Conference announcements

Operationalising Public Private Partnerships for Disaster Management
Towards Resilient and Sustainability Goals

16 - 17 April 2008, Pragati Maidan
New Delhi, India

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Conference on Operationalising Public Private Partnerships for Disaster Management being held under the Auspices of National Disaster Management Authority of India (NDMA), Government of India. This will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India on April 16 and April 17 2008 for which the focus is on the following four themes :

May 28, 2007
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The World Disaster Response Summit
May 30 - June 1, 2007
World Congress Center in Atlanta http://www.gwcc.com/

18 & 19 December 2007

The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

Remote sensing provides many cost-effective means of mapping features in developing countries, where existing map coverage is often limited and I.T. capacity may be rudimentary. Presentations are invited on geological remote sensing applications, focused on developing countries, for the following topics:

(i) Earth resources & environmental geology
(ii) geohazards & disaster management
(iii) new technologies & techniques

The Fifth International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE-5) in providing a forum for scientific discussion on the above subjects to be convened in Tehran, Iran from 13-16 May 2007.
Topics to be addressed include Seismotectonic, Seismology, Earthquake Prediction, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Structural Earthquake Engineering, Risk Management, Socio-economic and Public Awareness.

The International Disaster Reduction Conference IDRC 2007, Harbin•China is a follow-up conference of the IDRC Davos 2006 Conference, which has been organized at Davos, Switzerland from August 28th – September 1st, 2006.
The IDRC Harbin 2007 will take place from August 21st to August 25th, 2007 in the internationally known “ice city” of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province in north-eastern China, with a special focus on China and the South East Asia region.

see Link:
http://www.harbin2007.cn/en/2.asp

The Seventh IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated Disaster Risk Management will take place September 19-21, 2007 in Stresa on the Lake Maggiore, Italy.

see link:
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/RAV/conf/IDRiM07/index.html