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Programme at a Glance

Friday, 6 June 2014

08:30 – 17:30         REGISTRATION

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Saturday, 7 June 2014

09:00 – 10:15         Opening Ceremony

10:15 – 10:45          Coffee and Tea Break

10:45 – 12:00         PLENARY I: TRANSLATING SCIENCE INTO ACTION

12:00 – 13:30         Lunch

13:30 – 15:15           BREAKOUT SESSIONS

• Assessing Risk
• Community Disaster Reduction
• Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA)
• Empowering Local Officials

15:15 – 15:45         Coffee and Tea Break

15:45 – 17:30         BREAKOUT SESSIONS

• Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development
• Integrated Risk Sciences
• Forensic Investigations of Disasters (FORIN)
• Risk Reduction Planning

19:00                           WELCOME BANQUET

END OF DAY 1

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Sunday, 8 June 2014

09:00 – 10:30         PLENARY SESSION II: THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN THE 2015 AGENDA

10:30 – 11:00          Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 – 12:15           PLENARY SESSION III: WATER

12:15 – 13:30           Lunch

13:30 – 15:15           BREAKOUT SESSIONS

• Water and Disasters
• Science and National Politics
• Indigenous and Vulnerable Populations
• Capacity Building

15:15 – 15:45            Coffee and Tea Break

15:45 – 17:30           BREAKOUT SESSIONS

• Science and the Post-2015 Natural Hazard Agenda
• Risk Indexing
• The Gap Between Disaster Knowledge, Policy and Practice (Society for Applied Anthropology (SFA) Topical Interest Group on Disasters)
• Data and Technology

END OF DAY 2

 

Monday, 9 June 2014

09:00 – 10:30            PLENARY SESSION IV: SCIENCE AND THE MEDIA

10:30 – 11:00             Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30             PLENARY SESSION V: RESILIENCY AND RECONSTRUCTION

12:30 – 13:30             Lunch

13:30 – 15:15              BREAKOUT SESSIONS

• Communications and the Media
• Meteorological Issues
• CAS-TWAS Special Session on Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Reduction in Developing Countries 
• Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Session: Opportunities for Innovative Use of Data in Disaster Research

15:15 – 15:45            Coffee and Tea Break

16:00 – 17:00            PLENARY VI: MOVING FORWARD

• Introducing the International Study Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (Tokyo, Japan, 14-16 January 2015)
• Conference Summary, Outcomes and Way Forward

END of 2nd IRDR CONFERENCE

 

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