Based on experience from the Great East-Japan
Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, the aim of this public symposium held
on the 28th July in UCL was to discuss how to build safety systems
and resilience against future disasters in the region.
Scientific
views of, and human problems after the disaster were discussed with talks
given by representatives of academia, industry and Japanese local
government. The symposium keynote lecture was delivered by Prof.
Peter Sammonds (Director, UCL Institute for Risk
and Disaster Reduction). Other speakers included two PhD students
from the IRDR, Serena Tagliacozzo and Omar Velazquez Ortiz, who spoke about
their experiences visiting the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant and the
communications during and after the disaster.
Dr Ilan Kelman also spoke about maternal psychological heath following
the disaster. More information about their visit to Japan can be found on the
IRDR blog.
Dr Ryo Torii (Mechanical Engineering) has written a summery of the Symposium for the UCL Blog.
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