This year marks the 4th anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck northern Japan on March 11, 2011. Subsequent to the twin natural disasters, the health and safety of Japan as well as the global community were faced with the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant — a human-made disaster on an epic and frightening scale.

Under the theme of Breaking Barriers, this international, peer-reviewed conference is a call to academics and practitioners to join us from April 29 to May 1, 2015 in Japan’s ‘City of Peace’ for this timely and important discussion of disaster response and management.

We welcome proposals from the following topic areas:

Animals in Disasters
Built Environment
Climate Change and Disasters
Cyber Defense: Operations and Security
Disaster Funding, Laws and Policies
Disaster Medicine
Disaster Opportunism and Profiteering
Disaster Phases and Preparedness
Disaster Relief, Resilience and Research
Disaster Response and Management
Disaster ICT and Emergency Communications
Early Warning Systems
Emergency Services Management and Control
Engineering for Natural and Human-made Disasters
Environmental Emergencies
Epidemics and Outbreaks
First Aid: Special Equipment and Services
First Response and First Responders
Forecasting Weather / Meteorology
Homeland Security and Terrorism
Maritime Disasters
Natural Disasters
Role of Firemen in Disaster Response and Management
Role of Media in Disaster Response and Management
Role of Police in Disaster Response and Management
Role of the Military in Disaster Response and Management
Safety Vehicles Operation and Innovation
Search and Rescue: Sea, Air and Land
Sociology of Disasters
Other Areas (please specify)