DREAM 2015 - Asian Conference on Disaster Response and Management

Hiroshima, Japan serves as an ideal setting for academics, practitioners, policy-makers, first-responders and students who desire to share ideas, knowledge, research and experience in a forum of peaceful dialog and constructive outcomes.
This year marks the 4th anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck northern Japan on March 11, 2011. Subsequent to the twin natural disasters, the health and safety of Japan as well as the global community were faced with the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant ? a human-made disaster on an epic and frightening scale.
What type of governance structures, management practices, technological innovations, legal agreements or policy tools can best bridge the needs-limitation gap in order to facilitate and accelerate disaster response and management? The rapid economic growth of the developing countries in Asia in recent decades has added a new dimension to this process, by shifting the leverage of change from the West to the East. Designing infrastructure, products, enterprises and processes with disaster response and management in mind can have an enormous impact on environmental and social systems.
Under the theme of Breaking Barriers, this international, peer-reviewed conference is a call to academics and practitioners to join us from April 29 to May 1, 2015 in Japan’s ‘City of Peace’ for this timely and important discussion of disaster response and management.
We welcome proposals from the following topic areas:
Animals in Disasters
Built Environment
Climate Change and Disasters
Cyber Defense: Operations and Security
Disaster Funding, Laws and Policies
Disaster Medicine
Disaster Opportunism and Profiteering
Disaster Phases and Preparedness
Disaster Relief, Resilience and Research
Disaster Response and Management
Disaster ICT and Emergency Communications
Early Warning Systems
Emergency Services Management and Control
Engineering for Natural and Human-made Disasters
Environmental Emergencies
Epidemics and Outbreaks
First Aid: Special Equipment and Services
First Response and First Responders
Forecasting Weather / Meteorology
Homeland Security and Terrorism
Maritime Disasters
Natural Disasters
Role of Firemen in Disaster Response and Management
Role of Media in Disaster Response and Management
Role of Police in Disaster Response and Management
Role of the Military in Disaster Response and Management
Safety Vehicles Operation and Innovation
Search and Rescue: Sea, Air and Land
Sociology of Disasters
Other Areas (please specify)
Program Director
Michael Sasaoka Michael Sasaoka
Academic Director, TIER A Research Center, Japan
Professor, Gifu College of Business and Economics, Japan
Professor Michael Sasaoka holds degrees in international business and Japanese from San Diego State University, USA. Combining his interests in business and education he has been involved with education and training in Japan for the past seventeen years at the secondary, tertiary and corporate level. He has worked in curriculum design roles with YMB, ETS and CIEE. His research interest include globalization, sustainable development, oceanography and overfishing. Professor Sasaoka has previously worked at several universities in Japan in both teaching and research capacities. Presently, he is involved with a private research center that tracks data and implements nationwide TOEIC examinations. In addition, he is also preparing an interdisciplinary curriculum design program for a new college in Gifu, Japan. In his free time, he is an avid aquarist and maintains a five hundred liter, aquascaped saltwater aquarium. He is passionately concerned about the impact of pollution and overfishing on the global health of oceans and reefs.
Martin G. Romero-Morett, Ph.D.
martin romero morett Martin G. Romero-Morett, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of the Economics Department
University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Dr. Martin G. Romero Morett heads the Department of Economics at the University of Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico. His field of teaching and research is international economic cooperation for development.
Dr. Martin G. Romero Morett earned a Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo, a master’s degree at the University of Washington and a BA in Economics from the University of Guadalajara. He has served as an official in the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Economic Development of the State of Jalisco, Mexico. But his most extensive experience has developed in the university as a professor of undergraduate and graduate students; as a researcher in the field of economic integration processes; and as an officer, where he has been coordinator of the BA in Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Guadalajara. He was the co-founding director of the Master of International Economic Relations and Cooperation (Latin America-European Union), which is a program that is taught jointly with the Center for Latin American Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University.
Salvador Peniche-Camps, Ph.D.
SPC Salvador Peniche-Camps, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Dr Salvador Peniche-Camps is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guadalajara. His area of teaching expertise is environmental economics with a special emphasis on water related issues.
Professor Salvador Peniche-Camps teaches in the Department of Economics at the University of Guadalajara, where he is also the coordinator of the Integral Basin Management Project in the University Center of Economics and Administrative Sciences. In addition, he also holds the title of Director of the International Seminar on the Santiago River Basin.
His primary research interests are in water administration, ecological economics and water economic fields. He has been working in international lobbying initiatives as well as international consulting for Mexican NGOs.
Dr Peniche-Camps has published extensively and he is the director of the scientific journal “Expresion Economica”, which is maintained by the Economics Department of the University Center of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Guadalajara.
John Stayton
John Stayton John Stayton
Executive Director of Graduate and Professional Programs
School of Business and Economics
Sonoma State University, USA
John Stayton is the Executive Director of Graduate and Professional Programs for the School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University, a position which encompasses both the evening and executive formats of SSU’s traditional and wine business MBA programs.
After fifteen years in the field of high technology industrial marketing, John desired to leverage his business background by developing a profession that would serve the environment and society. In 2000, he co-founded the world’s first graduate program in sustainable business that, in 2002, became known as the GreenMBA. The GreenMBA at Dominican University of California is a rigorous two-year program that transforms students’ abilities to advance environmental and social initiatives in any type of organization. In 2013, John became the Executive Director of Graduate and Professional Programs for the School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University, a position which encompasses both the evening and executive formats of SSU’s traditional and wine business MBA programs.
Bhimaraya Metri, Ph.D.
metri Bhimaraya Metri, Ph.D. (IIT ? Bombay)
Dean (Academic)
Professor of Operations Management
International Management Institute
Former Dean of MDI & SSBS
President, Indian Subcontinent-region
Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), Atlanta, USA
Dr Bhimaraya Metri is Academic Dean and Professor of Operations Management at the International Management Institute (IMI), located in Delhi, India.
Dr Bhimaraya Metri is Professor of Operations Management at the International Management Institute (IMI), located in Delhi, India. Prior to joining IMI, Professor Metri served as the Dean of the Strathclyde SKIL Business School, and also held numerous academic leadership positions, including Dean (Academics) and Dean (Graduate Programmes), and Chairman (PGPM) at top league B-school MDI Gurgaon. He has also served at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani. Prof Metri has published over 90 research articles in international and national journals and proceedings. He is on several editorial advisory boards of national and international journals.