Tsunami Society

The Tsunami Society, also known as the International Tsunami Society, is a professional society for the research of and dissemination of knowledge about tsunamis. The society was founded in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1982. The society sponsors professional level meetings with local government officials to promote public safety awareness, disaster preparedness and the implementation of early warning systems. Every two years, the society holds its International Scientific Symposium, where researchers and scientists attend sessions at the symposia.

The society publishes an open access, international journal known as Science of Tsunami Hazards (ISSN 8755-6839), which is available to the scientific community free of charge. Papers submitted to the journal receive peer review and the journal archives include data, research results and references on tsunamis. All past issues of the journal for the past three decades are archived at the society’s website, the U.S. Library of Congress and at a mirror site at the U. S. Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. The society’s journal Science of Tsunami Hazards was included in the international academic journal database DOAJ maintained by the University of Lund in Sweden. To facilitate cross-referencing and searching, all past journals are archived into this open access database by author, title, abstract and keywords. In addition, Science of Tsunami Hazards is being archived at the National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague. SPARC Europe Europe and DOAJ have entered an agreement about introducing a certification scheme for open access journals - the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals.

Society

A society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.

Insofar as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would not otherwise be possible on an individual basis; both individual and social (common) benefits can thus be distinguished, or in many cases found to overlap.

A society can also consist of like-minded people governed by their own norms and values within a dominant, larger society. This is sometimes referred to as a subculture, a term used extensively within criminology.

Society (disambiguation)

Society is a grouping of individuals which are united by a network of social relations, traditions and may have distinctive culture and institutions.

Society may also refer to:

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Society (play)

Society was an 1865 comedy drama by Thomas William Robertson regarded as a milestone in Victorian drama because of its realism in sets, costume, acting and dialogue. Unusually for that time, Robertson both wrote and directed the play, and his innovative writing and stage direction inspired George Bernard Shaw and W. S. Gilbert.

Origins

The play originally ran at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Liverpool, under the management of Mr A. Henderson, opening on 8 May 1865. It was recommended to Effie Wilton, the manager of the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London's West End, by H. J. Byron, where it ran from 11 November 1865 to 4 May 1866 Robertson found fame with his new comedy, which included a scene that fictionalized the Fun gang, who frequented the Arundel Club, the Savage Club, and especially Evans's café, where they had a table in competition with the Punch 'Round table'. The play marked the London debut of Squire Bancroft, who went on to marry Effie Wilton in 1867 and become her co-manager.