[Sdi-latinamericacaribbean] Conference - Disaster Risk Reduction in the Caribbean: the roles of the Surveying Community

[Kate Lance]

The conference is being organized in conjunction with the 10th International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-10), http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi10/ 
 
http://www.casleconferences.co.uk/page12.html
Conference - Disaster Risk Reduction in the Caribbean: the roles of the Surveying Community 
1 March 2008  
University of West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad
The conference seeks papers that cover a range of topics relevant to the conference theme, including, but not restricted to:
 Hazard mapping techniques
 GPS-based search and rescue
 Physical planning towards hazard mitigation
 Housing development
 Remote sensing techniques
 Land reform and land tenure
 Land records management
 Property valuation
 Property taxation
 GIS-based risk modeling
 Information Management
 Skills training and education
Abstract deadline:  November 19, 2007
 
For enquiries, contact: Dr. Jacob Opadeyi, Department of Surveying and Land Information, Faculty of Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, jacob.opadeyi at sta.uwi.tt  or jopadeyi at hotmail.com 
 
Also note: Trinidad Regional conference on climate change & disaster management (April 2008), listed at
http://www.awestcott.freeserve.co.uk/casle/confer00.htm

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