The 4th Annual Business Continuity & Emergency Response Forum comes back to Abu Dhabi on the 11th to 13th of February 2014. After having established itself as the go to event for Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Emergency Response and Disaster

Landslides triggered by earthquakes are one of the classic examples of a multi-hazard and risk phenomena. In fact, they represent a prominent case where triggered events (landslides) are on occasion more devastating than the initial act (earthquakes)

International Recovery Forum 2014: The Role of Private Sector in Disaster Recovery

The discussions at the Forum will dwell on the role of private sector in disaster recovery. It will showcase primarily the experiences and lessons of private sector, including its partnership with the public sector as well as the initiatives that target

The purpose of IDCE is to create opportunities for public and private sector industry professionals across multiple inter-related disciplines addressing catastrophic events to convene. Participants are industry leaders whose actions and policies shape the

The topics of lectures are listed bellow: What is disaster management? What are the basic terms used in this discipline (hazard, vulnerability, risk, mitigation, reparedness, response, recovery etc)? Understanding earthquake hazard Understanding tsunami

The Climate Change Commission (CCC), through Project Climate Twin Phoenix, the City Government of Iligan, and the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) will be conducting a training on the use of the Climate Change Exposure