Building resilient communities through urban planning and the integration of Natural Sciences

Program

All presentations are available on the UNECE website

08:45 - 09:15	Registration
09:15 - 09:30	Welcome notes Prof. Jérôme Lacour, Dean of Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva
09:30 - 09:40	Introduction and workshop objectives Prof. Costanza Bonadonna, Director, CERG-C, University of Geneva
	Presentations
09:40 - 11:10	Seismic hazards in urban areas Earthquake hazard and risk in urban areas - Prof. Donat Fäh, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Disaster as a window of opportunity? Planning and planners in the reconstruction of Kalamata city, Greece, after the 1986 earthquakes - Dr. Miranda Dandoulaki, National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government, Greece Climate change Climate change and cities - Prof. Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland Information and mapping for making good decisions in the planning process: Sweden/City of Karlstad - Ms. Anna Sjödin. UNISDR UPAG, Sweden Multi-hazards Risk Changes: Spatial Decision Support System for the analysis of changing multi-hazard risk - Prof. Cees Van Westen, ITC, Netherlands Complex disasters challenging cities' development - Prof. Adriana Galderisi, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
11:30 – 12:00	Impact assessment: Systemic analysis of territories for global impact assessment - Mr. Eric Leroi, URBATER, France Impact assessment to support more resilient, recovery and enhanced risk mitigation strategies - Prof. Scira Menoni, Politecnico de Milano, CERG-C, Italy
12:00 - 12:30	Human Induced Hazards: Convention on Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents - Mr. Nikolay Savov, UNECE, Switzerland Spatial planning: An integrated and coordinated approach - Mr. Louis Gatt, Personal Secretary Parliamentary Secretariat for Planning and Simplification of Administrative Processes, Government of Malta
13:30 – 13:50	Global Human Settlement information to support Disaster Risk Reduction - Dr. Daniele Ehrlich, JRC - European Commission UNECE Policy Study on Urban Planning – Mr. Michele Melchiorri and Mr. Noel Sampson, UNECE secretariat
13:50 –14:00	Instructions and organization for break-out sessions Prof. Costanza Bonadonna, Director, CERG-C, University of Geneva
14:00 – 16:00	Break-out sessions Participants are divided into groups to discuss the specific objectives of the workshop: 1. To identify main impacts of natural and human-induced hazards on cities and human settlements 2. To determine the type of hazard and vulnerability data and evaluation required by policy makers for a comprehensive and risk-sensitive urban planning 3. To identify the main challenges associated with the integration of hazard and vulnerability data within risk-sensitive urban planning
16:30 – 17:30	Plenary: Presentations of each group results