The 6th International Seminar of Committee of Infrastructure Planning and Management, JSCE in FY2015
2015年度土木計画学研究委員会 第6回国際セミナー（通算 第115回国際セミナー）

The 8th Japan-China Joint Seminar on Sustainable Management of Cities and Regions under Disaster and Environmental Risks

Date: August 22-24, 2015 9:00-18:00
Venue: Kusunoki Kaikan Hall, Kurokami Campus, Kumamoto University

BACKGROUND AND SCOPE
Fulfilling energy demands is an inevitable issue in cities and regions all over the world. It is essential to establish a proper system to manage and govern limited enery resources to achieve sustainable society. However, cities and regions are threaten by environmental and disastrous risks that will disrupt economic and social activities in cases. It is a critical issue to establish robust and resilient society against such risks. Against such a background, the seminar aims to deepen an understanding of urban and regional management schemes and policies that enable us to live in cities and regions with limited resources threaten by environmental and disastrous risks. Such schemes and policies are applicable (in cases, exchangeable) among cities and regions. In this sense, the seminar provides an opportunity to exchange opinions on schemes or policies to sustain cities and regions in different social and cultural context.

OBJECTIVES
Key objectives of the seminar are:
? To discuss sustainable cities and regions threaten by disaster/environmental risks
? To discuss sustainable management of basic human needs, such as water, foods and energy
? To broad a network among sustainable cities and regions all over the world
Topics of interest in the seminar includes
1. Methodologies for disaster/environmental risk analysis and management
2. Methodologies for modeling of social vulnerability, including social, human and production capital
3. Policy analysis of disaster and environmental risk management
4. Methodologies for community-based disaster and environmental risk management
5. Methodologies for dealing with critical infrastructure against disaster/environmental risks
6. Infrastructural planning and management for sustainable management of cities and regions
7. Methodologies for flood risk management
8. Other issues related with the seminar theme

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
Prof. Norio OKADA (Kwansai Gakuin University)
Prof. Asao ANDO (Tohoku University)

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE CONFERENCE?
We are pleased to welcome all researches, practitioners and students interested in the above objectives.
LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

ORGANISING BODIES
The Implementation Research and Education System Center for Reducing Disaster Risk (IRESC), Kumamoto University