Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service of IKCEST undertake the “Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service” workshop of International Conference on Silk-roads Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development

“Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service” workshop, the session 22 of the International Conference on Silk Roads Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development (ICSRRSD 2019), will be held at China National Convention Centre, Beijing, China on the morning of May 12, 2019.

1. Theme and Topics:

Theme:

Frequent disasters have been a serious threat to human life and social development. Disaster prevention, disaster reduction and disaster relief are eternal subjects for human survival and development. It is imperative to build the global disaster database, and the reasonable and effective metadata standard or best practice is the premise for disaster database construction. This workshop will invite domestic and international experts in disaster risk reduction related fields, to discuss the issues about but not limited to metadata standard and best practice, data sharing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big data application, regional and national experiments for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).

Topics:

• Disaster data sharing
• Knowledge service application of DRR, including climate risks in travels
• Knowledge service platform of DRR
• Application of AI and Big data in DRR

2. Milestone

• July 30, 2018 First announcement
• August 10, 2018 Abstract submission
• October 10, 2018 Second announcement
• October 20, 2018 On-line registration start
• December 20, 2018 Deadline for extended abstract submission
• April 20, 2019 Deadline for early bird registration
• May 10-12, 2019 seminars Conference and academic communication

3. Venue

Beijing International Convention Center

Address: No.8 Beichen Dong Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing P. R. China 10010

4. Call for Extended Abstracts

We are pleased to invite you to be part of the International Conference on Silk-roads Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development (SiDRR conference) 2019 by presenting your relevant work related to all disciplines relevant to disasters, by submitting a two-page extended abstract of the respective presentation (Times New Roman 12 point font only). All submissions (extended abstract and the respective presentation) will be compiled and made available to attending participants.

Extended abstracts should be submitted through the conference website (http://www.sidrr.com/) or via conference email (sidrr@imde.ac.cn), before December 20, 2018. Authors will be notified of all abstract/paper acceptances no later than January 30, 2019. Note that the extended abstract submitted to SiDRR conference 2019 will only be accepted after a rigorous peer-review process. Some of the selected extended abstracts will be encouraged to expand their contribution into a journal paper and with a recommendation for submission to international refereed journals.

5. Organizers

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR, CAS) International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology under the Auspices of UNESCO (IKCEST)

6. Conveners and Contact

Conveners：

Prof. Juanle Wang, vice director of Department for Geo-data Science and Sharing, IGSNRR, CAS, and executive director of the Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service of IKCEST

Prof. Elena Grigorieva, Leading Researcher, Laboratory of regional social-economic systems, Institute for Complex Analysis of Regional Problems, Far-Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (ICARP FEB RAS)

Contact person:

Ms. Yuelei Yuan: yuanyl@lreis.ac.cn

7. Website:

Conference Website：http://www.sidrr.com/

Provided by the IKCEST Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System