California Institute of Environmental Design and Management
Mission
CIEDM's missions include:
- Advocate grass-root initiative for sustainable & adaptive environment;
- Promote individual's eco-lifestyles and actions to save resources and reduce climate/environmental/geological hazards & disasters;
- Facilitate green buildings & sustainable development;
- Bridge green education and business between the U.S. & Asia.
Sponsor Educational Workshops on community-based disaster preparedness, reduction and recovery
Sponsor an annual event on the International Day for Disaster Reduction
Great California ShakeOut
Southern California Earthquake Country Alliance Associates
Global Network for Disaster Reduction
The Climate Reality Project
Pre-disaster
- Preparedness education
- Planning & design for resilient, adaptive & sustainable development
Post-disaster
- Reconstruction & redevelopment
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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/edward-huang-??/12/492/52a
Delivered speeches on the subject of blue urbanism+regionalism for resilient communities in several colleges & universities in China since 2011. The speeches aim to raise public awareness of that disasters often not just come from a community itself but from unsound regional development that causes environmental degradation & breakdown. Investment in building "defensive"communities for resilience may not be able to keep them disaster free. Efforts shall be placed on environmental sensitive planning & development for the region overall.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.