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Displaying 15 of about 26 resultsSince 1975, the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado has hosted the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Today, the Workshop brings together international, federal, state, and local mitigation and emergency management officials and planning professionals; representatives of nonprofit, private sector, and humani…
The School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam is organizing the Disaster, Risk and Vulnerability Conference - 2020 (DRVC 2020). In the present COVID-19 scenario the conference will be conducted through Virtual Mode on focused themes during 9–10 October and 16–17 October 2020.
The conference is in continuation of th…
Hurricane Maria reminded the world of the fragility of Puerto Rico’s housing and the critical infrastructure that supports housing and residents. This training series is built upon The Keep Safe Guide to Building Resilience in Island Communities developed by Enterprise Community Partners in partnership with the Puerto Rico Builders Association…
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Asia and the Pacific (Affiliated to the United Nations) are launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Geospatial Applications for Disaster Risk Management”. This MOOC is a free and flexible online training programme available…
Online Conference: When Disaster meets Conflict
Lessons on Disaster Governance and Humanitarian Action
When disasters happen in a conflict-setting, responses involve many state and non-state actors that try to reach affected populations. Who are these actors and do they work together? Who can affect communities' trust to work for their interests? How…
You are cordially invited to participate in the Webinar on 15th Anniversary of Kashmir Earthquake-2005 Challenges, Resilience & Mitigation, jointly organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India and The Institution of Engineers (India), J&K State Centre, in collaboration with Divisional…
This conference is First of its kind on Disaster Risk Reduction focusing on the role of Civil Engineering in building Disaster Resilient Society. This conference envisages providing a platform for researchers to exchange knowledge on disaster risk reduction primarily focusing on civil engineering perspectives and cross-cutting issues. Research and innov…
Context
Although COVID-19 affects people across the world, the informal sector – low-income households often dependent on informal livelihoods and the informal micro and small enterprises – are disproportionately susceptible to its risks and adverse impacts. The difference in socio-economic factors, such as the lacking social protection and financial a…
Congresso Internacional 40 anos do sismo dos Açores de 1980
Start Date: 06 Oct 2020
End Date: 07 Oct 2020
Country: Portugal
Location of event: Lisboa
Full virtual conference through ZOOM Venue
The “International meeting on the 40th anniversary of the 1980 earthquake: a week of reflection, (40/80)” will take place at the Angra do Heroísmo Cultural…
The Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) in partnership with the National Disaster Management Organization, the Africa Youth Advisory Board on Disaster Risk Reduction (AYAB DRR), and Accra office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) present the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDR) quiz compe…
Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism (RRAU) conference offers a perspective of designing and planning adaptive cities to sustain a life that is suitable to users, providing them with an improved quality of life. This is to say that architecture carries the responsibility of making a city more flexible and resilient and summarizes the scop…
Social Vulnerability and Resilience (SVR) modelling is an important aspect of not just understanding risk but also in reducing disaster risk at any given scale. SVR modelling can give disaster management professionals, especially at the country level, the ability to anticipate an impact that goes beyond physical damage or casualties from earthquakes.
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Join GEM’s Vitor Silva and Nicole Paul at Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s (EERI) webinar on Earthquakes in Pandemics: Experiences from Earthquakes in Europe, Thursday, November 19 at 11:00 am PT / 8:00 pm CET
This upcoming webinar will feature a panel discussion on the impacts of earthquakes on infection rates and actions immediately follow…
The GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences organises annually International Training Courses on 'Seismology and Seismic Hazard Assessment'.
The training courses provide theoretical fundamentals and practical training in applied seismology, for geoscientists and engineers from earthquake-prone developing countries.
The program is particularly…
Course overview
The Earthquake Vulnerability Reduction Course (EVRC) has been designed to support the creation of earthquake resilient societies. With rich experiences in providing similar training courses on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) at the international level, ADPC provides a model training experience in this course by integrating study materials…