11 new and 34 upcoming meetings & conferences on the
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AFRICA
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE DRR CALENDAR
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* Cape Town, South
Africa: International day for disaster reduction 2013
Date: 11 Oct 2013
Organizer: City of Cape Town, South Africa - gov
Location: South Africa (Cape Town)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Vulnerable Populations
* International
Day for Disaster Reduction 2013 Celebration - �Living
with Disability and Disasters�
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR ROAS); World Health
Organization - Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO - EMRO)
Location: Egypt (Cairo)
Themes: Community-based DRR; Disaster Risk Management;
Social Impacts & Resilience; Vulnerable Populations
UPCOMING EVENTS - NEXT 2 WEEKS (16 to 30 Oct 2013)
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* Uganda: National
conference on disaster risk reduction (DRR)
Date: 17 Oct 2013
Organizer: Office of the Prime Minister, Department of
Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Management
(OPM), Uganda - gov; Uganda Red Cross Society; United Nations
Development Programme - Uganda (UNDP
Uganda); United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional
Office for Africa (UNISDR AF)
Location: Uganda
Themes: Community-based DRR; Early Warning; Indigenous
Knowledge; Media; Vulnerable Populations
* Transforming
rural livelihoods in Africa: How can land and water management contribute to
enhanced food security and address climate change adaptation and mitigation?
Date: 20-25 Oct 2013
Organizer: Africa Soil Science Society (ASSS); Soil
Science Society of East Africa (SSSEA)
Location: Kenya (Nakuru)
Themes: Capacity Development; Climate Change; Food
Security & Agriculture; Water
* Third conference
on climate change and development in Africa (CCDA-III)
Date: 21-23 Oct 2013
Organizer: African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC)
Location: Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
Themes: Climate Change; Economics of DRR; Governance
* International
Day for Disaster Reduction 2013 Celebration - �Living
with Disability and Disasters�
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR ROAS); World Health
Organization - Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO - EMRO)
Location: Egypt (Cairo)
Themes: Community-based DRR; Disaster Risk Management;
Social Impacts & Resilience; Vulnerable Populations
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AMERICAS
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE DRR CALENDAR
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* Guyana:
in-school art and essay competition - for students of schools for children with
disabilities
Date: 11 Oct - 22 Nov 2013
Organizer: Civil Defense Commission (CDC), Guyana - gov
Location: Guyana
Themes: Education & School Safety; Vulnerable
Populations
* II Festival
Cultural por una Guatemala Resiliente
Date: 13 Oct 2013
Organizer: Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducci�n de Desastres (CONRED),
Guatemala - gov
Location: Guatemala (Ciudad Guatemala)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Vulnerable Populations
* Foro
discapacidades y desastres: Una conversaci�n
no tan obvia
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: Grupo Social CESAP (CESAP); United Nations
Development Programme - Venezuela (UNDP Venezuela)
Location: Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of (Caracas)
Themes: Vulnerable Populations
* El riesgo nos
toca: 1er encuentro sobre
responsabilidad de los gobiernos locales en
la gesti�n de
riesgos y reducci�n de
desastres
Date: 30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Grupo Social CESAP, Redes Locales de Gesti�n de Riesgos de M�rida (CESAP)
Location: Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of (M�rida)
Themes: Urban Risk & Planning
* Fourth annual
roundtable for Canada's Platform for disaster risk reduction
Date: 05 Nov 2013
Organizer: Public Safety Canada, Canada's Platform for
Disaster Risk Reduction (PS), Canada -
gov
Location: Canada (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Themes: Governance
UPCOMING EVENTS - NEXT 2 WEEKS (16 to 30 Oct 2013)
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* Managing fire on
populated forest landscapes
Date: 20-25 Oct 2013
Organizer: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest
Service , Canada - gov; University of Toronto; University of Washington;
University of Western Ontario (UWO); Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU)
Location: Canada (Vancouver)
Themes: Climate Change; Disaster Risk Management; Risk
Identification & Assessment; Space Technology
Hazards: Wild Fire
* NOAA's 38th
climate diagnostics and prediction workshop
Date: 21-24 Oct 2013
Organizer: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), United States of America - gov
Location: United States of America (College Park,
Maryland)
Themes: Climate Change; Early Warning; Environment; Risk
Identification & Assessment; Water
* Foro
discapacidades y desastres: Una conversaci�n
no tan obvia
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: Grupo Social CESAP (CESAP); United Nations
Development Programme - Venezuela (UNDP Venezuela)
Location: Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of (Caracas)
Themes: Vulnerable Populations
* 1st
international workshop on landslides in sensitive clays (IWLSC)
