The main topic of the symposium “Natural Disasters Mitigation Including Floods, Storms, Debris flows, Mass movements and Earthquakes etc.” is sub-divided into six categories.

I. Field Observation, Analysis and Modeling
II. Risk Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy
III. Strategy for Hazard Mitigation against Global Warming
IV. Recovery Activities
V. Management for Sustainable Land Use
VI. Secondary Geo-hazards and Restoration
- Chichi Earthquake (1999)
- Niigata Earthquake (2004)
- Iwate-Miyagi Earthquake (2008)
- Wenchuan Earthquake (2008)
- Typhoon Morakot (2009)