| Session Details | |
| Section | HS - Hydrological Sciences |
| Session Title | Climate Change Impact Assessment on Water-related Disaster among Korea, Taiwan, and Japan |
| Main Convener | Prof. Eiichi Nakakita (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Liang-Chun Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Prof. Young-Oh Kim (Seoul National University, Korea, South) Prof. Yasuto Tachikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Dr. Tetsuya Takemi (Kyoto University, Japan) Dr. Nobuhito Mori (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Session Description | Korea, Taiwan, and Japan commonly have been suffered from same kind of water related disaster such as flood and inundation, land slide, and storm surge due to severe weather by Baiu (Maiyu) front and Typhoon. The purpose of this session is to exchange new idea on some difficulties in climate change impact assessment on these common disasters and to make titer cooperation to solve them. Producing a worst case scenario and assessment on multi-hazard are also important topic under this session. Such being the case, a session “Climate Change Impact Assessment among Korea, Taiwan, and Japan” has been successfully conducted at the18th Congress of the Asia & Pacific Division of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR-APD 2012). Threfore, this session has an aspect of one of the joint sessions among IAHS-APHW-IHP. In order to continue and deepen the exchange and collaboration, we look forward to your contributions. |