7th International IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated Disaster Risk Management Stresa, Italy September 19-21, 2007 Coping with Disasters: Global Challenges for the 21st Century and Beyond Abstract book

The 2007 IIASA-DPRI Forum Coping with Disasters: Global Challenges for the 21st Century and Beyond will be sponsored by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. It will be held in Stresa on the Lago Maggiore (near the Joint Research Centre) in Italy and will consist of two workshops and a 2.5-day forum. The dates of the Forum are 19-21 September. The themes of the 2007 Forum include: Global Change and Vulnerability Climate and extreme weather, land use, urbanization Globalization and knowledge transfer Integrated disaster risk management and sustainable human development Long-term local and global disaster impacts Physical, environmental, social Disaster risk reduction Funding, capacity building, measuring performance Industrial risk management Risk assessment and management, Natechs Disaster safety nets Informal (kinship, livelihood diversification), Microinsurance The science of implementation Policy, Implementation, and Legislation

MUSHTAQ Fesil;  KRAUSMANN Elisabeth;  SALES SABORIT Jaime; 

2007-09-27

Joint Research Centre

JRC38266

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC38266,