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Displaying 15 of about 66 resultsThis briefing on Municipal Planning and GIS - part of the Local Development Dialogues - aims at sharing practical examples of the potential for using geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool to support municipal planning and decision-making processes. Using GIS approach offers much more than static mapping and greatly facilitates the understanding…
Following the highly successful inaugural Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Europe, the next conference will take place in the Netherlands, where leading stakeholders from industry, operators, agencies and governments to debate and collaborate on securing Europe’s critical infrastructure.
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Working together in Europe and the Mediterranean for the prevention of disasters, preparedness and response:
The objective of this plan is to provide a political and technical instrument containing priorities and guidelines for the action of the European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) for the next five years, improving its effectiv…
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…
As the premium global geospatial industry event, Geospatial World Forum will bring the stakeholders —solution providers, policy makers as well as users— to a single platform, providing unparalleled opportunities for discussion, debate and interaction. National Governments and Public Administrations are facing many serious societal, economic and environm…
The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM’2017) will be held in Münster, Germany from 11th of December to 13th of December 2017. ICT-DM’2017 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning and disaster management and recovery, in o…
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Hosted by the Aston Centre for Research into Safety and Security (CRISIS), the International Conference on Emergency Preparedness (InterCEPt) aims to facilitate the exchange of academic research, innovations and best operational practices in the management of emergency preparedness. InterCEPt provides a unique opportunity for academics, practi…
This National Review summarizes the efforts, made between 2009-2011 by the National Directorate General for Disaster Management of the Ministry of the Interior, as the national focal point of ISDR for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), in order to reduce adverse effects of disasters.
The report outlines the Hungarian national c…
Las catástrofes naturales generaron un impacto de 95.000 millones de euros en España entre 1986 y 2016, en una hipótesis de riesgo medio, según un informe del Ilustre Colegio de Geólogos (ICOG), que pide que las legislaciones autonómicas obliguen a realizar mapas de riesgos naturales con el objetivo de evitar catástrofes, informó Ecoticias.
Según el re…
Con el propósito de elaborar una fotografía de la situación de riesgo en Centro América ante los fenómenos naturales, profesionales de organismos regionales de prevención y de la Comisión Europea comenzaron ayer una reunión para analizar las prioridades de acción que se debe seguir en el área, informó Prensa Libre.
El ejercicio servirá a la comisión…
The 14th INTERPRAEVENT Congress will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, in May 2020. The event will span a wide spectrum of stakeholders within all fields of natural hazard risk reduction, and welcome a variety of contributions from research to practical applications, policy making, insurance and economic aspects.
Focus will be on integrated manage…
The Mayor of Nis, Mr. Zoran Perišic, and the Mayor of Strumica, Mr. Zoran Zaev, both oversaw events that emphasized reducing climate and disaster risk as a priority.
'Today I would like to send a strong message to everyone in the community in which we live that we really need to get ready and always focus most of our energy in terms of personal readine…
The summer school will introduce various approaches to risk prevention and management and highlight the importance of measures, risk perception and communication to risk governance and the existing international initiatives and policies in disaster risk reduction. These concepts will be analyzed in the context of water-related hazards such as floods and…
The Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) is celebrating 40 years of successful cooperation as it prepares to meet growing demands from a world which is increasingly vulnerable to the impact of weather and climate.
Created in 1972 by Europe, Japan, USA, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the CGMS has contributed to signif…
The Sixth Bulgarian‐Austrian Seminar (6th BAS) takes interest in the areas, including but not limited to:
Governance and policy instruments
EC ECHO Research Project DAMSAFE
Flood hazard analysis
Flood defenses analysis
Flood consequences and risk analysis
Flood hazard and risk mapping
Flood risk management
The seminar will take place over two…