AGU Fall Meeting 2019

As AGU marks its Centennial in 2019, we return to San Francisco, the home of the AGU Fall Meeting for more than 40 years. Join our diverse community at the newly renovated Moscone Center as we collaborate across borders and boundaries to explore and develop our research. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in Centennial presentations and special events that will bring to life the past, present and the future of our science.

TH53A - Future Earth Knowledge-Action-Network on Extreme Events and Emergent Risks: Risk-KAN

December 13, 21:30 - 22:30
(Co-)convener: Markus Reichstein

The Town Hall aims to start the Global initiatives to seek collaboration and participation at large for building The Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events, problem identifications in management of risks and extreme events in coastal,marine and Estuarine disasters, Sea level changes, tsunami risk and rehabilitation, Ocean and Marine governance, early warning etc. to investigate problems related to social-economic and ecological risks, management issues resulting from the marine and Coastal disasters, tsunami and Geo- disaster, recent Hurricanes and cyclones, to aid mitigation planning in affected areas and to educate scientists and local populations to form a basis for sustainable solutions. It aims to assess the potential risk and hazard, social, economic and technical issues, problems and damage arising from coastal and estuarine disasters in the different part of the globe in agriculture, aquaculture, irrigation, drinking water, coastal infrastructure, coastal ecosystems and coastal economic systems using disaster mapping ,GIS and GPS applications.