International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development (DRSD)

The international symposium on “Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development” will be from 7 -8 March, 2019 and is scheduled to be held at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. This event is one of the initiatives of the ProSPER.Net project.The programme will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, technical session, poster presentation and academic exhibition.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction calls to increase awareness on disaster risk reduction, resilience and the implementation of policies to prevent new risks. The sharing of resources, knowledge and mutual learning approaches are important ingredients of a resilient community. 

The symposium will also provide an opportunity to develop a higher educational institution platform on DRR in order to address the cross-cutting issues of disaster resilience and sustainable development, and also understanding regional challenges that result from complex problems generated by natural hazards and human induced threats.