UNESCO-JASTIP Joint Symposium on
Intra-Regional Water Security and Disaster Management
The 3rd Symposium on JASTIP Disaster Prevention InternationalCooperation Research (JASTIP-WP4 Symposium)
15 & 16 November 2017, SEDA Hotel, Vertis North, Quezon City, Metro Manila,
The Philippines
The Japan-ASEAN Science, Technology and Innovation Platform (JASTIP) is a research project fundedby the Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP) of Japan Science andTechnology Agency (JST), in order to promote international cooperative research that can contribute to
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It has three research areas: Energy and Environment,
Bioresources & Biodiversity, and Disaster Prevention. The Working Package 4 (WP4) is its DisasterPrevention research group for implementation of disaster-related research in ASEAN region under theJASTIP project.
To date, two JASTIP-WP4 Symposia have been held (March 2016 and March 2017) in Kyoto University,
Japan. This year, at the occasion of the 25th UNESCO-IHP (International Hydrological Programme)
Regional Steering Committee (RSC) meeting to be held in Manila, Philippines, on 13-16 November
2017, UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Kyoto University and the Philippines
Water Partnership will jointly organize the 3rd JASTIP-WP4 Symposium as the UNESCO-JASTIP Joint
Symposium on Intra-Regional Water Security and Disaster Management.
Expected participants: JASTIP-WP4 members, UNESCO-IHP RSC members, as well as researchers,practitioners, and students from Asia and the Pacific.
Call for Abstracts: The UNESCO-JASTIP Joint Symposium invites researchers from Asia and thePacific to submit abstracts for presentation. The Symposium will feature a range of exciting scientificlectures and discussions as well as networking opportunities with experts, researchers and practitioners
from the UNESCO-IHP and JASTIP networks. The extended abstract should be written in English andexplain briefly: the research background, objectives, methods, and important findings. The extended
abstract should be two pages and submitted by email to unescojastip2017@gmail.com no later than 16
October 2017, and should follow the template attached herewith.
The scope of the UNESCO-JASTIP Symposium covers topics relating to water security and/or disastermanagement. Water Security Responses to Local, Regional and Global Challenges is the theme of theUNESCO-IHP Eighth Phase (IHP-VIII http://en.unesco.org/themes/water-security/hydrology/IHP-VIIIwater-security ), while Disaster Management here refers not only water-related disasters but also otherdisasters common in ASEAN countries such as volcano eruption, earthquake, tsunami, high tide andstrong wind caused by typhoons and cyclones, and haze caused by peatland or forest fires. The
Symposium welcomes abstracts relating to any of the above topics.

Provisional organization of Sessions (all in plenary)Day 1: Water Security
Morning Session 1
Opening Session
Keynote lectures
Morning Session 2

Afternoon Session 1

Afternoon Session 2

Precipitation
FloodDrought
Debris Flow & Landslide
Water Quality
IWRM
Transboundary River
Basin Management &Water Governance
Ecohydrology
SDG 6
UNESCO-JASTIP Dinner

Day 2 : Disaster Management
Geo-hazards: Volcano &Morning Session 1
Earthquake
Strong Winds
Haze
Preparedness:
Morning Session 2
Forecasting & Early
Warning System
Post-Disaster Recovery
Disaster Governance
Afternoon Session 1
Panel Discussion

Afternoon Session 2

Note: Session composition above subject to paper abstracts submitted.

Closing Session

INSTRUCTION FOR TYPESETTING EXTENDED ABSTRACT
USING MS-WORD
FIRST AUTHOR1, SECOND AUTHOR2, N-TH AUTHOR3
Affiliations: Affiliation details should be differentiated with superscripted alpha characters placed to the left of the affiliation.
Please provide only the email address of the presenting author after the list of affiliations (e.g. email: s.khan@unesco.org)

INTRODUCTION (background and purpose)
These instructions are written in the format required for extended abstract of the UNESCO-JASTIP Joint
Symposium on Intra-Regional Water Security and Disaster Management. The abstract should summarize thecontext, content and conclusions of the paper not less than 1000 words. It should not contain any references ordisplayed equations. Typeset the abstract in 9pt Times Roman with line spacing of 10 pt. The abstract should notexceed two A4 pages. The background section should be the shortest part of the abstract and should very briefly
outline the following information: 1) What is already known about the subject, related to the paper in question; and2) What is not known about the subject and hence what the study intended to examine (or what the paper seeks
to present). The background can be framed in just 2-3 sentences, with each sentence describing a different aspectof the information referred to above; sometimes, even single sentence may suffice. The purpose of the study
should be a clear and accurate statement of the scientific purpose/ objectives of the research. The purpose of
the study statement helps the subject assess the importance of the study relative to individual values. The
statement should include not only the immediate purpose of the study, but also any larger, eventual purpose. If
the study involves deception or the withholding of information as a necessary and justifiable research strategy, thepurpose of the study statement should be written in such a way whereby the least possible deception and/orwithholding of information occurs.
METHODS
The methods section contains enough information to enable the reader to understand what was done, and how.
Carelessly written methods sections lack information about important issues such as sample size, numbers ofpatients in different groups, doses of medications, and duration of the study.
RESULTSThe results section is the most important part of the abstract and nothing should compromise its range and quality.
This is because readers who peruse an abstract do so to learn about the findings of the study. The results section
should therefore be the longest part of the abstract and should contain as much detail about the findings as thejournal word count permits.
CONCLUSION
This section should contain the most important take-home message of the study, expressed in a few precisely
worded sentences. Usually, the finding highlighted here relates to the primary outcome measure; however, otherimportant or unexpected findings should also be mentioned. It is also customary, but not essential, for the authors
to express an opinion about the theoretical or practical implications of the findings, or the importance of theirfindings for the field. Despite its necessary brevity, this section has the most impact on the average reader because
readers generally trust authors and take their assertions at face value. For this reason, the conclusions should
also be scrupulously honest; and authors should not claim more than their data demonstrate. The conclusions
have to be based on the facts in evidence and should be limited to minimal speculation about the significance ofthe work.
Keywords:
Please provide 3 to 5 keywords separated by commas. The term ‘Keywords:’ should bebolded. The keywords should not be in bold. Keywords should be separated by commas. Keywords should belisted in Sentence case (first keyword with capital first letter and remaining keywords in lower case).

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For the title, try not to use more than three lines. Typeset the title in 10pt Times New Roman, uppercase and boldface