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Cascading Disasters: Theory, Methods and Empirics

International workshop

Day 1 November 28th workshop

Faculty of Architecture and Town planning, Amado building, room 232

09:30 - 09:45    Introduction and Welcome from the organizers

  • Deborah Shmueli, Head, National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency ReadinessYouTube icon
  • Daniel Felsenstein, Hebrew UniversityYouTube icon

09:45 – 11:15   Session 1: Understanding Cascading Disasters

Chair:Scira Menoni 

  • Gianluca Pescaroli, University College, London: Understanding Cascading Disasters: A Framework for Analysis YouTube icon
  • Shlomo Havlin, Bar Ilan University: Cascading Failures and Recovery in Interdependent Infrastructures YouTube icon
  • Yakov Ben-Haim, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology: Cascading Failures: A Preliminary Info-Gap AnalysisYouTube icon

11:30 – 13:00   Session 2: Social, Health and Planning

Chair: Deborah Shmueli 

  • Deborah Thomas, University of North Carolina: Using health (in)equity to gauge social vulnerability and potential for cascading disasters YouTube icon
  • Ben Sachs, Technion and Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine: Crises and Turnaround Management: Lessons Learned from Recovery of New Orleans and Tulane University Following Hurricane Katrina. YouTube icon
  • Scira Menoni, Politecnico di Milano: A systemic approach to deal with enchained failures and damages triggered by natural hazards in complex urban environments YouTube icon
  • Alexander Altshuler, Israel National Emergency Management Authority: Social and community aspects of cascading disasters: the case of new immigrants following the Second Lebanon WarYouTube icon

14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Infrastructure and Physical Damage

Chair: Daniel Felsenstein 

  • Erick Mas, IRIDES, Tohoku University: Large-scale damage assessment and evacuation feasibility in cascading disasters
  • Hillel Bar Gera, Ben Gurion University: Scheduling Road Network Recovery in Cascading Disasters 

Presentation

  • Luis Moya, IRIDES, Tohoku University: Building damage detection from multiple dis- asters by fusion of remote sensing and numerical simulation of demand parameters

15:45 – 17:15 Session 4: Socio-Economic Modeling

Chair: Deborah Thomas

  • Sebastian Polenda, IIASA Laxenburg: Assessing cascading disaster losses with an agent-based model: an application to floods in Austria
  • Shlomo Mizrachi, Haifa University: Cascading Disasters, Information Cascades and Continuous Time Models of Domino Effects
  • Daniel Felsenstein, Hebrew University: Cascading Disasters and Labor Market Outcomes 

Day 2 November 29th Open Conference

Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Kahn building, auditorium 6  

09:30-09:45 Deborah Shmueli, Head, National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness: Introductory remarks

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09:45 – 10:10: Ze'ev (Vova) Zuk-Ram, Head of the Israeli National. Emergency Authority (RACHEL) (in Hebrew)
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10:10 – 10:50 Lectures

10:10 – 10:30 Gianluca Pescaroli, University College, London: One thing leads to another: being ready for cascading crises and disastersYouTube icon

10:30 – 10:50 Sebastian Poledna, IIASA Laxenburg:  How to estimate the risk of cascading flood losses: the Austrian case YouTube icon

11:20 – 11:40 Miki Halbertal Deputy Director of Rambam Hospital Center (in Hebrew): Innovative solution for continuous emergency situation.

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11:40 – 12:00 Itsic Gai, Former commander of the Home Front Command (HFC) Planning Department (in Hebrew): The Earthquake in Nepal as a Case Study of Cascading Disasters.YouTube icon

12:00 – 12:20 Alexander Altshuler, Israel National Emergency Management Authority (in Hebrew): It's all about synergy and integration: towards strategic responses to cascading disastersYouTube icon

12:20 – 13:30 Multi-disciplinary panel on cascading disasters (in Hebrew)YouTube icon

Facilitator: Deborah Shmueli, Head of the National Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness, with Center researchers: Yakov Ben-Haim (Risk Assessment and Management), Eran Feitelson (Environment), Daniel Felsenstein (Public Policy), Miki Halberthal (Public Health and Emergency Medicine), Rassem Khamaisi (Social Sciences), Michal Shamai (Social Work and Welfare).

אוניברסיטת חיפה, שד' אבא חושי 199, הר הכרמל, חיפה, 3498838
University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave. Mount Carmel, Haifa Israel, 3498838
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בתמיכת: משרד המדע והטכנולוגיה והרשות הלאומית לחירום (רח"ל) במשרד הביטחון
Supported by: The Israel Ministry of Science and Technology The National Emergency Management Authority, Ministry of Defense