This week (4-6th September 2013) a major conference is talking place at Northumbria University in Newcastle, with a focus on disaster risk reduction and disaster management. The conference, Dealing with Disasters Conference / 4th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, will explore the theme ‘From Opportunity to Action: Bridging the Gap between Disaster Reduction and Development through Science(s), Technology and People Centred Actions.’
Some of the topics covered at the event will include:
- Engaging demographic difference and change in disaster and development,
- Developing public-private-civil societal-academic partnerships to improve Disaster Risk Reduction knowledge sharing
and decision making, - The risk governance, scientific advisors, science and policy interface,
- Education, communication, and development in disaster risk reduction,
- Cities, risk and infrastructure technologies,
- Disaster education, learning and response.
The conference will be a fascinating opportunity to hear from a range of stakeholders – both science and non-science, development practitioners, policy makers and others. We will be tweeting from the event (check out www.twitter.com/gilljoel and www.twitter.com/geo_dev) and writing up some of the key sessions on the GfGD blog afterwards.
