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Displaying 15 of about 15 resultsThe 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…
The importance of reducing exposure to disasters took on a personal hue for the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström.
The envoy had been due to present the Secretary-General's Report on the Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to the UN General Assembly in the first w…
Referring to the March 11 Japanese triple disaster and humanitarian crisis, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency Director General Helena Lindberg raises the issue of 'complex megadisaster' as reminder of the extent of our own vulnerability. In her contribution to PublicService.co.uk, she highlights some of the important lessons drawn for these events, as…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
2009 Sasakawa award call for nominations now open
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction. Nominees should be individuals and institutions from around the world who have contributed to building the resilience of nations and communities to natural hazards through innovative practices and outstanding initiatives. Nomin…
As Japan's national and local governments continue to review and approve master rebuilding plans and reconstruction blueprints, Curtis S. Chin, writing for The Japan Times, poses the question: "Will Japan's politicians and bureaucrats come together and heed a simple lesson that other policymakers faced with massive rebuilding efforts have learned before…
This conference will specially focus on the advances made in the earthquake engineering. Eminent speakers will be invited to talk about the various aspects of engineering related with the earthquake. The participants will also get to learn about the updates regarding earthquake engineering. Exposure of various opportunities will be done in the conferenc…
WCDRR highlights for Sunday, 15 March 2015, issue #2:
The third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction opened on Saturday in Sendai, Japan, attended by approximately 20 Heads of State and Government, many country delegations, and 8,000 participants. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe and many other dignitaries…
ISCRAM-Asia 2014 conference is anchored on the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 10th (IOTX) Year Anniversary Convention. The six-day long IOTX event comprises a combination of expert and technical workshops, a public lecture, and this conference. IOTX events are free for ISCRAM-ASIA-2014 conference participants.
A list of IOTX events:
-The Common Alerting Pr…
This book is the latest in a series of volumes addressing natural disasters, and how their impact can be reduced by effective capacity building and prevention strategies.
A fully illustrated, 200-page book, Risk Wise offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in light of the increasing threat of natural dis…
Background
Under this project “Learning from Mega Disasters”, a series of interactive Knowledge-Sharing (KS) sessions will be organized in collaboration via videoconferencing system with GDLN. This is aimed at:
• Sharing initial findings and lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake with practitioners throughout the world and
• Exchanging views amo…
This book consolidates a set of 36 knowledge notes highlighting key lessons learned in seven disaster risk management (DRM) thematic clusters: (i) structural measures; (ii) nonstructural measures; (iii) emergency response; (iv) reconstruction planning; (v) hazard and risk information and decision making; (vi) the economics of disaster risk, risk managem…
This document includes a set of 32 notes grouped into six thematic clusters: (i) structural measures; (ii) non-structural measures; (iii) emergency response; (iv) reconstruction planning; (v) hazard and risk information and decision making; and (vi) economics of disaster risk, risk management, and risk financing. The notes are collecting and analyzing i…
In this publication the Government of Tamil Nadu gives details regarding rehabilitation and the reconstruction programmes undertaken to revive coastal communities affected by the Tsunami in 2004. With a view to reduce the vulnerability of the people to future calamities, the following specific measures were taken:
- the houses being built have disaster…
As General Assembly holds thematic debate, Secretary-General urges governments to integrate disaster risk reduction into development agendas
Faced with socio-economic fallout from increasingly frequent and severe disasters, Governments must invest in disaster risk reduction and weave it into their development agendas in order to save more lives and bui…