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Disaster Mitigation in Asia
Issue No. 6 
30 September 2003

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

FROM THE REGION

Integrating Disaster Mitigation in Urban Planning Education in Asia

ADPC, in partnership with the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the Netherlands, and Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques (ENSG), France, conducted the regional training course cum workshop on 11-12 August 2003 in Bangkok, Thailand under the project entitled "Sustainable Capacity Building on Urban Disaster Mitigation in Asia using IT&C Learning Tools (CASITA)". Twenty five lecturers, researchers and urban planners from 14 partner universities and training institutes in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam attended the course.

The CASITA project aims to build capacity on modern disaster mitigation training tools by providing support to the institutionalization of disaster mitigation courses in the urban planning curricula at the university level.

During the course, the participants' shared their on-going efforts and future plans of integrating disaster mitigation in the curricula and presented outlines of case studies to be developed by each of the participating institution.

For more information about CASITA, please visit
<http://www.adpc.net/casita/> or email Mr. Rajesh Sharma <rajesh@adpc.net>.

Public Forum "Living with Risk ­ are we prepared for the next big one?"

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake and the International Disaster Reduction Day on 1 September and 8 October 2003, respectively, a public forum on "Living with Risk ­ are we prepared for the next big one?," will be held on 4 October 2003, 14:00-18:00 hours at the UN House 3F, U Thant International Conference Hall, Tokyo, Japan.

Jointly organized by the United Nations University (UNU), Cabinet Office of Japan, UN ISDR Secretariat, World Seismic Safety Initiative (WSSI), and Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), this Forum provides an opportunity to discuss the current status and challenges of earthquake disaster preparedness in Japan, as well as understand the natural disaster risk that society faces and promote disaster reduction activities around the world. Renowned Japanese and International experts will address earthquake disaster reduction issues from historical, infrastructure, economic and emergency management perspectives. A Q & A session will be held at the end of the forum.

For more information, please contact the Secretariat at eqforum@hq.unu.edu or visit
<http://www.adrc.or.jp/OpenForum_200310/Public_Forum_20031004_en.htm>.

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