August 15 and September 21, 2012
Seminars on Disaster Resilience
U.S. Green Building Council Mississippi Chapter
Gulfport, Mississippi
Cost and Registration: $20 per session, open until filled
This seminar series looks at what can be done to build more disaster-resilient structures and how we can harden those already built. The August seminar will address the wind and impact resistance of community shelters, as well as ways to adapt historic structures for wind and flood resilience. The September seminar will discuss sustainable landscape design and coastal living, and new models for transitional housing used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
September 23-27, 2012
Emergency Preparedness & Hazmat Response Conference
City of Baltimore Local Emergency Planning Committee
Baltimore, Maryland
Cost and Registration: $235 before August 10, open until filled
This conference offers training and certification for emergency managers, first responders, and local emergency planners. Topics include community preparedness, criminal and anti-terrorism video surveillance, railroad safety and response, radiation awareness, disaster debris management, the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness grant program, and chlorine safety and emergency response.
September 24-25, 2012
Barrier Based Risk Management Network Event
CGE Risk Management Solutions
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cost and Registration: $304, open until filled
This conference will discuss emergency incident management for a wide range of businesses and allow for cross-industry networking. Topics include effective incident investigation, resilience analysis, organizational culture and safety management, qualitative risk assessments in a financial context, and a beginner’s introduction to incident analysis.
October 10-12, 2012
First Biennial Conference for Risk Reduction
African Center for Disaster Studies at North-West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
Cost and Registration: $510, open until filed
This conference will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the African Center for Disaster Studies with presentations that address academic and professional approaches to disaster risk reduction. Topics include building resilience to disasters using gender mainstreaming in Botswana, contingency planning for disaster preparedness and response in southern Africa, integrating disaster risk reduction into South African municipal development, and the magnitude and frequency of flash floods in northern Nigeria.
October 24-26, 2012
Advances in Hurricane Engineering Conference
American Society of Civil Engineers
Miami, Florida
Cost and Registration: $775 before October 12, open until filled
This conference will discuss how designs are becoming more resilient to powerful hurricanes. Topics include hurricane damage mitigation in the Caribbean and Latin America, performance-based wind engineering, wind effects on power systems, hurricane-resistant design for coastal residential structures, hurricane wind loads on high-rise buildings, and the evolution of building codes, construction practices, and code enforcement after Hurricane Andrew.
November 7-8, 2012
Fourth International Conference on Geo-Information Technology for Natural Disaster Management
Geoinformatics Center of the Asian Institute of Technology
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Cost and Registration: $300, open until filled
This conference will present technological advancements for understanding natural hazards and their impacts. Topics include climate impacts on Himalayan glacier dynamics and water resources, intelligent evacuation route identification systems, a preliminary study on intraplate earthquakes in the Indian Ocean, a conceptual model for landslide prediction in Sri Lanka, cloud computing as an approach to natural disaster management, drought monitoring using GIS and remote sensing in Rajasthan, India, and the effects of coastal land use on tsunami inundation along the South Indian Coast.