4th Biennial Conference of the Southern Africa Society for Disaster Reduction
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