Kingston University, John Galsworthy Building - September 7th, 2010

The Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Hounslow have got together with a number of top disaster resource centres to deliver what will be an interesting and useful event.

 

We are particularly proud to present John Twigg from the UCL Hazard research centre. John has been influencing International Development and Recovery form the last 15 years.  Additionally we have Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita from the legendary DPRI (Disaster Prevention and Research Institute at Kyoto University); for those of you unsure - this is the World’s foremost disaster research organisation! Founded in 1951 they employ over 250 full time disaster researchers. Their research ranges from urban flood control to natural hazard prediction and prevention, and has a strong influence on National policy. His particular interest is disaster education in schools.   

If you are interested please contact Hounslow by emailing contingency.planning@hounslow.gov.uk

Please advise any other professionals that you think would benefit 

 

Download the programme here
Download the event flyer here

 

Institute Fellows Lena Kolesnikova (Leadership Challenges in Managing Counter-terrorist Operation) and Wayne Harrop (How can your business recover - Delivering high standards of crisis response in the short, medium and long term) formed part of the excellent speaker line-up at the CSARN Crisis Leadership Conference held at BT Centre, St. Paul's, London, UK on Friday 11th June.

 

 

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.

 

 

Kingston University, John Galsworthy Building - September 7th, 2010

The Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Hounslow have got together with a number of top disaster resource centres to deliver what will be an interesting and useful event.

 

We are particularly proud to present John Twigg from the UCL Hazard research centre. John has been influencing International Development and Recovery form the last 15 years.  Additionally we have Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita from the legendary DPRI (Disaster Prevention and Research Institute at Kyoto University); for those of you unsure - this is the World’s foremost disaster research organisation! Founded in 1951 they employ over 250 full time disaster researchers. Their research ranges from urban flood control to natural hazard prediction and prevention, and has a strong influence on National policy. His particular interest is disaster education in schools.   

If you are interested please contact Hounslow by emailing contingency.planning@hounslow.gov.uk

Please advise any other professionals that you think would benefit 

 

Download the programme here
Download the event flyer here

 

Institute Fellows Lena Kolesnikova (Leadership Challenges in Managing Counter-terrorist Operation) and Wayne Harrop (How can your business recover - Delivering high standards of crisis response in the short, medium and long term) formed part of the excellent speaker line-up at the CSARN Crisis Leadership Conference held at BT Centre, St. Paul's, London, UK on Friday 11th June.

 

 

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.