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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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