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Conference on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities '10

July 3 (Sat.) 2010
at Igakukan, Ritsumeikan Univ., Kyoto, JAPAN

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   We are pleased to announce that the Conference on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities '10 will be held on July 3 (Sat.), 2010, in Kyoto, Japan. The role of cultural heritage is immeasurably important in human lives and societies. However, invaluable treasures have been damaged or lost due to natural disasters such as earthquakes and associated fires, floods, ground deformations, etc. Unhappily, there are very few studies and countermeasures focused on disaster prevention for historical cities, although scientists and engineers have systematically developed tools to preserve lives, cities, buildings and individual facilities from often inevitable natural, hazardous phenomena.

   The purpose of the conference is to bring together the recent activities and results relevant to the urban cultural heritage disaster mitigation, and discuss the future cooperations among the researchers. The peer reviewed papers will be presented at the conference. This is the capstone activity of our project.

1. Important dates:
   Draft paper submission    April 30 (Fri.)
   Final paper submission    June 4 (Fri.)
   Conference    July 3 (Sat.)

2. Call for Papers:
   You are invited to submit papers for peer review to be presented at the conference. Authors are required to submit the PDF file of the full paper (4-8 pages) until April 30 (Fri.) using the template shown below. Submitted papers are then sent to two reviewers. The reviewers give a recommendation to accept, accept with revisions, or reject. Based on the reviews, the editor notifies the author of acceptance or rejection and forwards to the author the anonymous comments of the reviewers. Authors of accepted papers incorporate changes suggested by the reviewers and return the manuscript to the editor by June 4(Fri.).
   
   Template files:
                         MS Word　　 PDF
   

3. Conference topics:
   Papers focusing on the following topics are invited for presentation in the conference.
   
   • Assessing the Values of Cultural Properties and their Vulnerabilities (Cultural Heritage and Vulnerability)
   • Traditional Procedures for Mitigating Disasters (Historical Disasters)
   • Disaster Mitigation Technologies for Preserving Cultural Values (Disaster Mitigation Technologies)
   • Comprehensive Planning for Disaster Mitigation, Emphasizing Cultural Heritage (Disaster Mitigation Planning and Policy)

4. Venue:
   Igakukan, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan Univ.
   56-1 Toji-in Kitamachi, Kita-ku,
   Kyoto 603-8577 JAPAN
   Access Map (Building No.4)

5. Registration fee:
   FREE

6. Program: The program will be informed on this web-page.
   The presentation time will be about 10 minutes.

7. Contact address:
   G-COE office,
   Research Center for Disaster Mitigation Systems,
   Ritsumeikan University
   1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577 JAPAN
   TEL: (+81) 77-561-5083
   FAX: (+81) 77-561-3418
   e-mail: heritage@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

Kyoto History Disaster Society

Workshop is held by "Kyoto History Disaster Society" every four months.
Schedule is available here.

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