Meetings and conferences
Durban
South Africa
4th Biennial Conference of the Southern Africa Society for Disaster Reduction
Organizer(s)
North-West University
Durban University of Technology
Format
In person
Venue
Coastlands Umhlanga Hotel and Convention Centre, Umhlanga Rocks
45–47 Dr. Pixley
Kaseme St
Date
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The fourth Biennial SASDiR Conference will explore practices to 'avoid disaster risk creation' as a compliment to a DRR approach. The aim of the conference is to harness its broad, interdisciplinary expertise on this topic by gathering academics, practitioners and any other stakeholder in disaster risk and disaster-related fields. SASDiR mainly focuses on the SADC region however values perspectives from all over the world.
The conference sub-themes are as follows:
- Urban risk and development;
- Climate-smart agriculture;
- Eco-system based DRR;
- Trans-boundary disaster risk management;
- Socio-ecological resilience;
- Climatology;
- Natural resource management and DRR;
- Hazard governance;
- Intergovernmental relations;
- Environmental management;
- Community resilience;
- Public health and education;
- Risk creation as a trans-disciplinary issue;
- Media and communication in DRR
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Themes
Climate change
Environment and ecosystems
Gender
Urban risk and planning
Governance
Preparedness
Food security and agriculture
Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region
Angola
Botswana
Lesotho
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
South Africa
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Africa