Disaster Research Days 2022
Conference venue
Evening reception
The evening reception is still being planned.
Science and research play an essential role in preventing disasters and building resilient systems. The transfer of scientific knowledge into practice, as well as the joint discourse with representatives of experts from authorities, emergency organizations and business are crucial in order to be as prepared as possible for challenges in the prevention and management of disasters.
The Disaster Research Days 2022 support this dialogue and the networking between the individual scientific disciplines and departments in disaster management.
The #DRD22 will be held from October 12th to 14th at the University of Innsbruck.
Call for Abstracts
Would you like to submit a contribution for the Disaster Research Days in Innsbruck? Submissions that have received positive reviews will be published in our conference proceedings. The most interesting contributions will be peer-reviewed and included in the conference program as an oral presentation. All others are invited to present their contribution during the poster session. Selected articles will be published in a special issue of the .
An abstract (two pages with tables and figures) can be written in both German and English and should be assigned to the following main topics:
- Disaster risk:
- Risk and crisis communication
- Risk governance and societal handling of disasters
- Digitization and technology assessment
- Critical infrastructure:
- Vulnerability to natural hazards
- Structural safety
- security of supply,
- Mass movements, avalanches and earthquakes:
- Geospatial data management and monitoring
- Modeling and simulation
- Interaction of gravitational mass movements with infrastructure
- Extreme weather events:
- Heavy rain, hail, storms
- forest fire
- Extreme heat and late frost
- Floods:
- Flood risk modeling
- Simulation (prediction and early detection)
- Public Health:
- Current studies on COVID-19
- Pandemic management
- Emergency and Disaster Medicine
- Crisis Psychology and Community Resilience
Time schedule:
- until May 9, 2022: abstract submission period
- until the end of June 2022: Reviewer period
- July / August 2022: Paper selection for Special Issue (International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction), as well as conference program and poster session
You can register to DRD22 using our ConfTool at the following link:
The following participation fees apply:
Participant: 250 €
DCNA member: 125 €
Student & member of an emergency organization or government agency: 25 €
For further questions we are available per E-Mail.
Submission
In order to submit a paper to the Disaster Research Days, the must be used. The submission is only possible after login/registration using our .