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GLOBAL RISK FORUM GRF DAVOS

Session U

 

Subject

Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and Alleviate Disaster Risk

Date

14.07.09

Time

13:30 -15:30

Room

 

Type

Special Session

Description

Climate change affect the survival and development of human, in-depth reach the security of agriculture, food, water, energy, ecology, public health. Therefore, the response to climate change and disaster prevention and mitigation has become an important part of the development strategy of economic and social in many countries. Therefore, the special session will focus on how to be based on the overall situation of China’s economic and social development, to take scientific and effective measures to actively prepare to deal with climate change strategies to, and the related disaster risk reduction issues.

Convener

tba

Speakers

M. Karthikeyan
Program Leader in DHAN Foundation, India
Subject: Mutual Crop Insurance and its Relevance to Climate Change Adaptation of Small Rainfed Farmers – The Experience of DHAN Foundation

 

G. Bhaskar Reddy
IFS, Director, Orissa Watershed Development Mission (OWDM) India
Subject: Climate Change Adaptation: Learning from Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP): Orissa: India

 

Colonel N. M. Verma
Director General, Saritsa Foundation, India
Subject: People’s Partnership Power – A Pioneering Campaign to Reduce Risks from Disasters and Impacts of Climate Change amongst Vulnerable Communities at Grass Root Level across 12 Disaster Prone States of India – An Analysis and  good Practice for Replication

 

Mohiuddin Babar, Bangladesh

Subject: tba

 

Si Chen
Beijng Normal University, China
Subject: Study on Index of Agricultural Drought Disaster Resilience Assessment from Multiple Spatial Scales: A Case Study of Large-scale Drought of Northern China in 2009

 

Ting Gao
Beijing Normal University, China
Subject: Research on Resilience of Agricultural Drought from Temporal Dimension: Case Study of Large-scale Drought in Northern China since Republic of China

 


 
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