UR2016 – List of topics

Plenary topics

• Climate Change
  • Asking the hard questions: The impact of climate change on our decisions
• Gender
  • Resilience Dialogue – Technology, Disaster Risk, and the Gender Divide

Technical session topics

Please note, the items in blue include the final session title and abstract on the topic listed below.

• Assessing infrastructure
  • Check the vitals: Making infrastructure more resilient
• Assessing vulnerable communities
  • Putting people first: Practices, challenges and innovations in characterizing and mapping social groups
• Behavioral challenges
  • “I Understand Risk, You Misunderstand Risk, S/He Fails to Act”: Learning to anticipate behavioral challenges in pre-disaster decision making
• Compounding events
  • The domino effect: The future of quantifying compounding events in deltas
• Connections of poverty and risk
  • How risks and shocks impact poverty and why, when, and where can better financial protection help
• Crowdsourcing
  • Bridging The Divide: Digital Humanitarians and the Nepal Earthquake
• Decision-making under uncertainty
  • When uncertainty is certain: Tools for improved decision making for weather and climate
• Economics of risk
  • Climate extremes and economic derail: Impacts of extreme weather and climate related events on regional and national economies
• El Niño and La Niña
  • Map Slam: Revealing the common misperceptions about El Niño and La Niña
• Future of risk
  • Building a less risky future: How today’s decisions shape disaster risk in the cities of tomorrow
• Impact-based forecasting
  • The final mile: Connecting an impact-based warning service to decision making
• Insurance and infrastructure
  • Reinforcing foundations: The role of the insurance industry in critical infrastructure
• Multi-hazard risk models
  • Challenges in developing multi-hazard risk models from local to global scale
• New innovations in the field
  • Disruptors: Cutting edge technologies that are changing the way we understand risk
• Open data
  • Breaking barriers: Open data and shared risk analysis in support of multilateral action
• Risk communication
  • Communicating for action: What works?
• Risk modelling
  • Reading the tea leaves: When risk models fail to predict disaster impacts
• Safer schools
  • Global school safety: Reaching for scale through innovation
• Science, technology and Sendai
  • Understanding risk is essential for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 – Targeting the future with science and technology