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Risk Analysis 2002

Third International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation

June 19-21, 2002

Sintra, Portugal

Engineering

Host: Hotel Tivoli
Homepage: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2002/risk02/index.html
Email: rgreen@wessex.ac.uk

Organizers: Wessex Institute of Technology, UK

Description:
Risk Analysis 2002 is the third in this popular series on ‘Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation’. Covering a series of important topics, which are of current research interest and have practical applications, the conference is concerned with all aspects of risk analysis and hazard mitigation ranging from specific assessment of risk to mitigation associated with both natural and anthropogenic hazards.

The analysis and management of risk and the mitigation of hazards is essential. We live in an increasingly complex society with the potential for disasters on a world-wide scale. The advances in computational methods and the ability to model systems more precisely now enable hazards to be quantified, their effects to be simulated and risk analysis to be pursued with greater accuracy, providing far more effective risk management. These developments are not only important for all areas of human endeavour, but have particular relevance to environmental issues where the risks involved are increasingly seen as substantial. Effective risk management and the mitigation of possible hazards have become a high priority of government concern.

Risk 2002 follows on from the other successful meetings in this series, which first started in Valencia, Spain (1998) and continued in Bologna, Italy (2000).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Engineers and Managers involved in the development of simulated risk analysis as well as researchers in academia and industry who are concerned with these problems. The meeting acts as an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of problems of common interest.

TOPICS

Hazard prevention, management & control Estimation of risks Emergency response Data collection & analysis Hazardous materials in transit Water resources modelling & management Landslides Earthquakes Soil & water contamination Air quality studies Damage remediation Risk associated with Brownfield Developments Waste disposal risk Floods & droughts Coastal & sea pollution, including oil spills Case studies

Mail Address:

Rachel Green
Conference Secretariat
RISK ANALYSIS 2002
Wessex Institute of Technology
Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst
Southampton, SO40 7AA
Telephone: 44 (0) 238 029 3223
Fax: 44 (0) 238 029 2853

Submitted by: Samantha Mort
Date received: November 27, 2001, revised February 04, 2002


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