Earth Resilience Symposium; March 12th, 2012

Wina, 01 March 2012: Reporter: Hary Febriansyah Background:Current situation of the world involves many global challenges that impacts not only regionally but also globally. Challenges like climate challenges, lack of energy resources, and natural and man-made disaster are interrelated, consuming a lot of money, and hampering the development and productivity of countries, e.g., Fukushima case (earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster, and lost of energy supply). To overcome these challenges, we need multidisciplinary and multilateral approaches, involving multidisciplinary research institutes, universities, governments, and communities. The idea of earth resilience is how to preserve the earth from three types of global challenges Energy sustainability:Diversity and sustainability of energy source, no longer depend only on fossil fuel, suggesting on the using of hybrid fuel or renewable energy.Disaster resilience: Preparation, mitigation, and avoidance to different types of disaster.Food security: How to ensure the security of food of the world population despite of climate changes and natural disaster. How to distribute the logistic to the disaster area. The aims of this symposium are to collect and coordinate experts from multidisciplinary fields in attempt to manage and mitigate disaster in order to minimize the loss and number of victims: to share expertise, experience and knowledge in managing different types of disaster.

Time schedule and Speakers:

• 07:45 - 08:30 Registration
• 08:30 – 09:00 greeting speeches and symposium opening
  • Chairman of Indonesian Students Association in Austria: Hary Febriansyah
  • Ambassador of Republic of Indonesia: HE I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja
  • General Manager of OeAD: Prof. Dr. Hubert Dürrstein
• 09:00 - 09:30 Speech from Minister of Research and Technology of Republic of Indonesia and discussion
• 09:30 – 10:00 coffee break
• 10:00 – 12:00 Session 1: information technology for earth resilience
  • Prof. Nakicenovic Nebojsa (TU Wien, IIASA)
  • Dr. Alexander Schatten (Sophisystems)
  • Dr. Stefan Fenz (Secure Business Austria, TU Wien)
  • Dr. Johny Setiawan (Max-Planck Institute Germany, Indonesian International Scholar Association)
• 12:00 – 13:00 lunch break
• 13:00 – 15:00 Session 2: science and engineering for earth resilience
  • Prof. Erich Lehner (TU Wien)
  • Prof. Alfred Pitterle (BOKU)
  • Dr. Michael Obersteiner (IIASA)
  • Achmad Adhitya, M.Sc. (NIOO – KNAW Netherlands, Indonesian International Scholar Association)
• 15:00 - 15:30 conclusion
  • Dr. Johny Setiawan (Max-Planck Institute Germany, Indonesian International Scholar Association)*
  • Achmad Aditya, M.Sc. (NIOO – KNAW Netherlands, Indonesian International Scholar Association)*

Maju bersama PPI Austria!!!