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8th Int. Conf. Building Resilience #2018ICBR - CfP open untill 4th March

Created Jan 13 2018, 12:00 AM by Pedro Pinto Santos
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Dear Members of the C4D community,

 

Please feel free to submit a paper and/or disseminate the

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUILDING RESILIENCE |  8th ICBR, 7-9 November 2018, Lisbon

 

SCOPE

 

The 8th International Conference on Building Resilience, with the theme “Risk and Resilience in practice: Vulnerabilities, Displaced People, Local Communities and Heritages”, will be held 7-9 November, 2018, in the historical city of Lisbon, Portugal.

 

As with the previous editions of the ICBR series – most recent held in Bangkok, Thailand, in last November, with over 325 delegates – the 2018' Lisbon conference will bring together the full diversity of the science community, policy makers, practitioners and researchers from all geographical regions, at local, national, regional and international levels to share state of the art research, and discuss how the science community will best support the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

 

The 8th ICBR offer 25 conference subthemes & tracks for submission of oral or poster presentations. These tracks are grouped into four themes according to the Sendai priorities.

 

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

 

We invite you to submit an abstract through the Easy Chair submission platform at http://2018.buildresilience.org/  (Easychair you will require you to set up an account first).

 

IMPORTANT NOTES

 

1. Please don't miss to identify in the header of your abstract:

a) the track & subtheme of your preference,

b)  whether you are submitting for ORAL or POSTER presentation,

and do NOT put your details on the abstracts' body text field at the submision form nor on the PDF file to be submitted  (name, affiliation, email, etc)  as all abstracts will be subject to double-blinded peer review.

 

2. Submitted abstracts should be limited to 400-500 words, covering in a systematic way the following aspects: Background context; Justification of the research / research argument; Goals; Methods/ approach; Findings/results; Conclusions. After the paragraph of the abstract, keywords should be presented (up to 5).

 

DEADLINE

 

4 March 2018: Abstract submission close

 

MORE INFO

 

Further details of the conference (Special features, Associate partners&Fees reductions and publication opportunities) are available at: http://2018.buildresilience.org . For any queries please contact the Organising Committee:  icbr2018@buildresilience.org .

 

We look forward to receiving your submission. Get on board! #2018ICBR

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