Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are proudly announcing that the Regional and City Planning ITB this year will held a Joint International Conference of 3Rd Plano Cosmo and 10th Symposium of Society for Social Management Systems. The conference will consist of 3 main activities, i.e. International Conference, Lecture, and Student Poster Session.
The theme of the conference is “Resilient City, Resilient Region“
Date and Venue: 26th – 27th October, 2015 in ITB Bandung, Indonesia
New Date of Abstract Submission Deadline: 31st May 2015
Detailed abstract submission is now available at: http://planocosmo.sappk.itb.ac.id/extended-abstract-paper-submission/.
Objectives:
Planning concerns with various problems of regions and cities to create functional and better living conditions. It learns from the past and understands current situation to create a better future. Managing crises and uncertainty has become an important issue in planning. It even becomes part of main activities. In increasingly complex and interdependent world, nations and communities have to encounter rapid and unpredictable changes sometimes with detrimental social and economic impacts. In this situation, appropriate and innovative solutions have to be found to survive in the current and future economic and environment crises. Sound management of social systems has to be undertaken along with appropriate structural or technical solutions. To survive the crisis, resiliency of regions and cities has become an important quest. It will determine ability to continue development and eventually to sustain societies in the developed and the developing worlds. With this background in mind, we call concerned planners, engineers, social scientists and practitioners to share ideas, knowledge, and experience for creating wider benefits for our societies in this Plano Cosmo and SSMS joint conference that will be conducted under collaboration between Department of Urban and Regional Planning of Institute Technology of Bandung and the Society of Social Management System.
The ultimate goal of this conference is to create better understanding and synergy between proponents of regional and city planning and management of social systems.
Conference’s Topics:
- Innovative Disaster Mitigation and Management
– Mega Disasters and Challenges
– Disaster Early Warning, Preparedness, Prevention, and Response & Recovery
– Pre and/or Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Planning and Management
– Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Planning
– Disaster Risk Financing
– Business Continuity Planning
- Environmental Planning and Management
– Climate Change and Environmental Management
– Sustainable Region and City
– Green City and Carbon Reduction for resilient city
– Urban sprawl management
– Deforestation and Land Degradation
- Infrastructure Planning and Management
– Infrastructure Management and Materials
– Asset Management, Information Management and Water Resource Management
– Transportation management
– Social system management
– Construction Management and Dispute Resolution
- Food, Water and Energy Security
– Energy Conscious City
– Urban Farming
– Rural-Urban Transformation and Land Conversion
– Water Security
- Regional/City Planning and Management
– Entrepreneurship and New Business Creation
– Regional-Revitalization
– Zoning Regulation in the City
– Tourism Planning
– Inclusive development
– Resiliency and Poverty
- Methods and Tools in Resilient City and Region
– ICT for Resiliency
– GIS and Remote Sensing
– Smart City and Region
– Social based method for resilient city
- Institution and Finance
– Innovative Enhancement Capacity
– Adaptive Forms and Behaviors
– Policy and budgeting for resilient city
– CSR and NGO’s contributions and International Cooperation
Lecture:
Provided by international reputable experts in disaster resilience and sustainable development
Student Poster Session:
Student forum for academic sharing
The Conference, Lecture and Student Poster Session will be a good opportunity for you to network among participants and share knowledge with more than one hundred experts and scholars from at least seven countries who will present their latest works in our parallel sessions on seven key topics stated above.
Detailed conference programs are now available at: http://planocosmo.sappk.itb.ac.id/program/.
Registration and Conference Fee Payment:
If you are interested to join the conference as participants, we would like to inform you that as from 16th September 2015 the early bird rates are closed and, thus, now we charge the conference fee at regular rates. There is special rate for Indonesian citizen are also subject to subsidy (upon request via email before 16th September 2015). You will not be registered to this conference until you send the proof of payment of the conference fee. Please follow all steps in this link: http://planocosmo.sappk.itb.ac.id/fees-payment/
We look forward to see you in Bandung.
With our best regards,
Organizing Committee
The 3rd PlanoCosmo International Conference
http://planocosmo.sappk.itb.ac.id/
Email: planocosmo@sappk.itb.ac.id