Date: 28-30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Laval University (UL); Ministry of
Transportation, Quebec; Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)
Location: Canada (Quebec)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning;
Environment; GIS & Mapping; Risk Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Land Slide
* El riesgo nos
toca: 1er encuentro sobre
responsabilidad de los gobiernos locales en
la gesti�n de
riesgos y reducci�n de
desastres
Date: 30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Grupo Social CESAP, Redes Locales de Gesti�n de Riesgos de M�rida (CESAP)
Location: Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of (M�rida)
Themes: Urban Risk & Planning
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ASIA
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE DRR CALENDAR
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* The disaster
#thisability hour
Date: 11 Oct 2013
Organizer: Oxfam - Great Britain
Location: Philippines
Themes: Disaster Risk Management
* 5th CR+I
seminar: Lessons learned from the events of March 11
Date: 28-29 Oct 2013
Organizer: International Association for the Study of
Insurance Economics (Geneva Association)
Location: Japan (Sendai)
Themes: Climate Change; Disaster Risk Management;
Insurance & Risk Transfer; Public-private Partnerships; Risk Identification
& Assessment
Hazards: Cyclone; Earthquake; Tsunami
UPCOMING EVENTS - NEXT 2 WEEKS (16 to 30 Oct 2013)
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* The 4th
international conference on sustainable future for human security (SUSTAIN
2013)
Date: 18-21 Oct 2013
Organizer: Indonesian Student Association Kyoto (ISA);
Kyoto University; Sustain Society
Location: Japan (kyoto)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning; Water
Hazards: Land Slide
* Hazard and risk
management in Asia-Pacific region: Earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption and
landslide in subduction zones
Date: 19-20 Oct 2013
Organizer: Global Earthquake, Tsunami and Volcanic
Eruption Risk Management (G-EVER); International Union of Geological Sciences
(IUGS); National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST); Science Council of Japan (SCJ)
Location: Japan (Sendai)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; GIS & Mapping;
Information Management; Risk Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Earthquake; Land Slide; Tsunami; Volcano
* 1945 makran
tsunami ESCAP project meeting
Date: 20-24 Oct 2013
Organizer: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
Location: Oman (Muscat)
Themes: Community-based DRR; Education & School
Safety
Hazards: Tsunami
* First national
conference on ecological change
Date: 21-22 Oct 2013
Organizer: Institute of Resource Governance and Social
Change (IRGSC)
Location: Indonesia (Kupang)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Social Impacts &
Resilience; Water
Hazards: Flood
* IDRC Singapore
2013: Mega cities and urban risks
Date: 21-22 Oct 2013
Organizer: Global Risk Forum (GRF Davos); Institute of
Catastrophe Risk Management, Nanyang Technological University (ICRM)
Location: Singapore
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Urban Risk &
Planning; Water
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic; NBC - Nuclear,
Biological, Chemical
* 11th
international symposium on mitigation of geo-disasters in Asia
Date: 22-27 Oct 2013
Organizer: Himalayan Landslide Society (HiLS)
Location: Nepal (Kathmandu and Pokhara City)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management
Hazards: Land Slide
* Young scientists� conference on integrated
research on disaster risk, future earth, and sustainability
Date: 22-24 Oct 2013
Organizer: System for Analysis, Research and Training
(START)
Location: Taiwan (China) (Taipei)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Environment
* United Nations
international conference on space-based technologies for disaster risk
identification, assessment and monitoring
Date: 23-25 Oct 2013
Organizer: Ministry of Civil Affairs, China - gov; United
Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, UN-SPIDER (UNOOSA)
Location: China (Beijing)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Economics of DRR;
Governance; Risk Identification & Assessment; Space Technology
Hazards: Drought; Flood
* 5th CR+I
seminar: Lessons learned from the events of March 11
Date: 28-29 Oct 2013
Organizer: International Association for the Study of
Insurance Economics (Geneva Association)
Location: Japan (Sendai)
Themes: Climate Change; Disaster Risk Management;
Insurance & Risk Transfer; Public-private Partnerships; Risk Identification
& Assessment
Hazards: Cyclone; Earthquake; Tsunami
* 9th APRU
research symposium on multi-hazards around the Pacific Rim
Date: 28-29 Oct 2013
Organizer: Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)
Location: Taiwan (China) (Taipei)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning;
Governance; Recovery; Risk Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Earthquake; Storm Surge; Volcano
* 2nd
international conference on enviromental hazards
Date: 29-30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Kharazmi University
Location: Iran, Islamic Rep of (Tehran)
Themes: Environment; GIS & Mapping; Urban Risk &
Planning
Hazards: Cold Wave; Cyclone; Drought; Earthquake; Flood;
Heat Wave; Land Slide; Tsunami; Volcano
* Asia flood
conference 2013
Date: 29-31 Oct 2013
Organizer: Fireworks Trade Media Group
