Source: RISK newsletter,
Second Quarter 1996, published by the Society for Risk Analysis
The Japan Section of the Society for Risk Analysis will hold its spring symposium and annual business meeting on Friday, June 28, at Sanjo Kiakan of Tokyo University. Katsuhiko Kuroda of Kobe University and Taketoshi Taniguchi of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Generation are organizing the event, which will include the elections of new section officers for 1996-1998.
The symposium will focus on “Risk Management in the Establishment and Management of Social Capitals.” Social capitals (known in the United States as “public works”) are established by governments, by non-governmental bodies, or by both in a joint effort, and risks are inherent at each stage of the process. This is particularly true in developing countries, where the governments lack financial resources and establishing social capitals largely depends on non-governmental bodies, with or without government participation.
An experienced researcher on this subject, Masaki Arioka of Kumagayagumi Construction Company, will deliver the symposium’s keynote address on recent risk issues in the methods of social capital formulation. Other leaders in this field, including Yasunori Shibahara of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Kaoru Ikeda of Japan’s Ministry of Transportation, Siji Nishioka of Japan’s Ministry of Construction, and Naoki Mori of the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, will join Arioka in a panel discussion following his address. Kazuaki Miyamoto of Tohoku University will chair the panel.
The section is preparing to publish a proceedings in English of its 1995 joint annual meeting with SRA in Hawaii. This special volume of the Japanese Journal of Risk Analysis will be available at the end of 1996.
For more information, contact: Secretariat of SRA Japan
Section, c/o Saburo Ikeda, Institute of Socio-Economic Planning,
University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken,
305 Japan, telephone (81) 298-53-5380, fax (81) 298-55-3849,
e-mail ikeda@shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [Note: Old e-mail address; do not use. (posted
3/21/05)]