Preparing for the Next Katrina:

Putting Community Resilience Research into Action

 CALL FOR PAPERS FROM GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Friday, October 2, 2009

University of Southern Mississippi—Gulf Coast

Long Beach, MS

 

Sponsored by

The Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI)

and the Center for Policy and Resilience (CPR).

 

Four years after Hurricane Katrina devestated on the Gulf Coast and the host site of this conference, this interdisciplinary research symposium seeks paper proposals from graduate and undergraduate students on disaster resilience and its applications to communities vulnerable to disasters and chaotic events. The conference will include panel and roundtable discussions, as well as speakers.

Submission of Papers

·         Issue areas may include any area or application of community resilience from all academic disciplines, including disaster mitigation, geographic and scientific perspectives, and economic, political, and social resilience.

·         Ten $200 travel stipends available on a competitive basis.

·         Opportunity for publication of presented papers in a special issue of Global Horizons, published by the Center for Policy and Resilience.

·         Awards for best graduate and undergraduate papers.

·         Please submit all proposals to the attention of Jack Covarrubias at: thenextkatrinaconference@gmail.com by the deadline of September 21, 2009.

·         For more information, please visit the conference website hosted at: http://www.usm.edu/gc/academic-dean