A Conference on Building Resilience
Post-Disaster Recovery in International Perspective
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Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
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Lunch in the Morgan Café * |
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11:30 am – 1:00 pm |
Welcome by Daniel Aldrich, conference organizer; speakers include: J. Eric Dietz, Director of the Purdue Homeland Security Institute and Associate Professor, Computer and Information Technology Matthew Huber, Associate Professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and founding member of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center Ayhan Irfanoglu, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Operations Center (NEEScomm) at Purdue University |
Public Conference |
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1:00 pm |
Opening remarks |
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1:15 – 2:15 pm |
Panel: Crisis and Recovery
Lessons from the 1995 Kobe Earthquake Recovery Project Beyond the Tsunami: Overview of the Social Impacts of the Relief and Rehabilitation Effort in the State of Tamil Nadu, India Rebuilding from World War II: Cross-National Evidence |
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2:15 – 2:45 pm |
Panel Discussion |
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2:45 pm |
Coffee break |
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3:00 – 4:30 pm |
Panel: Policy Recommendations for Decision Makers How do households cope with natural and human-made disasters? Empirical Evidence of Social Capital's Role in Disaster Rebuilding Community in N State University |
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4:00 – 4:45 pm |
Panel Discussion |
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5:00 – 6:00 pm |
Reception and Poster session: |
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Sponsored by the Center for Global Partnership and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center in partnership with the Discovery Park Office of Engagement, the Department of Political Science, and the Purdue Homeland Security Institute. |
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For more information about Purdue's current research in the area of disaster resilience, please send an email to pccrc@purdue.edu. |
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Contact Information
Purdue University
PCCRC
203 S. Martin Jischke Drive
MANN 105
West Lafayette, IN 47907
- Phone: 765-494-5146
- Fax: 765-496-9322