Natural Disasters and Societal Safety

Preface

King Harald V, DNVA President Kirsti Strøm Bull and

Deputy Minister Hans J. Røsjorde as symposium is about to start.

This volume contains the written versions of the lectures presented at the symposium

“Natural Disasters and Societal Safety” held on 28 April 2015. The symposium was

jointly organised and funded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

(DNVA), the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) and The

Research Council of Norway (RCN). The programme for the symposium can be

found on the next pages.

The organising committee for the symposium consisted of Professors Roy H.

Gabrielsen and John Grue from the University of Oslo, Technical Director Suzanne

Lacasse from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute and Divisional Director Fridtjof

Unander of the Research Council of Norway.

The contributions of all the authors in this volume are gratefully

acknowledged. Mr Adrian Read from the University of Oslo edited all of the texts

and translated some of them. Mr Eirik Lislerud fromDNVA took care of the practical

arrangements, while Mr Lars Thomas Dyrhaug and Ms Ingrid Venås, both from

NTVA, helped with the preparation of the final manuscript. These contributions are

gratefully acknowledged.

Oslo, January 2016

Roy H. Gabrielsen

Suzanne Lacasse