{"id":15130,"date":"2017-09-26T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/?p=15130"},"modified":"2018-10-15T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:22:04","slug":"11th-joint-international-symposium-on-disaster-risk-management-in-fukuoka-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/11th-joint-international-symposium-on-disaster-risk-management-in-fukuoka-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"11th joint International Symposium on Disaster Risk Management in Fukuoka, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/wfeo_jsce_jfes_aij_banner_homepage.png\" width=\"664\" alt=\"The 11th Joint International Symposium on Disaster Risk Management\" title=\"The 11th Joint International Symposium on Disaster Risk Management\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The joint international symposium on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) was held on September 13, 2017, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kyushu University<\/a>, Fukuoka (Japan) in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsce-int.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aij.or.jp\/aijhome.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfes.or.jp\/_jfes-en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES)<\/a>, and the WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Disaster Risk Management (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/stc_disaster_risk_management\/\" target=\"_blank\">WFEO-CDRM<\/a>), and supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scj.go.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science Council of Japan (SCJ)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium has been annually held since 2009 in order to disseminate the information that <b>the DRM is a key to promote disaster prevention and reduction<\/b>. The symposium attracted approximately 50 participants. Seven guest speakers presented their great expertise and valuable experiences for natural disasters. They were invited from five countries.<\/p>\n<p>Three Japanese professors (Dr. Mazda, Dr. Shimizu, and Dr. Shimatani) reported the situations of severe earthquake &#8211; or water &#8211; related disasters that recently occurred in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The representative of the USA National Member in the WFEO Executive Council Dr. Vilas Mujumdar talked about the framework for resilience and sustainability. Dr. Saber (Egypt) and Dr. Sutcu (Turkey) presented the updated technologies locally developed against disasters. Dr. Lai (Chinese Taipei) showed the hazard mapping for severe landslide disasters.<\/p>\n<p>The audience was interested in their talks and had several questions and comments to the guest speakers. For example, one discussed with Dr. Mazda the broken bridges over highways during Kumamoto Earthquake through specific breaking mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium was successfully ended with greatly valuable talks by the speakers and their constructive discussions with the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The proceedings of the International Symposium are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/stc-disaster_risk\/International_Symposium_Proceedings_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Report by Dr. Nobuaki Kimura, Deputy Secretary of WFEO-CDRM<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1010701.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1010701.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Komatsu\u2019s opening remarks\" title=\"Prof. Komatsu\u2019s opening remarks\" width=\"664\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16862\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height:15px; margin-left:10px; font-size:90%;\">\nProf. Komatsu\u2019s opening remarks\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1010726.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1010726.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Saber\u2019s talk\" title=\"Dr. Saber\u2019s talk\" width=\"664\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16863\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height:15px; margin-left:10px; font-size:90%;\">\nDr. Saber\u2019s talk\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1010733.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1010733.jpg\" alt=\"Guest speakers and organizing committee\u2019s members\" title=\"Guest speakers and organizing committee\u2019s members\" width=\"664\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16864\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height:15px; margin-left:10px; font-size:90%;\">\nGuest speakers and organizing committee\u2019s members\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>For more information:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf-o fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> The International Symposium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/stc-disaster_risk\/International_Symposium_Proceedings_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">proceedings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> WFEO Committee on Disaster Risk Management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/stc_disaster_risk_management\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> Visit the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfes.or.jp\/_jfes-en\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> Visit the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsce-int.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> Visit the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aij.or.jp\/aijhome.htm\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> Visit the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scj.go.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> Visit the Kyushu University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe joint international symposium on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) was held on September 13, 2017, in Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Japan) in collaboration with the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES), and the WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Disaster Risk Management (WFEO-CDRM), and supported by the Science Council of Japan (SCJ).<br \/>\nThe symposium has been annually held since 2009 in order to disseminate the information that the DRM &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[143,144,113,162,95],"class_list":["post-15130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-report","tag-disaster-risk-management","tag-earthquake","tag-goal-11","tag-stc-disaster-risk-management","tag-sdgs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>11th joint International Symposium on Disaster Risk Management in Fukuoka, Japan - WFEO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/11th-joint-international-symposium-on-disaster-risk-management-in-fukuoka-japan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"11th joint International Symposium on Disaster Risk Management in Fukuoka, Japan - WFEO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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