployment of the Australian Tsunami Warning System.
Prof. Dr. Victor G. Jetten works at ITC’s Department of Earth Systems Analysis in Enschede, Netherlands. His research focuses on the spatial modelling of land degradation processes, and the assessment and improvement of the quality of spatial predictions. His interest is in erosion, land slides, flooding and the effects of desertification on soils and vegetation/crops. He is greatly interested in the interaction between research and stakeholders, and believes that scientists should take their responsibility to assist in preventing or mitigating environmental degradation. His activities focus on the application of research and how best to use the tools we develop in sensible land use, land degradation risk assessment and erosion control.
Dr. Juergen Weichselgartner is Senior Science Coordinator of the IHDP/IGBP Core Project LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone), based at the Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Centre, Germany. He has worked at Harvard University (KSG), Tokyo University (NENV), and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), where he conducted research on various aspects of risk and disaster management and, more recently, on knowledge systems and the science-practice interface. He published several articles, book chapters, and books on hazard management and, since 2002, he has supported the IGU C12 commission activities as secretary.
Prof. Dr. Charlchai Tanavud, works at Faculty of Natural Environment, National Prince Songlar University in Hat Yai city ,Thailand. He is a chair of Commission of Tusnami disaster in Thailand and manages the several symposia for natural hazard. His major studies focus on fluvial geomorphology and environmental assessment impacted by global warming.
Prof. Dr. Enrique Novoa-Jerez, works at Department of Social Sciences, University of La Serena, Chile. He is chair of Physical Geography Applied Program and member of Center of Advances Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA). His research focuses on climatic change and physical geography relationships at local and regional scales of arid and semi-arid ecosystems, with experience in hydro-geomorphology, tsunami hazards and management of vulnerabilities conditions in coastal and desert environments with local governments in Chile and Argentina. He published several articles, book chapters, and books on arid ecosystem.
Honorary Member
1) Former IGU president (1992-1996) Dr. Herman Verstappen, Netherlands, have some suggestion for our commission activities regarding applied geomorphology and capacity and network building. He plays an important support role in the 2008-2012 Commission.
2) Tom Beer, Australia, is Chief Editor of Natural Hazards (Springer) and chair of IUGG Commission on Risk and Sustainability. He is vital in extending networks for natural disaster information collection and database building. He will support our new commission activities.
2. The work of the Commission on Hazard and Risk 2000-2008
The activities of the 2004-2008 Commission focused on bridging the gap between human and physical geography concerning natural hazards; paying attention to the issue of hazards, risks, and vulnerability in the context of sustainable development; improving the international networking of geographical researchers in different countries including international organisations and research programmes; contributing to disaster reduction in high-risk regions; intensifying and strengthening the commission’s work, objectives, and results within the IGU.
2004, Glasgow, UK, 30th International Geographical Congress: A C12 session entitled Vulnerability and Early Warning Systems in Disaster Reduction was held on August 18th.The session included the following contributions: Slope Instability, Management of Natural Hazards, Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Extreme Geographic Processes and Phenomena, Study on the Effect of Geomorphologic Factor on the Urban Expansion Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies, Study on Agricultural Drought Vulnerability, The Influence of Climate Change and Human Activity on the Vulnerability.
2006, Brisbane, Australia, Regional conference: Disasters, Risks & Hazards in general session was held and 14 presentation including Dr. Haruyama gave their presentations and discussed for mitigation in each presentation under Dr. King David. The selected papers have been submitted to the International Journal Natural Hazards (published by Springer) and will be published in 2008. It is proposed that the resources of the Commission will also be transferred to next new commission.
