IAEG XII Congress – Torino, September 15-19, 2014

7.3 – GEOETHICS AND NATURAL HAZARDS: COMMUNICATION, EDUCATION AND THE SCIENCE-POLICY-PRACTICE INTERFACE

Among the critical ethical issues faced by Geoscientists and Engineers concerned with natural hazards (e.g. earthquake, volcano, landslide and flood events) is the increasing death toll and cost owing to rapidly growing population, occupation of marginal/unsafe land, and misuse of land. This problem is often aggravated in developing countries. Continue reading →

Date: 19-23 May 2013
Venue: Geneva, Switzerland

The Global Platform for Disaster Reduction was established in 2007 as a biennial forum for information exchange, discussion of latest development and knowledge and partnership building across sectors, with the goal to improve implementation of disaster risk reduction through better communication and coordination amongst stakeholders. The Global Platform is organized by UNISDR, the UN’s office for disaster risk reduction and secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Continue reading →

Our bi-annual SEADPRI Newsletter No.8 (Feb 2013) is out, head for Publication section for download.