Events & News on Disaster Management:

Meetings on Disasters Management and related issues:

A list  of meetings on disaster management and related issues is provided on this page. Some of the meetings are scheduled and others already over. The meetings already over are listed for interested visitors wanting to go through the proceedings of the meetings. We request you to provide us information, if you are aware of any meetings on the topics, going to happen or already organized, email to us at dmis@sristi.org

38th Annual Indian Geophysical Union Convention and Meeting on Natural Hazards and Disaster Management: "Role of Earth System Scientists." 

Abstracts are due September 30, 2001, and should be sent to P.R. Reddy, Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad 500 007, India; Tel: +40-717-2911; Fax: +40-717-1564NGRI Campus, Uppal Road, E-mail: nandula@eth.net or, igu123@rediffmail.com Go to http://www.ema.gov.au/4edutrainresearch/seminars/1820dec2001.htm

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Meeting on review of earthquake relief and rehabilitation efforts by Samanvaya: 

Friends of Bhuj was formed on the evening of the 27th as a spontaneous gesture by concerned citizen's of Chennai. To date the team remains voluntary and un-structured.  We have concentrated in providing communication link between the NGOs doing relief work in Gujarat and the Chennai Citizen's through our constant updates and reports. Email: samanvaya@vsnl.com, Click here

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Inter Country Meeting on Disaster Preparedness, Indonesia: The meet focused on-

* Gujarat earthquake Lessons learned

* Critical issues in the aftermath of earthquake 

* How to put disaster preparedness higher on the agenda?

* Working with UN and international and national NGOs in disaster preparedness and response

* Disaster Preparedness: How to proceed Go to http://w3.whosea.org/disaster/workshop.htm 

Source: http://www.ema.gov.au or as indicated by the URL