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Conference on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities '12

We are pleased to announce that the Conference on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities '12 will be held on July 7 (Sat.), 2012, 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 cooperation among the researchers.

1. Dates:

Draft paper submission May 7 (Mon.) 　⇒ Closed.
＊the deadline for "Report" has been extended up to May 31, 2012.
Final paper submission June 8 (Fri.)
Conference July 7 (Sat.)

2. Call for Papers:

You are invited to submit "peer review paper" or "report (non reviewed)" to be presented at the conference. Authors are required to submit the PDF file of the full paper (4-8 even pages) until May 7 (Mon.) using the template shown below. Submitted papers will undergo the peer review. 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. Non-reviewed reports will be checked their themes and formats. Authors of accepted papers incorporate changes suggested by the reviewers and return the manuscript to the editor by June 8(Fri.).

Template files: WORD(WORDダウンロード)  PDF(PDFダウンロード)  

Download the journal papers application sheet, fill in the necessary items and submit it with the manuscript.

Application sheet: WORD(WORDダウンロード)  

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:

Hito Machi Koryu-kan Kyoto (Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto)
http://www.hitomachi-kyoto.jp/

5. Official Language:

Japanese
(Most of the papers will be presented in Japanese and no translation available.)

　　　　　　　　

6. Registration fee:

FREE

7. Program:

The program will be informed on this web-page.(Japanese only)
The presentation time will be about 10 minutes.

　　　　　　　　

8. 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-(0)77-561-5083
FAX: +81-(0)77-561-3418
e-mail: heritage_at_st.ritsumei.ac.jp (Please replace_at_with ＠)