KEY TOPICS

RISK ANALYSIS FUNDAMENTALS

• The Risk concept in history and across various scientific domains;
• Variability of risk determinants/components: exposure, hazard, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, resilience;
• Spatial and temporal aspects of systemic risk;
• The past and the future of risks, crises and disasters;
• Risk in education and learning in Europe and beyond;
• Risk in law across Europe;

RISK ASSESSMENT

• Spatial data-bases for risk assessment and mapping;
• Risk assessment methods capturing variability of risk;
• Areas/world regions, hot-spots for hazards, risks and disasters (geophysical, meteorological, hydrological, climatological);
• Vulnerability- and resilience-based social-spatial inequalities;
• New technologies for hazard and risk observation and monitoring;

(DISASTER) RISK MANAGEMENT

• Historical and contemporary (disaster) risk management paradigms;
• Spatial and temporal issues of the disaster risk management cycle;
• Urgency and uncertainty in crisis management;
• Management models adapting to variability of risk;
• Engineering and non-engineering safety regulations in different eras and contexts;
• Past and new technologies in risk and crisis management;

RISK PERCEPTION, COMMUNICATION AND GOVERNANCE

• Risk perception and communication in different regions, cultures and eras;
• Systemic risk communication and governance;
• Risk governance case studies for different regions;

(DISASTER) RISK MITIGATION IN SECTORAL POLICIES

• Policies for enhancing personal, community, institutional, urban resilience;
• Climate Change mitigation and adaptation policies;
• Risk-based Spatial Planning;
• Risks and Insurance across Europe;

MONITORING AND COPING WITH REAL RISK PROBLEMS

• Temporal / spatial analysis and management of geophysical hazards and risks;
• Temporal / spatial analysis and management of Climate Change hazards and risks;
• Technological and Na-tech risk assessment, mapping and management;
• History and geography of public health, epidemic and pandemic risks;
• Cyber security risk assessment for critical infrastructure in Europe;
• Food Security/Safety in Europe and beyond;
• Operational Aspects of Crisis Management;

RISK AND ETHICS

• Risk Culture and Acceptable Risk in Europe and beyond 
• (Disaster) Risk management and cultural Inclusion

Proposals for additional risk topics for special sessions or symposia are also welcome;