Concurrent
Talks and poster session.
Risk-based land-use decision support for risk reduction
Co-chairs: Murray Journeay1, Laurie Pearce2 and Bert Struik3
Considerable recent advances been made in understanding how risk-based land-use decisions can reduce disaster risk. This understanding comes from research and operational experience, driven in large part by extraordinary losses from recent catastrophic events. Land-use decision support has benefited from new knowledge about capacity and knowledge sharing, hazard risk assessment, mitigation cost-benefit analysis, strategic futures analysis, consequence visualization, and information sharing and management. This session is motivated by our desire to generate a constructive discussion on the value and nature of risk-based land-use decision support. The session will be an ideal forum to present your experiences, problems and studies in any aspect of disaster risk reduction though land-use decisions. We particularly welcome studies that evaluate the role and capability of understanding hazard risk, and its effective and simple application in land-zoning, development-permitting, and strategic-planning for building community sustainability and resilience.
[optional statement of sponsorship]
Sponsor: Natural Resources Canada
or
Cosponsors: Natural Resources Canada, Justice Institute of BC, Simon Fraser University, and Canadian Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
1. Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
2. Pearces 2 Consulting, North Vancouver, B.C. Canada
3. Earth Sciences Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. |