Location: Thailand (Bangkok)
Themes: Early Warning; Health & Health Facilities;
Insurance & Risk Transfer; Risk Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Flood
* International
day for disaster reduction 2013: Symposium on disabilities and disaster risk
reduction
Date: 29 Oct 2013
Organizer: Japan Disability Forum (JDF); Nippon
Foundation, the; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Hyogo
Liaison Office (UNISDR Hyogo)
Location: Japan (Rikuzentakata City)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Governance; Vulnerable
Populations
Hazards: Earthquake
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EUROPE
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE DRR CALENDAR
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* Disaster risk
reduction: A concern worldwide public talk
Date: 16 Oct 2013
Organizer: Concern Worldwide
Location: Ireland (Dublin)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Risk Identification
& Assessment
Hazards: All hazards approach (for educational material
only)
* Critical
infrastructure protection and resilience Europe
Date: 12-13 Feb 2014
Organizer: Torch Marketing
Location: United Kingdom (London)
Themes: Critical Infrastructure; Risk Identification
& Assessment; Social Impacts & Resilience
UPCOMING EVENTS - NEXT 2 WEEKS (16 to 30 Oct 2013)
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* 1st
international conference '(Dis)memory of disaster'
Date: 18-19 Oct 2013
Organizer: Universidade Cat�lica
Portuguesa, Centro de Estudos de Comunica��o
e Cultura (CECC) (UCP); Universidade da
Madeira, Centro de Investiga��o
em Estudos Regionais e Locais (CIERL)
(UMa)
Location: Portugal (Funchal, Madeira Island)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Social Impacts &
Resilience
* Basketball for
International Day for Disaster Reduction
Date: 20 Oct 2013
Organizer: Geneva Environment Network (GEN); United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Location: Switzerland (Geneva)
Themes: Capacity Development; Civil Society/NGOs;
Disaster Risk Management; Education & School Safety; Social Impacts &
Resilience; Vulnerable Populations
* 7th IWA
specialist conference on efficient use and management of water
Date: 22-25 Oct 2013
Organizer: International Water Association (IWA);
Scientific and Technical Association for Water and the Environment (ASTEE)
Location: France (Paris)
Themes: Climate Change; Food Security & Agriculture;
Governance; Water
Hazards: Drought
* Introduction to
hydromorphology and fluvial geomorphology
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: JBA Consulting
Location: United Kingdom
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Environment; Risk
Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Flood
* Wildfire 2013
Date: 22-23 Oct 2013
Organizer: Rural Development Initiatives - United Kingdom
(RDI)
Location: United Kingdom
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Risk Identification
& Assessment
Hazards: Wild Fire
* Climate from the
Nordic-Baltic perspective: Science, policy and economy
Date: 23-24 Oct 2013
Organizer: Institute of Communication, Tallinn University;
Ministry of the Environment, Estonia - government; Nordic Cooperation, Nordic
Council of Ministers ; Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Location: Estonia (Tallinn)
Themes: Climate Change; Economics of DRR; Environment;
Food Security & Agriculture; Governance
* Call for papers
on disaster preparedness at the world conference on humanitarian studies
Date: 24-27 Oct 2013
Organizer: Kadir Has University
Location: Turkey (Istanbul)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Economics of DRR;
Vulnerable Populations
* OCHA panels at
international humanitarian studies conference
Date: 24-27 Oct 2013
Organizer: United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs - Headquarters (OCHA)
Location: Turkey (Istanbul)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning;
Economics of DRR; Information Management; Insurance & Risk Transfer; Risk
Identification & Assessment
* UK national
dialogue on HFA2
Date: 24 Oct 2013
Organizer: Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet
Office (CCS), United Kingdom - gov
Location: United Kingdom (London)
Themes: Civil Society/NGOs; Disaster Risk Management;
Governance; Public-private Partnerships
* Next steps for
UK climate change policy: Delivering the national adaptation programme
Date: 29 Oct 2013
Organizer: Westminster Forum Projects (WFP)
Location: United Kingdom (London)
Themes: Climate Change; Critical Infrastructure;
Environment; Food Security & Agriculture; Governance; Health & Health
Facilities
* Flood risk
management: Managing extreme weather
Date: 30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Public Service Events (PS)
Location: United Kingdom (The Queens, Leeds)
Themes: Climate Change; Critical Infrastructure; Disaster
Risk Management; Environment; Food Security & Agriculture; Governance;
Recovery; Water
Hazards: Flood
* Global congress
on integrated coastal management: Lessons learned to address new challenges
Date: 30 Oct - 03 Nov 2013
Organizer: Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal
Seas Center (EMECS), Japan - gov; Mediterranean Coastal Foundation (MEDCOAST)
Location: Turkey (Marmaris)
Themes: Climate Change; Disaster Risk Management;
Economics of DRR; Environment; GIS & Mapping; Governance; Information
Management; Structural Safety; Urban Risk & Planning; Water
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