Notice
- All the presentations & papers will be in English.
- We suggest that oral presenters can bring their laptop computer for the presentation.
- Each poster will be allocated a 170 cm height x 110 cm width board, and the poster must fit within this area.
Conference Objectives
- Provide a platform to discuss issues, challenges and solutions to address climate change, disaster management and environmental sustainability.
- Create an avenue for presenting the research works and sharing knowledge on current trends, risks and impacts of climate change, disasters and other environmental problems.
- Engage multi-stakeholders including researchers, policy makers, practitioners, private sector and community representatives towards a livable, resilient and sustainable community, region and globe.
- Offer a platform for invaluable networking opportunity among all the delegates and participants.
Call for Paper
The world is experiencing an increasing level of risk and impact of climatic change and disasters. It is crucial to understand the relationship between climate change, extreme weather events and disasters, the impacts of such events, and the strategies to reduce climate and disaster risks as well as the potential for integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Therefore, the Center for Water Cycle, Marine Environment and Disaster Management (CWMD) initiates to organize this conference which aspires to address such issues for better understanding and solutions that can benefit the people and society across the world.
The Conference welcomes any papers including but not limited to the following themes/topics:
- Climate Change – sciences, cause & effect, impacts, vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation
- Natural and human made hazard & disasters; risk & vulnerability assessment
- Extreme weather, climate and hydrological events; rapid and slow onset events
- Disaster prevention and mitigation; mitigating hazards, droughts and floods
- Disaster risk reduction; early warning; emergency responses
- Linking climate change, disaster management & sustainable development
- Land use planning; urban and regional design; infrastructure & reconstruction
- Land use & transport interaction; transportation management; sustainable transportation
- Transportation policy; travel demand modelling; travel behavior analysis; evacuation behavior
- Environmental problems including marine ecosystems; environmental sustainability; low carbon economy
- Environmental assessment by bio-monitoring; sustainable use of marine bio-resource
- Innovation and sustainable utilization of seaweeds in aquaculture
- Chemistry and microbiology related to environmental issues
- Water resource management; reservation of ecosystem
- Water pollution, water treatment & strategy for mitigation
- Disasters/extreme environmental changes on coastal ecosystems (tidal flats, salt marsh, & mangrove forests)
- Problem solving methods, tools, modelling and analysis
- Local & traditional knowledge; building resilience
- Community & stakeholders’ participation; education and awareness
- Sharing lessons learnt, best practices & case studies
- Climate and disaster responses, governance & decision making process
- Local, national & international - policy efforts, agreement, framework & implementation
- Resilient and sustainable society & development;
Important Dates
- Deadline for Abstract Submission
April 30, 2019May 10, 2019 (extended)
- Notification of Acceptance / Rejection
- Within 2 weeks after abstract submission
- Deadline for Early Bird Registration
- May 31, 2019
- Deadline for Full Paper Submission
- May 31, 2019
- Deadline for Revised paper Submission
- Jul 31, 2019
- Deadline for Registration & Payment
- August 10, 2019
- Pre-registration
- September 18, 2019
- Conference Date
- September 19-20, 2019
- Excursion
- September 21, 2019
Registration Fee
| Type of Registration | Early Bird Fee (till May 31, 2019) |
Normal Fee |
|---|---|---|
| All Presenters except students (Oral & Poster) |
12,000 JPY | 15,000 JPY |
| Presenters - Students | 6,000 JPY | 7,500 JPY |
| Additional paper | 6,000 JPY | 7,500 JPY |
| Participants (without paper presentation) |
6,000 JPY | 7,500 JPY |
| Excursion | 5,000 JPY | 5,000 JPY |
Submission & Proceedings
All the authors are invited to submit abstract limited to 400 words. The notification (acceptance/rejection) will be informed within 2 weeks after the abstract submission.
After the acceptance of abstracts, authors are required to submit full papers which will be reviewed and published in ISBN proceedings.
Full paper ー 4 to 10 pages; Times New Roman with Single Space.
The final manuscript must be a PDF file with the file size less than 2MB.
No-Show Policy
At least one author or co-author should attend and present the paper (accepted) at the conference. Any paper that is notpresented (oral/poster) at the conference will not be published on the Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Climate Change, Disaster Management and Environmental Sustainability by Kumamoto University.