Elizabeth Vanacore
2022-07-08 18:14:24
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite contributions to our AGU Session: NH009 - Geohazards and Society: Striving Towards Improved Natural Hazard Resilience for All. The AGU meeting this year will take place in Chicago and online on December 12-16. Abstracts are due on August 3rd. Please see the session description below for details. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to any of the conveners.
Session Description NH009 - Geohazards and Society: Striving Towards Improved Natural Hazard Resilience for All
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/prelim.cgi/Session/159054
Geological hazards (or geohazards) are the product of natural, active geologic processes which may be dangerous to people or infrastructure (e.g volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods).
Moreover, geohazards such as climate change, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and tsunamis do not impact communities equally. Socio-economic factors often impact a community's ability to prepare and respond to natural hazards at a local, state, federal, and international level. The impact of natural hazards on communities is influenced by the interaction of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, as well as socio-economic barriers. These factors can increase exposure and vulnerability while limiting capacity building, creating an inequitable ability to prepare, respond, and recover from the impacts of natural hazards between communities. Effectively, addressing these inequities requires cooperation between all stakeholders in natural hazard mitigation and preparedness including hazard scientists, social scientists, emergency managers, government, and most importantly the communities themselves.
This multidisciplinary session invites all stakeholders in natural hazards to engage and address issues of equity in hazard management. Topics can include challenges and capacities of vulnerable groups in disaster readiness, factors that impact community response to natural hazards, case studies for improving community preparedness and natural disaster response, and preparing communities for climate change, amongst others.
This session is organized by the American Geophysics Union (AGU), Hazards Equity Working Group (HEWG).
Cheers,
Liz Vanacore
Felix Kwabena Donkor
Wendy Bohon
Nicole D Jackson
Tiegan E Hobbs
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Dr. Elizabeth A. Vanacore
Associate Research Professor
University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
Department of Geology
Puerto Rico Seismic Network
elizabeth.vanacore<at>upr.edu
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We would like to invite contributions to our AGU Session: NH009 - Geohazards and Society: Striving Towards Improved Natural Hazard Resilience for All. The AGU meeting this year will take place in Chicago and online on December 12-16. Abstracts are due on August 3rd. Please see the session description below for details. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to any of the conveners.
Session Description NH009 - Geohazards and Society: Striving Towards Improved Natural Hazard Resilience for All
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/prelim.cgi/Session/159054
Geological hazards (or geohazards) are the product of natural, active geologic processes which may be dangerous to people or infrastructure (e.g volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods).
Moreover, geohazards such as climate change, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and tsunamis do not impact communities equally. Socio-economic factors often impact a community's ability to prepare and respond to natural hazards at a local, state, federal, and international level. The impact of natural hazards on communities is influenced by the interaction of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, as well as socio-economic barriers. These factors can increase exposure and vulnerability while limiting capacity building, creating an inequitable ability to prepare, respond, and recover from the impacts of natural hazards between communities. Effectively, addressing these inequities requires cooperation between all stakeholders in natural hazard mitigation and preparedness including hazard scientists, social scientists, emergency managers, government, and most importantly the communities themselves.
This multidisciplinary session invites all stakeholders in natural hazards to engage and address issues of equity in hazard management. Topics can include challenges and capacities of vulnerable groups in disaster readiness, factors that impact community response to natural hazards, case studies for improving community preparedness and natural disaster response, and preparing communities for climate change, amongst others.
This session is organized by the American Geophysics Union (AGU), Hazards Equity Working Group (HEWG).
Cheers,
Liz Vanacore
Felix Kwabena Donkor
Wendy Bohon
Nicole D Jackson
Tiegan E Hobbs
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Dr. Elizabeth A. Vanacore
Associate Research Professor
University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
Department of Geology
Puerto Rico Seismic Network
elizabeth.vanacore<at>upr.edu
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