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Institute Fellow contributes to IPCC report on climate change adaptation - (Date of publication - 22 February 2010)

ICPEM Honorary Fellow, Professor Ian Davis has been selected by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to contribute to a special report providing practical advice to help countries adapt to the threats posed by climate change.

Professor Davis was selected in September 2009, as one of eight UK authors working in a 110 strong team to produce the report: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). This is the first time that experts in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation have been brought into a single team to examine issues around climate change.

This SREX report is taking the line that climate change is happening and is likely to expand in scale. Therefore, one of the aims of the report is to provide practical advice to over 190 IPCC countries about ways in which they might adapt their economies, social patterns, settlements, natural environment and civil institutions to live with, reduce or transfer the threat of climate change.

The two year SREX project started with a meeting in Panama City in November 2009. The team will meet again in March in Vietnam to review the first draft. The final report is due to be published in early 2012.

Response to Department of Health consultation on draft health protection regulations - (Date of publication - 13 January 2010)

Between July and September 2009, the Department of Health ran a formal consultation on draft health protection regulations. We are very grateful to those who responded for their contributions. We have analysed the responses carefully, and have now published a response to the consultation on the Department of Health website at this address:

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Responsestoconsultations/DH_111046

Jonathan Stopes-Roe
Deputy Director, Legislation and Environmental Hazards
Health Protection Division
Department of Health

ICPEM President gives evidence to The Iraq Inquiry - (Date of publication - 07 January 2010)

Our President, Major General (Rtd) Tim Cross, gave oral evidence to the Iraq Enquiry on December 7th 2009.

A transcript of his oral evidence can be downloaded here

A transcript of his written evdience can be downloaded here

Doctrine and Principles of Emergency Management - (Date of publication - 20 November 2009)

Mindful that it has been attempted on a number of occasions, and not successful to any great degree, three Fellows of the institute have set up a small working group to develop doctrine and some principles of emergency management.

The Fellows are:

Professor David Alexander of the University of Florence, Italy
Professor Ian Davis, Visiting Professor in Disaster Management at Cranfield, Oxford (Brookes) and Kyoto (Japan) Universities
Tony Moore, Co-Chair of the institute and formerly Associate Director of the Resilience Centre, Cranfield University, and now Visiting Fellow

If any Fellow, Member, or Student Member of the institute would like to join or contribute to this working roup, please contact Tony Moore at tony.moore@:icpem.net

IDER Conference, Karlstad, Sweden, 20th and 21st October 2009 - (Date of publication - 28 October 2009)

The 10th International Disaster and Emergency Resilience (IDER) Conference was held at Karlstad in Sweden on 20th and 21st October 2009 in association with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB). The programme identified a number of current issues and topics affecting the disaster and emergency readiness community. Speakers are generally by invitation.

All three speakers in the Session relating to Lessons Identified from Recent Disasters were Fellows or Members of Institute.

Firstly, Professor David Alexander from the University of Florence spoke on the subject relating it to the L'Aquila Earthquake. The second speaker, the Institute's Co-Chair, Tony Moore, then identified lessons from African sports stadia disasters as we approach the World Football Championships to be held in South Africa in 2010 but posed the question 'have they been learned?' The final speaker in this session, Gillian Dacey, Exercise manager with the Health Protection Agency, spoke about lessons from exercises under the title of Lesson Identified or Recurring Themes?

Professor Alexander's presentation can be found at www.slideshare.net/dealexander/
A short report on disasters in Africa stadia and some of the problems faced by the authorities in South Africa will be available on this website in about three weeks time.

Further information about IDER can be found at www.iderweb.org

Cranfield Institute for Safety, Risk and Reliability - Counter-terrorism Special Interest Group - (Date of publication - 28 October 2009)

The Institute is in the process of setting up a Counter-terrorism Special Interest Group.

Would anyone interested in becoming a member of this group please contact Keith Weston at k.weston@cranfield.ac.uk

ICPEM keynote at the European Commission's 4th Annual Security Symposium in Brussels on 24 September - (Date of publication - 08 October 2009)

Institute Co-Chair, Tony Moore, was the opening speaker at the European Commission's 4th Annual Security Symposium in Brussels on 24 September 2009.

To view the text of his presentation, please click here

HPA Pandemic response - ICPEM member involvement - (Date of publication - 05 August 2009)

Two members of the institute have been heavily involved with the Health Protection Agency's response to the Swine Flu pandemic threat.

Gordon MacDonald and Karen Reddin have been working long hours supporting the HPA at its Command Centre