International conference on The Demography of Disasters: Implications for future policy on development and resilience

Date: 18 - 20 September 2013
Venue: Common Room, University House, Australian National University

As natural disasters impact inequitably on vulnerable populations around the world, disaster preparedness, recovery and reconstruction is increasingly being approached through the lens of integrated public policies on development, demographics, and disaster risk reduction. How the cross-cultural context influences disaster risk governance, and how new communities and families arise from the destruction will form the core dialogue for the papers from renowned international experts being presented at this conference.

Conference aims

Speakers

Major speakers will include:

Professor Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duke University, North Carolina
Professor Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina
Professor Mark Pelling, King's College, London
Professor Douglas Paton, University of Tasmania
Professor Josifina Natividad, University of The Philippines
Professor Yang Chenggang, Population Research Institute, Chengdu, China
Professor Ken Miichi, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan.

Program, abstracts & biographies

Program (PDF 680KB)

Abstracts of papers (PDF 195KB)

Speaker biographies (PDF 52KB)

Conference Presentations

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Registration

Registration is now closed.

Registration fees (including GST)

Type of registration	Registration
General registration	$195
ANU staff	$50
Students, unsalaried & retired	$20
- Conference dinner	$30

Registration fee includes:

Conference welcome reception at University House on Wednesday18 September
Morning and afternoon teas
Lunches

Accomomodation

Links to accommodation on campus and close to the ANU.

Acknowledgement

The conference is being convened in conjunction with the ARC funded discovery project on The Demography of Asian Disasters: Family Dynamics, Social Capital and Migration Patterns.