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The 4th International Seminar on Disaster Prevention and Environment
Organizers:
Center for Local Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (CLDPM), Yamaguchi University
Glocal Environmental and Disaster Prevention Research Group, Yamaguchi University
Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (JST/GMT+9)
"Managing Today's Complex Crises: Lessons From the Past"
Speaker: Prof. David Alexander, University College London (UCL), UK
Prof. David Alexander is a Professor of Emergency Planning and Management, UCL, and a Research Fellow, Global Risk Forum GRF Davos (Switzerland). He is also a visiting professor at many universities. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and was formerly Co-Editor of Disasters journal. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of 16 other scientific journals. In 2013 he won the Distinguished Research Award of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM).
Abstract:
With climate change and technological development, the world
is changing fast and disasters are posing an increasing complex challenge
to society. Although the major emergencies of the future will not be exactly
like those of the past, there is a need to learn and apply the lessons
of past disasters in order to work for a safer future. With reference to
significant events from distant and recent history, this talk will review
some of the major lessons derived from disasters and consider how they
may help disaster risk reduction as we move into an increasingly uncertain
future. Emergency managers are often accused of "planning for the
last disaster, not the next one", but paradoxically the study of successes
and failures in managing the disasters of the past can help develop a better
strategy for adapting to the disasters of the future.
Language: English
Capacity: 500 people
Registration Deadline: Thursday, March 2, 2023, 1:00 p.m. (JST/GMT+9)
Call for Participation
This is FREE Zoom Webinar. The organizers welcome participation from not only researchers but also
anyone interested in disaster prevention and environment. Those who attend
the seminar, please fill out the Online Registration Form.
You will receive a registration completion email immediately after registration.
The registration completion email contains the Zoom participation URL,
so please keep it until the day of the event. If you do not receive the
registration completion email, it is possible that your registration has
not been completed. In that case, please contact us by email. Depending
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so please check the junk mail folder as well.
How to Attend the Zoom Webinar
How to Attend the Zoom Webinar (PDFファイル、606KB)
It describes how to connect to Zoom and how to ask questions in the Q&A
session.
