Dr Mihoko Sakurai, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Integrated emergency Management (CIEM), University of Agder, Norway, got the best paper award at the Electronic Government track of Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-49) for the paper “How do organizational processes recover following a disaster? – A capital resiliency model for disaster preparedness”.

The paper was presented in the Resilience Against Crises and Disaster minitrack chaired by Prof. Jose J. Gonzalez, Elsa Negre and Emma Spiro. Mihoko is the leading author in the paper (co-authors Richard Watson, University of Georgia, US, and Jiro Kokuryo, Keio University, Japan).

Mihoko Sakurai joined the Smart Mature Resilience project 1 September 2015.

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