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Lifeline Connections for Resilience
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The 9th CRHNet Symposium explores the power, diversity, complexity and necessity of relationships and partnerships as a foundation of community resilience. The symposium promotes CRHNet's values - recognizing the importance of social and physical networks and interconnectivity across all sectors.
Call for Thematic Sessions (Closed)
CRHNet 2012 invites proposals for special sessions and for sponsorship opportunities to address the Symposium's theme of strengthening "Lifeline Connections for Resilience", and proposals for general sessions in disaster risk reduction. We encourage proposals for sessions that address:
Lifeline Resilience
Gateway resilience and security (international and national)
Supply chain robustness and resilience
Sustainability and resilience of transportation and transmission systems
Critical infrastructure strength
Lifeline Connections
Interdependency: physical and social (personal and corporate relationships / networks)
Urban and rural community resilience as critical lifeline nodes
Scalability: biggest to smallest distribution and receiving points
Communication systems: methods and significance (includes social media)
General sessions reflecting risk and hazard themes in:
- Health sciences or services: includes the psychosocial dimensions of mitigation, emergency
management, and pandemic management
- Natural sciences: includes risk assessment and risk modeling methods, and risk mitigation
strategies
- Social sciences and services: includes government and governance, strategic and land-use
planning, public participation, psychosocial considerations, and community resiliency strategies.
- Industry and commerce: includes industrial resilience, enterprise risk management, risk and
insurance management, business continuity and security.
Proceedings
Digital records of accepted papers and presentations will be shared with participants
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