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GIS Center for Environment and Disaster Mitigation, Niigata University held an international GIS forum on global warming, disaster mitigation and landscaping on Nov. 26, 2007 at Hotel Nikko Niigata.We International Academic Support Office (IASO) supported part of its funding, total coordination and management.

This GIS forum was meant to contribute to the progress of disaster mitigation by GIS practices and as such GIS specialists were invited to present their research results from five countries.About hundred people--students, researchers, business persons, officers from local governments--participated in this forum, and based on the presentations made from local as well as global points of view by GIS specialists they discussed how GIS can help to build a secure and safe community, especially for its disaster mitigation.

On the following day (Nov. 27), Prof. Yong-Seok Seo (Chungbuk National University, Korea) gave a special talk on the Korean example of GIS implementations for students of the Department of Science at Ikarashi Campus, NiigataUniversity.

We only wish the Forum and the following special lecture opened up a new horizon of expectation in the minds of our participants through the discussion based on experiences, knowledge and friendship.

Morning Sessions

Global Warming and GIS： Chairman: Prof. Kouichi Nishimura, Niigata Univ.	Prof. Jinro Ukita (Niigata Univ.) "Global Warming and Arctic Change"
	Mr. Samjwal Bajracharya (ICIMOD, Nepal) "Application of GIS on the Study of Impact of Earth Warming on the Himalaya Glaciers and GlacierLakes"
	Mr. Moussa Sane (PhD from Senegal, NiigataUniv.) "Global Warming and Coastal Erosion"
Disaster and GIS：Chairman: Prof. Hiromitsu Yamagishi, Niigata Univ.	Prof. Vishnu Dangol (Tribvan Univ., Nepal) "Landslide Hazard Mapping in Nepal: A GISperspective"
	Mr. Ayalew Lulseged (Univ., of Hamburg, Germany)" A GIS-RS Based Flood Hazard Analysis in the Lower Omo River Basin, Ethiopia"

Afternoon Sessions

Landscape and GIS： Chairman: Prof. Toru Tanaka, Niigata Univ.	Prof Carl Steinitz (Graduate School of Design, Harvard Univ., USA)" Alternative Futures of the Region of Lapaz, Baja California Sur, Mexico"
	Prof. Keiji Yano (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)"Restoring and Managing Urban Landscapes Using Virtual Kyoto"
Disscusion： Chairman: Prof. Hiromitsu Yamagishi, Niigata Univ.	Prof. Yong-Seok Seo (Chungbuk Univ., Korea)"Application of GIS to Engineering Geology in Korea"