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Community Resilience Research Symposium

This document announces a student conference on community resilience research and its applications to disaster-prone areas. The conference will be held on October 2, 2009 at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast campus, and is seeking paper proposals from graduate and undergraduate students on topics related to disaster resilience. Topics may address any aspect of community resilience from an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference will include panel discussions and guest speakers.

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Community Resilience Research Symposium

This document announces a student conference on community resilience research and its applications to disaster-prone areas. The conference will be held on October 2, 2009 at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast campus, and is seeking paper proposals from graduate and undergraduate students on topics related to disaster resilience. Topics may address any aspect of community resilience from an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference will include panel discussions and guest speakers.

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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@[Link] by the deadline of September 21,
2009.
• For more information, please visit the conference website hosted at:
[Link]

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