13th Annual NCSE Conference: Disasters and Environment: Science, Preparedness, and Resilience Confer
The 13th Annual Disasters and Environment Conference, hosted by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), will take place January 15-17, 2013, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.
The conference is organized around six key themes: • cascading disasters; • the intersection of the built and natural environments; • disasters as mechanisms of ecosystem change; • rethinking recovery and expanding the vision of mitigation; • human behavior and its consequences; and, • "no regrets" resilience.
These themes will be addressed in eight plenary sessions, ten keynote addresses, 23 breakout workshops, and 24 symposia.
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