1st annual conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management
Losses of human lives and economic losses from natural disasters have increased dramatically in the last decades. Especially developing regions are highly vulnerable to natural disasters. The objective of this conference, similar to the previous events, is to contribute to the development and to the implementation of an integrated disaster risk management approach with the emphasis on sharing the experiences obtained under different cultural and socio-economic settings.
The reduction of escalating losses from natural disasters is essential for sustainable development. Considering that the poorest groups of the society suffer disproportionally from natural hazards IDRiM strategies have to be promoted which contribute to a socially balanced development.
Objectives and scopes
Losses of human lives and economic losses from natural disasters have increased dramatically in the last decades. Especially developing regions are highly vulnerable to natural disasters. The objective of this conference, similar to the previous events, is to contribute to the development and to the implementation of an integrated disaster risk management approach with the emphasis on sharing the experiences obtained under different cultural and socio-economic settings. The addressed audience should include scientists from different disaster related disciplines as well as practitioners, representatives of NGOs and policy makers from different regions.
The reduction of escalating losses from natural disasters is essential for sustainable development. Considering that the poorest groups of the society suffer disproportionally from natural hazards IDRiM strategies have to be promoted which contribute to a socially balanced development.
Themes and topics
The themes of the conference include
- Global Change and Vulnerability
-- Natural hazards such as floods and droughts, land slides, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires
-- Climate change and extreme weather event
- Man made hazards due to land use changes, urbanization and industrialisation
- Integrated disaster risk management and sustainable human development
-- Disaster risk assessment
-- Concern assessment and participatory disaster risk management
-- Stakeholder involvement and communication
-- Disaster vulnerability assessment
-- Disaster prevention and mitigation
-- Disaster recovery and reconstruction
-- Enhancing resilience
- Disaster impacts in different cultural settings: institutions, legislation, socio-economic conditions
-- Long-term local and global disaster impacts: physical, environmental, social
-- Disaster risk reduction: funding, capacity building, measuring performance
-- Economics, Cost/benefit analysis, Cost efficiency
-- local, regional and national economic impacts
-- Legislation and IDRiM
- Industrial risk management
-- Risk assessment and management
-- NaTechs
-- Business continuity
- Disaster safety nets
-- Financing risk (e.g., catastrophe insurance)
-- informal (kinship, livelihood diversification)
-- Microinsurance
- The science of implementation
-- Institutional / organizational arrangements
-- Risk governance
-- Policy for integrated disaster risk management
-- Lessons learned from extreme events (e.g., volcanic ash cloud, oil spill in Gulf of Mexico)
-- Disaster reduction hyperbase (DRH)
Planned accompanying workshops
- Spatio-temporal scale issues of disasters, impacts, and management strategies
- Implementation strategies for IDRiM
- Natech Risk Assessment and Management
- Further proposals and volunteers for workshop organisation are welcomed
Please send asap a short proposal including the workshop theme, topics and speakers, to the conference secretariat IDRiM2010@interconvention.at