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Understanding Risk Forum 2016
The 2016 Understanding Risk Forum (UR2016) is the fourth biennial conference of the UR Community. Understanding Risk is a global community of experts and practitioners in the field of disaster risk identification—including risk assessment and risk communication—ranging from representatives of government agencies, multilateral organizations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, academia, community-based organizations, and civil society.
UR2016 will provide a place for showcasing emerging best practices, forming nontraditional partnerships, learning about the field, and advancing innovation to better understanding disaster risk.
The conference aims to convene 800 attendees from the all over the world, with interest, either professionally or personally, in the field of disaster risk identification. UR2016 welcomes representatives from government agencies, multilateral organizations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, academia, community-based organizations, civil society, and the greater community.
Format
The Forum will be structured similarly to past Global Forums: three days will consist of keynote speakers, technical sessions, and opening and closing ceremonies. Two days will provide a place for members of the UR Community to hold meetings or trainings to advance the field of disaster risk identification.
Topics
Plenary topics
- Climate Change
- Gender
Technical session topics
- Assessing infrastructure
- Assessing cultural heritage and schools
- Assessing vulnerable communities
- Behavioral challenges
- Compounding events
- Connections of poverty and risk
- Crowdsourcing
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- El Niño and La Niña
- Future of risk
- Impact-based forecasting
- Insurance and infrastructure
- New innovations in the field
- Open data
- Psychology and risk perception
- Risk communication
- Risk modelling
- Science, technology and Sendai
Contact
If you have any questions or comments about UR2016, please email: info@UR2016venice.com.
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