GLOBAL PLATFORM FOR DISASTER REDUCTION

Geneva - Switzerland ( 15-19 June 2009)

The second session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Geneva, Switzerland, during the week of 15 - 19 June 2009.
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum on disaster risk reduction. At its first session in June 2007, it brought together representatives of governments, UN agencies, regional bodies, international financial institutions, civil society, the private sector and the scientific and academic communities to raise awareness on disaster risk, to share experience and to guide the ISDR system with a view to supporting countries to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action. Information : www.preventionweb.net/globalplatform

Cities on Volcanoes 6 - Tenerife 2010 (Canary Islands, Spain)

May 31st to June 4th, 2010

The CoV 6 -Tenerife organized by ITER and Cabildo Insular de Tenerife will take place from May 31 to June 4, 2010.

COV6-Tenerife 2010* is hosted by the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife and ITER and co-hosted by the Comission of Cities and Volcanoes (CaV) of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) and several international, national, regional and local institutions and organizations. CoV6-Tenerife 2010 is planned as an international forum on volcanic risk managment. Scientific and technical sessions are planned to bring together geoscientists working on active volcanoes, authorities, civil protection specialists, city planners, social scientists, economists, psychologists, educators, health specialists, engineers, mass media and general members of communities living in active volcanoes to exchange and understand their experiences and knowledge in order to evaluate and improve prevention/mitigation actions, land-use planning, emergency management, and all required measurements to improve volcanic risk management in densely populated volcanic regions. This meeting will be also an ideal international forum to discuss about the plus side of living in an active volcanic environments.

Contact : Dr. Nemesio M. Pérez

Contact Address: Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER), 38611 Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Phone: +34-922391000 Fax : +34-922391001

e-mail: nperez@iter.es

website: http://www.citiesonvolcanoes6.com

Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards:
Putting Research into Practice

November 4th - 6th, 2009
University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk/drrconference

The breadth of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is such that it involves researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines, all working on
different aspects of reducing disaster risk. Consequently DRR means different things to different people. By bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, NGOs and civil authorities, the aim of this meeting is to review definitions of DRR and examine its key components by exploring a number of different perspectives and highlighting linkages between the diverse approaches. This provides the opportunity to analyse the application of the physical and social sciences to DRR on a multi-disciplinary and multi-hazard platform.

Planned sessions include: Session 1: What is DRR and how does it work in practice? Session 2: Quantifying hazardous natural processes
Session 3: Assessing vulnerability, resilience and capacity; Session 4: Cultural perceptions of hazard and risk ; Session 5: Effective communication and decision making

Registration and abstract submission (both oral and poster presentations) will open in May. To receive registration details directly please contact
es-drrconference@ucl.ac.uk

The meeting is sponsored by the UCL DRR Hub, SPIDER Network and CAFOD, with support from Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, EPICentre and the UCL Development Planning Unit

Multidisciplinary international volcanological congress to commemorate

the 250th anniversary of Volcán Jorullo's birth in Michoacán, México

September, 2009

Contact : Dr. Claus Siebe and Dr. Marie-Noelle Guilbaud (1) ; Dr. Gerardo Bocco and Dra. Ma. Teresa Ramírez (2); Victor Hugo Garduño Monroy (3); Avto Gogichaishvili (4)

1-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); 2-Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, UNAM-Campus Morelia 3- UMSNH-IIM, Departamento de Geología y Mineralogía; 4-Instituto de Geofísica-Sede Michoacán, UNAM

Phone: +(52)-55-56224146 (C. Siebe) Fax : + (52)-55-55502486 (C. Siebe)

e-mail: csiebe@geofisica.unam.mx / m.guilbaud@geofisica.unam.mx / gbocco@ciga.unam.mx / mtramirez@berkley.edu / vgmonroy@zeus.umich.mx

website: http://www.geofisica.unam.mx/vulcanologia/jorullo

3rd Johnston-Lavis Colloquium: Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards

Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphologcal Hazards

15 - 17 September 2009

The ABU Hazard Research Centre (University College London) is hosting a major scientific conference in September 2009, which will address the relationships between past and contemporary climate change and the triggering of hazardous geological and geomorphological phenomena, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and submarine and subaerial landslides. The Third Johnston-Lavis Colloquium, on the theme of Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards, will take place at UCL from 15 - 17 September 2009, and is supported by UCL, Oxford University, the Met Office, the British Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey.

The four conference sessions are as follows: Past climate change and geological and geomorphological hazards, feedback effects and climate modification,
Short time-scale environmental drivers of geological and geomorphological hazards Climate change forcing of geological and geomorphological hazards

Abstract and early-bird registration deadline are both 6 July 2009.

For further information go to: www.abuhrc.org or contact Professor Bill McGuire ( w.mcguire@ucl.ac.uk )

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for inclusion in a thematic issue of Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society, London

IAVCEI-IASPEI Interassociation Committee: VOLCANO SEISMOLOGY
ESC Working Group: VOLCANOES & EARTHQUAKES

Island of Pico, Azores

14 - 20 September 2009

(arrival day: September 14, and departure day: September 20, 2009). As usual, the programme will include all volcanological topics but the
emphasis will be on: "Interactions between tectonic and volcanic activity and implications for eruption forecasting "

Please find more information on the ESC web site under NEXT WORKSHOP: http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/esc_wg/Wshop/work2009.htm

which will be regularly updated. Register and submit the title(s) of your contribution(s) to Roberto Carniel, e-mail: roberto.carniel@uniud.it

Please note that there is also the possibility of a PRE-workshop fieldtrip (9-13 September), so don't book your flights too quickly.

Organizing Committee:Zilda Terra Tavares de Melo de França, Universidade dos Açores - Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, Alicia García García, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Jurgen Neuberg, University of Leeds, UK, Roberto Carniel, University of Udine, Italy