6th Canadian risk and hazards network (CHRNet) symposium
The Canadian Risks and Hazards Network is a broadly-based group of practitioners, researchers, governmental, commercial, industrial, and community-focused members. We are interested in all risks and hazards, both natural and human-caused.
A consistent goal of the CRHNet symposiums is to foster inter-disciplinary and inter-jurisdictional dialogue among attendees (e.g., practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and academics) towards a more disaster-resilient community.
The 2009 symposium is set to identify lessons learned, recommended systems, and models that would facilitate better communication, broader collaboration and more inclusive engagement of stakeholders as key strategies of disaster resiliency.
Presentations will be grouped into four general themes:
Health sciences or services including
- Psychosocial lessons-learned and strategies
- Strategies for planning or response to pandemics
- Medical response strategies
- Collaboration strategies at a Triage site
Natural sciences including
- Hazard (public) communication strategies or practices
- Multi-discipline collaboration strategies
- Mitigation strategies
Social sciences or services including
- Disaster sociology ‘lessons learned’ regarding public engagement, communication and collaboration
- Community resiliency strategies
- Emergency Social Services
Governance, policy and management including
- Stakeholder-engagement strategies
- Collaboration strategies for policy development
- Communication strategies
- Land use planning strategies
- Spatial decision support systems
- Warning systems
- Incident management systems
- Crisis management systems or strategies