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and Disasters
in Asia (Co-sponsored by Hazards Specialty Group). Organizer:
Doracie B. Zoleta-Nantes, Rutgers University. Chairs: Nora Chiang,
National Taiwan University, Jiun-Chuan Lin, National Taiwan University.
1:15 Jiun-Chuan Lin, National Taiwan
University, Natural Hazards of Taiwan-A Case Study of Typhoon Herb;
1:35 Kenneth K.K. Wong, Hong Kong
Baptist University, Simon X.B. Zhao, Hong Kong Baptist University , Living
with the Flood: Human Response to the 1994 Flood Hazard in Beijiang River,
Guangdong, China;
1:55 Doracie B. Zoleta-Nantes, Rutgers
University, Spatial Segregation and Vulnerability to Hazards: Urban Floods
in the Philippines;
2:15 N. Vinod Chandra Menon, Yeshwantrao
Chavan Academy, Capacity Building on Vulnerable Communities in Disseminating
Mitigation Strategies: The Case of Maharashtra.
Discussants: John Handmer, Middlesex
University, Bimal K. Paul, Kansas State University.
3:15-4:55 p.m. #616. Hazards
in Asia II: Trends, Problems, and Opportunities in Hazards and Disaster
Research and Applications in Asia. (Co-sponsored by Hazards Specialty Group).
Organizer: Doracie B. Zoleta-Nantes, Rutgers University. Chairs:
Burrell Montz, Binghamton University, Kenneth K.K. Wong, Hong Kong Baptist
University.
Panelists: Burrell Montz, Binghamton
University, James Kenneth Mitchell, Rutgers University, Jiun-Chuan Lin,
National Taiwan University, Doracie B. Zoleta-Nantes, Rutgers University,
John Handmer, Middlesex University, N.Vinod Chandra Menon, Yeshwantrao
Chavan Academy, Bimal K. Paul, Kansas State University, Nora Chiang, National
Taiwan University, Kenneth K.K. Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University.
5:15 - 6:15 p.m. #640. Social
and Spatial Restructuring in East Asia (Co-sponsored by China Specialty
Group). Organizer: Mary G. McDonald, University of Hawaii.
Chair: Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, Nat'l University of Singapore.
5:15 Piper Gaubatz, University of
Massachusetts, Metropolitan Development and Restructuring in China and
Japan;
5:35 John J. Metz, Northern Kentucky
University, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Japan's nuclear Power Industry;
5:55 Daniel Buck, University of California-Berkeley,
Growth, Disintegration, and Decentralization: The Construction of Taiwan's
Industrial Structure;
6:15 Mary G. McDonald, University
of Hawaii, Is Labor 'Released' from Agriculture in East Asia?.
Sunday, March 29
7:30-9:10 a.m. #681. Human-Environment
Interactions in the Himalayas I. Organizer: John J. Metz, Northern
Kentucky University. Chair: Nanda R. Shrestha, Florida A&M University.
7:30 Andrea J. Nightingale, University
of Minnesota, Forest Reclamation, Deforestation, or the Wrath of the Gods:
The Political Ecology of Land Management in Nepal;
7:50 David Butz, Brock University,
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