IDCE is an event designed to unite the most internationally recognized and distinguished professionals from around the world for three days of problem solving, planning and preparation, discussing relevant issues dealing with Emergency Management

2015 will be a year of decisions. Humankind is learning every day, and yet ever bigger and more destructive catastrophes are occurring around the world: Fukushima, Deep Water Horizon, Hurricane Katrina. Social crises in numerous countries bear additional

Organizers invite world leaders and top scientists to our Tokyo conference prior to the Third Un World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to discuss and formulate how the science and technology could help in disaster risk reduction and hence fostering

International Recovery Forum 2015: 20th Commemoration of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake - Sending the Message of Building Back Better from Hyogo, Japan

A series of commemorative events on disaster risk reduction are planned in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan for January 2015. Among these: the 20th commemoration of the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake; the 10th year of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA); and the 10th

The Latvian Presidency of the Council of the EU will focus on rising awareness and preparedness for disasters for persons with disability. The official opening and Panel Discussion will webstreamed through PreventionWeb and the official page of Latvian

Considering that “disasters are inevitable in countries with high vulnerability index” such as Bangladesh, more options to further reduce the impacts of disaster are important. “Building back better” after a disaster is one of those options – seizing the