Last updated: 15 September, 2008    

Disaster Mitigation in Asia
Issue No. 15 
30 June 2004

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

FROM THE REGION

Flood Ranger - an innovative flood risk management tool Developed and promoted in the United Kingdom

Flood Ranger is a flood simulator designed to inform understanding of and debate about the underlying factors affecting risk from flooding. It does this by exploring and illustrating, at a generic level, the possible societal, environmental and economic impacts of decisions made now and in the decades to come. The simulator puts the player in control of a piece of coastline, makes him take tough decisions and face its consequences. Flood ranger is aimed at people with no specialist background in flood management but who have an interest in gaining better understanding of the interplay of the factors that will affect future flood risk, like those who are involved in development and planning, education and infrastructure management.

Copies of FloodRanger available at <http://www.discoverysoftware.co.uk/FloodRanger.htm>.

EEP Calling for Partners

The Environmental Emergencies Partnership (EEP), launched in 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, is aimed at reducing the frequency and severity of environmental emergencies through more effective and integrated preparedness, prevention and response. The Partnership is now in a results-focussed implementation phase and welcomes new partners to expand its outreach and explore possible initiatives with a range of countries and stakeholders, including the private sector.

For more information, visit <http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/eep>.

Environmental Vulnerability Indicator

(EVI) launched Recognizing that a country is vulnerable to potential impacts on its social, economic or environmental systems, which may create a variety of disadvantages to sustainable development, the EVI project was initiated and developed by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). The EVI project aims to to promote environmental vulnerability considerations into national development planning and management, thereby encouraging sustainable development. The robust operational global environmental vulnerability index will provide a relatively quick and inexpensive way of characterizing vulnerability of natural systems at any level ( regional, state, provincial or island).

More information on this initiative is available at EVI Web <http://cobalt.sopac.org.fj/Projects/Evi/EVI_Project.htm>.

Next Page

This e-newsletter is sent to almost 2,000 subscribers.

Disaster Mitigation in Asia is a moderated electronic newsletter provided by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center for sharing updates on disaster mitigation in Asia that includes latest information sources and analytical accounts of new approaches, methodologies, models, resources and tools for disaster risk reduction. This e-newsletter will also provide updates on projects, conferences, training courses and workshops in the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Asia and worldwide.

Questions for the readership, responses and contributions to this e-newsletter are encouraged. Items received will be posted in the next issue with editing, if required. Please send your contributions to: <audmp@adpc.net>

To subscribe to this group, send a blank email to: <adpc-announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>

To unsubscribe from this group, send a blank email to: <adpc-announce-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com>

For back issues of Disaster Mitigation in Asia please visit: <http://www.adpc.net/audmp/e-news/default.html> 
or <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adpc-announce/messages>

For additional information, please contact ADPC at:

P.O. Box 4 Klong Luang, Pathumthani 1210, Thailand
Tel: (662) 516 5900 to 10
Fax: (662) 524 5350
E-mail: <audmp@adpc.net> (effective as of 15 February 2003)
URL: <http://www.adpc.net> (effective as of 15 February 2003)

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center. The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center is not responsible for accuracy of information expressed herein.

Unless stated otherwise articles may be copied or quoted without restriction, provided the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and the original author(s) and institution(s) are acknowledged.

Copyright 2003 ADPC.