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Disaster Mitigation in Asia
Issue No. 13 
30 April 2004

A. From the Globe
B. Calls for Submission 
C. Conferences & Courses
D. Useful Resources

USEFUL RESOURCES

ADPC Training 2004 Brochure available online

A comprehensive list of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center course offerings and workshops is now available online at <http://www.adpc.net/news/tempalte2.pdf>

Disaster Management Conference Brochures Available

The full brochures of the 14th World Conference on Disaster Management on 20-23 June 2004 in Toronto, Canada are now out!

To obtain copies, send email to <coord@wcdm.org>

or download from the Website at <http://www.wcdm.org/>

Education in Situations of Emergency, Crisis and Reconstruction:

UNESCO Strategy Produced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Educational Organization (UNESCO), this document presents UNESCO's strategy for emergency education, aimed at bringing education to the displaced, to people in countries affected by chronic low-level conflict, to populations in post-conflict situations and to those affected by natural disasters.

Available online at <http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC14362>.

Planning and Financial Protection to Survive Disasters

Published by the Inter-American Development Bank, this publication distinguishes between risk management-which calls for prior planning and investments to reduce vulnerability-and emergency response, which involves after-the-fact expenditures. This technical paper deals with two important areas: identifying and reducing risk by integrating prevention and mitigation into development plans and financial protection of costly investments.

Available online at <http://www.iadb.org/sds/publication/publication_3108_e.htm>.

Tropical Cyclones Programme report

The final report of the 31st session of WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 1-6 March 2004 is now out!

Available online <http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/TCP/reports.html>

Wildfires: Beware and Prepare - Science Teacher Kit

Developed by the Firewise Communities and Lifetime Learning Systems, this toolkit will help teachers explain wildfire hazards to students and educate them about how to protect themselves, their families, their homes, and their communities.Students will learn how wildfires start, how they can be prevented, what makes a home or community susceptible to wildfires, and safety features that can be implemented at home or in the community to help reduce the risk and damage of wildfires.

For more information, visit <https://secure.donet.com/firewise/audiovisual/index.htm> and scroll down until you reach "resources for the science teacher."

All about the 2003 Bam earthquake

The International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES) features the 2003 Bam earthquake in their web site.

Reports and new documents are now available online at <http://www.iiees.ac.ir/English/Bam_report_english.html>.

Disasters - Community Information

The Emergency Management Australia (EMA) develops this page which gathers useful information on preparedness and response to all disasters and emergency situations, outlines emergency management systems and services in Australia and provides links to other relevant sites.

To view the site, go to <http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emaInternet.nsf/AllDocs/ RWP8068B438E9360F4FCA256C8700361BAF?OpenDocument>.

CSD Partnerships online database

The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) has launched a new on-line database of CSD-registered partnerships for sustainable development. The database aims toincrease the sharing of experience and knowledge required to implement sustainable development practices, as well as assist individual partnership initiatives to attract new partners and donors. The database can be searched by geographic scope or theme.

The page can be viewed at <http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/partnerships/partnerships.htm>.

Disaster Risk Management in Asia, Special Edition now Available!

This newsletter by ADPC is now available in print and online.

Publication can be viewed at <http://www.adpc.net/infores/newsletter/newsletter.html>.