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Disaster Risk Management
Rise in extreme weather events fuelling demand for UN disaster management expertise
23 December 2008
'This ensures that more of the world's disaster managers are available to the international community to share their valuable knowledge and expertise on how to prepare for and respond to disasters' said OCHA's Arjun Katoch...
- 1st Congress on health and disastersCLAMED - 12-16 Oct 2009, Havana City (Cuba)
- Disaster management 2009Wessex Institute of Technology - 23-25 Sep 2009, New Forest (United Kingdom)
- 19th World conference on disaster managementCCEP - 21-24 Jun 2009, Toronto (Canada)
- Disaster Management and Humanitarian AssistanceUH
- Emergency ManagementFleming College
- Disaster ManagementGlobal Fields Inst
- Responding to earthquakes 2008: learning from earthquake relief and recovery operationsALNAP, ProVention Consortium - 2008
- Potentiel de l'assurance climatique basée sur un indice pour la gestion de risques de sécheresse dans le secteur de l'agriculture au SahelIAVS - 2008
- Disaster risk reduction strategies and risk management practices: critical elements for adaptation to climate changeIASC, UNISDR - 2008
Online Resources
- A GDRC special feature on environmental management and disaster risk reduction
- DKKV: Database of documentation on EU disaster preparedeness
- East Asia and Pacific: A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening DRM
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- Institute for Business and Home Safety: disaster safety portal
- Knowledge sharing on disaster risk reduction
- OIKOS: interactive game and information on hazard impact, mechanism, mitigation and simulation (in many languages)
- Sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region
- The gender and disaster sourcebook
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