Risk Science and Sustainability

Preface. Acknowledgements. Workshop Initiative, Programme and Organising Committees. Workshop Synopsis. Budapest Manifesto. * Talks: The Globalisation of Risk in the XXIst Century; J.-P. Connerade. Risk and Sustainability in Water Resources Management; U. Shamir. Aids to Decision Making in Risk Management: Mobilisation of the Scientific Community to Improve Risk Management; J.-P. Massué. Science and Risk: Scientific Authority at Risk; G. Schméder. Basic Science for Prediction and Reduction of Geological Disasters; V. Keilis-Borok. * Papers: Environmental Risk and Sustainability; T. Beer. Science for Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development: The Role of Law; J. Paterson. Sustainable Development and Risk Evaluation: Challenges and Possible New Methodologies; A. Makarenko. On Predictability of Homicide Surges in Megacities; V. Keilis-Borok, et al. Earthquakes and Megacities; F. Wenzel, F. Bendimerad. * Case Studies: Earth Sciences Contribution to the Sustainable Development of Ground Transportation Systems: Relevant Case Studies in Central Europe; G. Panza, M. Kouteva. Modelling of Stress and Seismicity in the South-Eastern Carpathians: A Basis for Seismic Risk Estimation; A. Ismail-Zadeh. Earthquake Loss Estimation for India Based on Macroeconomic Indicators; P. Dunbar, et al. Monitors and Methods for Investigation of Submarine Landslides, Seawater Intrusion and Contaminated Groundwater Discharge as Coastal Hazards; L. Lobkovsky, et al. Risk of Collective Youth Violence in French Suburbs: A Clinical Scale of Evaluation, an Alert System; L. Bui Trong. * Abstracts: Lessons from Macrophagic Myofasciitis: Towards Definition of a Vaccine Adjuvant-Related Syndrome; R. Gherardi. Flood Risk Management in the Upper Tisza Basin in Hungary: A System Analytical Approach; J. Linnerooth-Bayer, et al. Volcanoes and Cities; G. Heiken. Geo-Risk Management Practices in the Asia Pacific Region; A. Jayawardena. Values, Interests and Symbolic Politics in a Nuclear Waste Disposal