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GLOBAL RISK FORUM GRF DAVOS

Session T

 

Subject

Sustainable Development and Integrated Disaster Risk Management

Date

13.07.09

Time

13:30 -18:00

Room

 

Type

Special Session

Description

In today’s world, achieving sustainable development of economic and social has become the consensus of the international community, and integrated disaster risk management will be main principles and practices of the disaster management that international community promote and advance actively. Therefore, the active promotion of the implemented for comprehensive disaster risk management strategy is very important. And it is both the needs to correspond with the international community and the needs of coordinated development of environment, resources and social. Therefore, the special session will focus on the coordinated development of environment, resources and social to explore the measures, policies that can promote integrated disaster risk management, and to explore the experience and enlightenment of countries in achieving sustainable development and integrated disaster risk management.

Convener

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Speakers

Evarist Mbakem Anu
Northumbria University, British
Subject: The Impact of Slow Onset Disasters on lLvelihoods and Sustainability: Case Study of Farming Communities on the Foot of Mount Cameroon

 

Swati Mitra
Ph.D. in Sociology from Jawahar Lal Nehru University, India
Subject: Sustainable Development through Capacity Building - A Good Practice from India

 

Bijan Yavar
International University of Chabahar (IUC) Head of Research Department, Iran
Subject: Lessons Learnt from Chabahar Free Trade and Industrial Zone Disaster Management Master Plan as a Sustainable Development Framework

 

Jishnu Kumar Subedi
Institute of Engineering Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Subject: Urban Issues and Building Resilient Communities to Disasters: Learning from the Past

 

Louise K. Comfort
Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director, Center for Disaster Management at the University of Pittsburgh, USA
Subject: The Dynamics of Disaster Recovery: Resilience and Entropy in Earthquake Response Systems

 

Chowdhury Mohammad Farouque
Institute for Environment and Development Studies, Bangladesh
Subject: Disaster Management: Bangladesh Perspective

 

Deepty Tiwari
Consultant, India
Subject: Sustaining Development through Community based Consultation Processes: A Case Study of Aceh and Nias, Indonesia

 

Mohammad Al-Amin
Progress Holding Ltd, Bangladesh
Subject: Natural Disasters Mitigation

 

John Silva
Director of Codes and Standards for Hilti North America, USA
Subject: Seismic Design Provisions for Anchors: Concept and Implementation in the U.S.

 

Lin Ye
Beijing Normal University, China
Subject: Trust in Local Ability of Disaster Reduction and its Influences on Public Flood Risk Perception: Based on the Investigation and Analysis

 


 
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