The special theme of the conference is “Analysis and Governance of Risks beyond Boundaries”
- to emphasize that risks are able to travel through the virtual boundaries labeled as “regions”, “territories” and “countries”,
- to promote recent scientific novelties in risk reduction and
- to enhance inter-disciplinary approaches to develop new strategies in both evaluating and coping with well-known and less-known risks.
The special topics for the conference 2014 are:
- Risk analysis and governance of major risks and catastrophic events
- Risk perception at individual and institutional level
- Risk communication and participation
- International and cross-border collaborations in risk reduction
- Anthropogenic risks
- Safety and security issues
- Evaluation of technological disasters triggered by natural hazards
- Economic loss estimation and insurance
- Risks on public health and food security
- Outcomes of policies, regulations and governance of risks
- Uncertainty and complexity of risks
- New paradigms in risk assessment and risk reduction
