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1st International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE):
Enhancing Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
May 27-29, 2010
Islamic University of Indonesia, Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Introduction

At present, there has been a significant escalation in the number and variety of disasters happening worldwide, which have resulted in losses of human life and destructions of property. Many countries throughout the world are vulnerable to a wide variety of natural and man-made hazards and disasters.

A number of weather and water disasters, like flooding, landslides, hurricanes, abrasion, droughts, and many others remain a threat to many geographical regions on earth. Frequent natural disasters caused by plate tectonic and land movement, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis, are common things for numerous countries including those located in the Pacific Ring of Fire. Moreover, disasters at present have become closely connected with climate change. Extreme weather occurrences are likely to increase the number and scale of natural disasters.

Nowadays, the world also faces another form of hazards created by human being. Man-made disasters like this include human intentions, abandonment or failure of system, like industrial hazards, structural collapse, radiation contamination and so on. Furthermore, new emerging and re-emerging diseases causing an outbreak throughout the world become a peril. Conflicts in many areas causing civil disturbances, war, terrorism also poses a