20th World conference on disaster management (WCDM) - Canada
The World conference on disaster management in Toronto will provide educational workshops, plenary and concurrent sessions that will be covering various topics such as:
- Climate change
Disaster Management professionals should be equipped to understand factors and repercussions that impact business and communities alike. Climate change is no longer a vague threat. The effects of a changing climate are already being felt around the world: powerful hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves, increasing forest-fire counts and blizzards.
What can Disaster Management professionals do? What are the economic effects? What type of planning should the DM professionals be doing? What can you do, if anything, to influence politicians and business leaders?
- Natural disasters
The 19th WCDM will discuss real events and lessons learned that will help you with your own disaster preparedness plan to identify available resources and strategies to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters.
- Community planning and preparedness
Every community can be easily disrupted by an emergency. This can seriously affect the lives, economy and environment of its residents. This could take the form of a severe storm, flood, forest or structural fire, chemical spill, pandemic outbreak or similar disasters.
Are you prepared to respond and provide help to your community when a disaster or crisis occurs? Do you have the resources, tools and plan to respond? Do your community residents know what to do when a disaster or crisis occurs?