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Displaying 15 of about 45 resultsAs we approach the 25th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, it is time to ask the question, “Is California better prepared for a catastrophic event?” and “Are there new technology solutions that can make a difference in saving lives and property?”.
Since the Loma Prieta event, California’s population, physical infrastructure, and GDP, have all i…
The IDRC Davos 2014 will address the numerous interconnected, complex and emerging risks today's societies are faced with. Environmental, technical, social and economic risks are often closely linked and can result in successive impact. Risks and disasters explored at the IDRC Davos 2014 include, amongst others, natural hazards, failures of critical inf…
An international conference on the topic ‘Glacial Lake Outburst Floods – Experience from Bhutan” is planned under the NAPA follow-up project “Reducing Climate Change-induced Risks and Vulnerabilities of GLOF (2008 – mid-2013)” to further facilitate sharing of project lessons and application of these in future interventions in Bhutan and other GLOF prone…
Join the 2012 EERI annual meeting & national earthquake conference to:
• Learn the many lessons from recent and historic earthquakes and how to apply them to reduce future impacts and build resiliency.
• Look into the vulnerability of aging large infrastructure.
• Exchange key information on tools for earthquake risk reduction.
• Learn from success…
The conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
Over the years the need has surfaced for a more Caribbean focused conference on all possible disaster hazards. This conference seeks to bring together government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector for information exchange, dialogue and development of methods and practice to reduce the harmful impacts of hazards and disasters in the Cari…
About the Symposium:
The 5th International Symposium on the Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion (ESG5) will be hold on August 2016 and take place in Taipei, Taiwan. The symposium will discuss the site effect related topics especially focus on main theme which is “Challenges of Applying Ground Motion Simulation to Seismology and Earthquake Engi…
This Research Advisory Forum (RAF) will focus on the physical science and engineering projects of the BNHCRC research program. Clusters presenting will be:
Coastal management
Monitoring and prediction
Next generation fire modelling
Prescribed burning and catchment management
Hardening buildings and infrastructure
The RAF is an activity that sup…
The Tsunami Society will hold its 4th International Tsunami Symposium in Toronto, Canada, July 25-29, 2010, in conjunction and co-sponsorship with the 2010 US-CANADA joint conference on earthquake engineering, “Reaching Beyond Borders.”
The stated purpose of the Ninth U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering - which the Tsu…
The IFIP Domain Committee on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (DCITDRR) has the honor to announce the First IFIP Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (ITDRR 2016), November 16 - 18th, 2016, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
ITDRR-2016 provides an international forum for researchers an…
What is GET-2016?
First held in 2007 with the title, “Global Forum on Effective Use of Telecommunications/ICT for Disaster Management: Saving Lives”, the ITU Global Forum on Emergency Telecommunications has evolved to become the main global event focusing on emergency telecommunications and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Forum brings tog…
The Science Summit, organized by the Commission for Atmospheric Sciences, will take place in Bali, Indonesia from 20 to 22 October 2017. The Summit will provide an opportunity to shape the WMO research agenda, building on the closer collaboration between weather, climate, water and environment research. An additional focus of the Summit is to close the…
The Aid & International Development Forum would like to announce that the 2nd annual Aid & Development Africa Summit will be held in Nairobi, Kenya at Safari Park Hotel on the 28th February - 1st March 2017.
The Aid & Development Africa Summit 2017 is an exclusive platform uniting regional and global expertise and offering a unique opportun…
The Climate Change Commission (CCC), through Project Climate Twin Phoenix, the City Government of Iligan, and the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) will be conducting a training on the use of the Climate Change Exposure Database (ClimEx.DB), which is a tool designed to help communities and cities in planning their land u…
With continuing economic stresses, developing technologies and emerging requirements facing them, the water resources practitioner today has a tremendous need to understand and plan for the technologies of tomorrow, to build for the things that are emerging as drivers of water resources practice in the near and long term future. This Congress has been c…