[Sci-tech-public] Oct. 18th Symposium: How Can We Plan for Safe and Sustainable Regions?

[Kris Kipp]

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>Our next MIT-wide Symposium on BIG questions after BIG Hurricanes will be 
>held on
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>Tuesday, October 18, 2005
>4:00 - 6:00 pm
>Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center
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>This session will focus on the question: How Can We Plan for Safe and 
>Sustainable Regions?
>
>We hope that you and your colleagues will be able to attend.  For those 
>who wish to attend from a distance, it will be broadcast live at 
>http://web.mit.edu/katrina/symposia/.   It can also be viewed afterwards 
>at the same site.
>
>HOW CAN WE PLAN FOR SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE REGIONS?
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>Lessons from Venice, Italy and the Netherlands
>Professor Chiang C. Mei, Civil and Environmental Engineering
>Catastrophe, Repetition, and Social Learning
>Professor Michael M. J. Fischer, Science, Technology and Society
>Flooding, Subsidence, and Community Development
>Professor Anne Whiston Spirn, Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning
>Moderated by Professor Andrew Whittle, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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>Future Event in the Series:
>What Does Current Scientific Research Have to Say About the Present
>and Future Risks Associated with Hurricanes?
>Professor Kerry Emanuel, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
>Monday, October 31, 2005, 12:00 noon - 2:00pm, Bartos Theatre, Wiesner 
>Building
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>Please visit  http://web.mit.edu/katrina/ for a complete list of MIT 
>activities, benefits and resources helping with the Hurricane Katrina 
>recovery efforts.
>
>
>Ted E. Johnson
>Associate Director of the Information Center and
>Director of Community Services
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Room E19-432
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
>Telephone: 617-253-4940
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Kris Kipp
Academic Administrator
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, and
Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Mass. Ave., E51-185
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-253-9759
Fax: 617-258-8118
Email: kipp at mit.edu 
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