This course is designed to enable practitioners to operate efficiently during an incident or event within the Incident Command System (ICS). This course focuses on the management of single resources. The objectives of the ICS course is to provide

The Australasian Hazards Management Conference is run annually, alternating between locations in New Zealand and Australia. Workshop titles Day 1, 5th August 2009, Morning Workshop 1: Building tsunami resilient communities Workshop 2: Climate change

The Disaster Experience is an interactive workshop that will highlight the symbiotic and interdependent relationship between engineers and emergency managers. Every disaster is not created equally and this experience has been designed to place

The Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop is designed to bring hazards researchers and practitioners from many disciplines together for face-to-face discussions on issues and trends that affect how society deals with hazards and

An event working to consolidate the industries which comprise the entire disaster preparation, response, recovery, and rebuilding cycle. It will include the following keynotes: - Assistant Administrator of Mitigation: Presented by the FEMA National

During the last decade, more than one billion people have been affected by disasters. While natural hazards do not discriminate on the basis of gender, or any other social characteristics, resilience to disasters is affected in important ways and on a

The programme is designed to train senior public officials mainly drawn from disaster management agencies and other institutions with the responsibility for supporting disaster risk reduction and disaster management within the Commonwealth so as to