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Disaster
Mitigation in Asia
Issue No. 9
24 December 2003
A. From
the Region
B. Calls for Submission
C. Conferences &
Courses
D. Useful Resources
USEFUL
RESOURCES
New
Urban Disaster Risk Management (UDRM) Website launched
The
new UDRM website is launched 1 December 2003.
You may visit the website from the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
(ADPC) home page
<http://www.adpc.net>
or go directly to <http://www.adpc.net/udrm/default.htm>
At Risk: natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters
A new
edition of the above publication by Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie, Terry
Cannon and Ian Davis has just been published. You can see more details
at: <https://ecommerce.tandf.co.uk/catalogue/DetailedDisplay.asp?ISBN=0415252164
&ResourceCentre=ROUTLEDGE&RedirectPage=PerformSearch%2Easp&curpage=1>
Statement on the linkages between disaster risk reduction and climate
change
At
the ninth session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-9) in Milan, Italy, UN/ISDR
made a statement concerning the linkages between the disaster risk
reduction and climate change agendas.
To
download the statement, please refer to <http://www.unisdr.org>
For
further information on COP-9, please refer to <http://unfccc.int/cop9/index.html>
Background Paper on Information Systems and Disaster Risk Reduction
UN/ISDR
has prepared a background paper contributing to the first phase
of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Geneva
(10-12 December 2003) entitled Information Systems and Disaster
Risk Reduction.
To
download the background paper, please refer to <http://www.unisdr.org>
For
further information on the WSIS, please refer to <http://www.itu.int/wsis/>
IATF-DR meeting documentation available online
The
8th meeting of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction
(IATF/DR) was held 5-6 November 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. Key
recommendations of the meeting included development of more national
platforms for disaster reduction; strengthened regional cooperation
in Africa; and advancement of preparations for the World Conference
on Disaster Reduction to be held in Kobe-Hyogo in January 2005.
All
documentation related to the meeting is available at <http://www.unisdr.org/eng/task%20force/tf-meeting-8th-eng.htm>
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