3. IGU Tunis 2008, Tunisia: Hazard and risk commission session held in 12-15 Aug.2008
Session 1:
S.M.Govoruchko(Russia):Environmental consequences of natural hazards
Mona A.El-kayali(Egypt): Flash floods in the mountainous areas of Egypt and their hazard
Amal ismail Shawer(Egypt): A proposal towards defining the discharge cycle of the Nile floods in Egypt
Amas Luliana(Romania): Flood risks perception in the Danube delta
Session 2:
Nikolay N.Komedchikov(Russia): Atlases of natural and technological hazards and risks of emergencies in the territory of the Russian Federation as information basis for risk control
S.B.Bai(China):Area scale Land slide hazard assessment using logistic regression: a case study in Bailongjiang river basin in China
R.Jaganathan(India):Hazard mapping and vulnerability analysis in northern coastal Tamil Nadu, India: a geoinformatics approach
Session3:
Sunyoung Kim(Korea): The change of Asian Dust and its controlling factors in Korea
Mahmood Allaei Taleghami(Iran): Gully as an environmental risk in Iran
F.A.Abouraddy(Egypt): Assessment of potential hazard of the wind process and its environmental effects in the western zahrez basin, Algeria with GIS
Bouhadad Youcef(Algeria): Earthquake hazards in mountainous areas: examples from Algeria
The new 2008-2012 Commission use geographic networks to assemble natural hazard information data, improve research programmes for strengthening regional disaster prevention and mitigation. The Commission needs a round table bringing together human and physical geography aspects to discuss capacity building activities regarding natural hazard mitigation and management.
4. Hazard and Risk Commission 2008-2012
There are five main areas of endeavour for the 2008-2012 Commission, including
· To work to improve links with related agencies working in geographical approach for hazard and risk. The Commission will promote further collective engagement in research projects with these organizations. The aim is to research and publish from geographical approach for hazard and risk for mitigation such as GIS technology and landscape studies.
· To work to involve young researchers in Geography. Given the discussion networking each region in the Commission, we have close links to the several international disaster prevention associations.
· The 2008-2012 will work with the IGU Task Force on the risk management theory to develop a sustainable organisation to support this key endeavour for the future of the discipline. We have found it useful to have the taskforce linked to the Commission through Juergen Weichselgartner, Senior Science Coordinator of LOICZ.
The aim is to promote round tables for discussions on risk management and to contribute to social interchange, in particular
· To extend the work on the role of geography in for living with natural disaster. This process will begin with a contribution to the workshop in Tunis, will proceed with the registration of the statement on the UN website, and the distribution of the statement to all national communities represented in the IGU. The Commission will survey uptake of the concepts on sustainable development in curriculum materials, and promote the ideas in working conferences of the Commission.
· To development of statistical approaches to evaluate regional risks from the knowledge of atmosphere-related and lithosphere-related hazards statistics.
· To collect the issue for desertification and to development of solution method against desertification.
· To promote research themes in regional meetings on hazard and risk. The Commission has offers of tentative conferences as follows:
1) The first world landslide forum, UNU,Tokyo,Japan,Nov.18-21,2008
2) 29-31 March 2009, Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan: International symposium for hazard and risk jointed with Japan Geographical Union (Association) conference:
North River and natural hazard: permanent freeze soil melting and flood, Amur River: flood buffer zone and land use change effective for flood mitigation? Lena River: Melting the soil and changing the river features, Hokkaido: changing the land use by human activities and river management.
Excursion ; Tokyo and disaster prevention works(1days)
Local Organizer: Shigeko Haruyama and Teruko Sato
Other Tentative plan
3) Summer in 2009, International workshop jointed with Japan Geographical Union (Association): Tropical river and natural hazard: Monsoon seasonal change and flooding, Mekong river: flood and living water in human dimension.
Local organizer; Shigeko Haruyama and Charlchai Tanavud
4) 12-16 July, 2010 IGU regional conference, Tel Aviv, Israel
5) 28-30 September, 2011 IGU regional conference, La Serena, Chile
Local organizer: Enrique Novoa-Jerez
6) 26-30 Aug., 2012 IGU Congress Cologne, Germany
Local organizer: Victor G. Jetten( ITC) ,Juergen Weichselgartner(German)