Project Events

Major scientific and outreach events of the ENHANS project will be

  1. Symposium "Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk in Latin America and the Caribbean" and associated events at the Joint Meeting of Americas (9-11 August 2010, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil);
  2. Mini-symposium "Natural Hazards and Climate Changes" at the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (1 November 2010, Cairo, Egypt);
  3. Symposium "Extreme Natural Events: Modeling, Prediction and Mitigation" at the AGU Fall meeting (12-17 December 2010, San Francisco, USA)
  4. Workshop "Extreme Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk in Africa" (17-20 January 2011, Pretoria, South Africa);
  5. Mini-symposium "Natural Hazards and Disaster Risks in the Middle East Region" at the conference "GeoInformation for Disaster Management" (3-8 May 2011, Antalya, Turkey);
  6. Symposium "Grand Challenges in Natural Hazards Research and Risk Analysis" and the Open Forum on Natural Hazards at the XXV IUGG General Assembly (29 June – 2 July 2011, Melbourne, Australia).
  7. Advanced School "Understanding and Prediction of Earthquakes and other Extreme Events in Complex Systems" at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (26 September – 8 October 2011, Trieste, Italy)
  8. Union sessions "Predicting Extreme Events in Natural and Socio-Economic Systems: State-of-the-Art and Emerging Possibilities" and Natural Hazards session "Great Disasters of the XXI Century: the Lessons We Learned" at the AGU Fall Meeting (5-6 December 2011, San Francisco, USA)