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31 October, 2008
Disaster
Mitigation in Asia
Issue No. 4
30 May 2003
A. From
the Region
B. From the Globe
C. Conferences & Courses
D. Useful Resources
CONFERENCES
AND COURSES
Cities
on Volcanoes 3, 14 - 18 July 2003, Hilo, Hawaii
Cities on Volcanoes
3 provides a forum to discuss the impacts of volcanic activity on
society. It is multidisciplinary in focus with themes and sessions
planned to bring together workers who share common interests but
who historically have had only limited interactions with each other.
The meeting aims to develop collaborative work in emergency management,
urban and rural planning, education, volcanology, sociology and
psychology.
For
more information visit <http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~cov3>
or e-mail <cov3@hawaii.edu>
Fifth
Course on Flood Risk Management (FRM-5), 15 - 26 September 2003,
Beijing, China
FRM-5 provides
a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to flood risk management.
The course aims to provide a common understanding of flood risk
management applied across all sectors and among all levels of current
and potential participants in the flood risk reduction process.
FRM-5 is organized
by ADPC and the Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction
(CDR) of the Ministry of Water Resources in China. The Course fee
is USD2,000. All participants will stay at the China Hall of Science
and Technology. The daily room rate is US$ 32.00 for single occupancy
and US$ 17.50 per person for double occupancy.
For
more information, visit <http://www.adpc.net/training/te-frm5.html>
or e-mail Mr. Zorobabel Zuniga <zbabel@adpc.net>,
Thirteenth
World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1-6 August 2004, Vancouver,
Canada
The conference
aims to enable dialogue among the leading researchers and practitioners
from a broad range of disciplines working to reduce the devastating
effects of earthquakes on our society and environment.
The last date
for submitting abstracts to the conference is 31 May 2003. Volunteers
to review the abstracts during June, July, August 2003 are also
being sought by the organizers.
For
more information, visit <http://www.13wcee.com>
and join the conference's mailing list online or e-mail <13wcee@venuewest.com>.
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