APRU Multi-Hazards 2022

Official page for the 17th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2022 hosted by Chula Engineering and co-host

18/05/2023

The 8th APRU MH Summer School will be held on 24-27 July at Tohoku University. This year's focus is 'Tackling various hazard risks'.

Graduate students and young researchers interested in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and management are welcome to join this event.

For more information please visit here >>> https://www.apru.org/event/apru-irides-multi-hazards-summer-school-2023/

09/05/2023

The 17th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2022 Book of Abstracts is now available. You can download it here >>> https://apru2022.eng.chula.ac.th/?page_id=878

28/11/2022

Countdown 1 day to the APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 🎉

The event day is coming! We warmly welcome everyone to join our symposium program tomorrow. For the first day, it starts with the opening ceremony then the speech presented by our keynote speakers (Prof. Dr. Fumihiko Imamura, Dr. Bhichit Rattakul, Dr. Sanjay Srivastava and Dr. Aaron Opdyke) in the morning session and followed by the attendee presentation in the whole afternoon. The second day is opened by our keynote presentation (Prof. Dr. Harold Yih-Chi Tan, Mr. Atiq Ahmed, Asst. Prof. Supattra Visessri, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tavida Kamolvej and Dr. Constance Chua) then the last presentation session given by attendee parallel with the poster presentation. After that, all of you will enjoy the campus tour at Chulalongkorn University in the afternoon and dinner time on Meridian Cruise at Icon Siam. 🙂

Let’s have a nice experience together. See you tomorrow !!

27/11/2022

The APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 – 2 Days to go 🎉

Are you ready for the event ?! We would like to conclude the topics that our keynote speakers present during 29th - 30th Nov:

-Prof. Dr. Fumihiko Imamura, the Director of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University, Japan.
Title: the Challenging for Resilient Society Overcoming Disaster and Risk in the Future

-Dr. Bhichit Rattakul, the Chairman of Thai Network for Disaster Resilience (TNDR)
Title: The Role of an Academia in Disaster Resilience

-Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, the Chief for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNESCAP
Title: Managing Complex, Compound and Cascading Risk: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Actions in Asia and the Pacific

-Dr. Aaron Opdyke, the Director of Research Training, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney
Title: Participatory Technologies as a Catalyst to Reduce Disaster Risk

-Prof. Dr. Harold Yih-Chi Tan, the Director of Weather Climate Disaster Research Center.
Title: The Climate Change Impacted on Zhengzhou’s Flooding in China, 2021

-Mr. Atiq Ahmed, the Senior Programme Manager of Climate Resilience Department from Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
Title: Integrating Multiple Domains of Science, Systems, and Society for Disaster and Climate Resilience: Experiences and Lessons from the Asian Countries

-Asst. Prof. Supattra Visessri, the Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
Title: Building Drought Resilience in Thailand’s Agricultural Sector

-Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tavida Kamolvej, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Deputy Governor
Title: Resilience Bangkok

-Dr. Constance Chua, the Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University
Title: Tsunami Impacts on Critical Infrastructure: Research Gaps and Challenges

There are various types of titles for you to explore in the theme “Innovation Toward Sustainable Growth and Disaster Risk Reduction”. So which topics are you most interested in? 😀

See you soon in the next few days!

26/11/2022

Less than 3 days before the APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 🎉

Finally, it comes to the time of sharing knowledge from our last keynote speaker. Dr. Constance Chua, the Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, presents in the topic “Tsunami Impacts on Critical Infrastructure: Research Gaps and Challenges”. In the past till present, most people have heard about the tragedy in human life and property caused by Tsunami, potentially leading the study of the reduction and prevention in the severity of natural disasters is favorable. This is a good chance for you to discover other chapters and share your ideas with our speaker - don’t miss it!

We hope to see you soon!

25/11/2022

D-4 until the APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 🎉

Alright, here we go for the last two topics at our symposium. We proudly introduce you to a title that is related to Bangkok! Bangkok Metropolitan is one of the busiest cities in the world with plenty of disaster risk. This is the vision and the experience of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Deputy Governor, Associate Professor Dr. Tavida Kamolvej, the speaker who would like to present the topic of “Resilience Bangkok”.

So we are warmly welcome if you desire to explore the Bangkok experience with this topic.
We are excited to see you!

24/11/2022

Only 5 days before the APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 🎉

Welcome everyone to move on to the last five topics from our keynote speakers! Here is “Building Drought Resilience in Thailand’s Agricultural Sector” given by Asst. Prof. Supattra Visessri. She is one of the members from the Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University.

The Water Resources Department, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University has a lot of research that aims to support and implement in the title of water resources management, water disaster and other water issues mostly related to Thailand.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our event and sharing knowledge together!

23/11/2022

The APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 – 6 Days to go 🎉

Our 6th keynote speaker, Mr. Atiq Ahmed, the Senior Programme Manager of Climate Resilience Department from Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC). This organization is the international organization that has been working to build the resilience of the people and institutions in the Asia and Pacific countries since 1986.

Mr. Ahmed will give us the speech about the “Integrating Multiple Domains of Science, Systems, and Society for Disaster and Climate Resilience: Experiences and Lessons from the Asian Countries” at our symposium on the 2nd day.

Hope to see you both online and on-site.

22/11/2022

Less than 7 days to the beginning of the APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 🎉

Another keynote speaker from National Taiwan University. We would like to introduce you, Prof. Dr. Harold Yih-Chi Tan, the Director of Weather Climate Disaster Research Center. The presentation on the topic of “The Climate Change Impacted on Zhengzhou’s Flooding in China, 2021.”

The WCDR was established in 2003 with the purpose to study and research in the global climate change, natural disaster, the academic collaboration to reduce the disaster damage globally and more.

Wish to see you soon!

21/11/2022

Countdown 8 days to the APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 🎉

We want to announce one of the exciting topics that will be presented in the 17th APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022, “Participatory Technologies as a Catalyst to Reduce Disaster Risk.” be presented by Dr. Aaron Opdyke. He is the Director of Research Training, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney.

We looking forward to seeing you at our event!

20/11/2022

Counting down 9 days to the APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 🎉

Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, the Chief for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNESCAP will join us to give the speech as the keynote speaker. The topic is “Managing Complex, Compound and Cascading Risk: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Actions in Asia and the Pacific.”

19/11/2022

Only 10 days before the APRU MULTI-HAZARDS Symposium 2022 🎉

The next keynote’s topic is “The Role of an Academia in Disaster Resilience.” the topic given in the speech by Dr. Bhichit Rattakul.

The Chairman of the Thai Network for Disaster Resilience - TNDR, the organization established with the cooperation and the MOU signed by numerous universities across Thailand in 2020.

We are so excited to see you!