The IRCD Researchers Meeting, a partnership between the International Sociological Association's International Research Committee on Disasters and the Natural Hazards Center, follows the main Hazards Workshop. For more information on the IRCD, please

Recovery from a disaster event requires a whole-community approach. This workshop gives an overview of long term recovery and shares lessons learned and best practices gathered from decades of experience in large and small disasters.

The 1st CoSaCM aims to bring together the academia and industry in the crucial sector of safety and crisis management. The conference will deal with the whole safety process, from the occurrence of the accident, and the management of its consequences to

The Earthquake Vulnerability Reduction Course (EVRC) has been designed to achieve the goal of supporting the creation of earthquake resilient society. With rich experiences in providing similar training courses on natural disaster risk reduction at

The health systems of countries in crisis are often weak and unable to address the increased health needs of the population. Moreover, health workers in these countries often have limited capacity to analyse the major features and weaknesses of the health

Earthquake risks and the diversity of the related fields cause more challenge and initiate more applied and scientific research with the necessity of presenting new solutions and introducing innovative methods for decreasing such risks. During the

The NFC is a yearly event that is part educational, part professional, and part social, offering activities for anyone involved in the mitigation field. It also serves as a meeting ground for various stakeholders who do not otherwise get a chance to