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January 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
10-12 Bridgetown, Barbados First Meeting of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions
Contact details: www.ioc.unesco/iocaribe
12-14 Colombo, Sri Lanka Second International Conference on Disaster Management-Rehabilitation, reconstruction and Long-Term Development
Contact details: www.mindlanka.org
17-18 Khartoum, Sudan African Union Summit
17-18 Indonesia 2nd National Meeting (Indonesian Agency for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction)
17-19   London, United Kingdom International Joint Operations Command Conference 2006
Contact details: www.ijocc2006.com
18 London, UK Environment and Society Forum Dinner Discussion “From Caribbean Hurricanes to Indian Floods: Experience and Lessons Learned for Disaster Reduction” by Action Aid
Contact details: www.rgs.org
18-20 Tokyo, Japan Round Table Discussion for global network of International Programme on Landslides organized by ICL and Kyoto University
18-20 Paris, France Inter-Agency Meeting for Outer Space Activities
19 Bangkok, Thailand Education for Disaster Preparedness in Primary School
19-20 Bangkok, Thailand Regional Implementation Meeting for Asia and the Pacific for 14th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
Contact details: www.unescap.org/esd/rim
23-27 Quito, Ecuador Cities on Volcanoes 4 (COV4)
Contact details: www.citiesonvolcanoes4.com
24-26 Tsukuba, Japan International Workshop on Flood Risk Management
Contac details: www.epocal.or.jp/english/
24-27 Bangkok, Thailand Regional Workshop on CBDRM Standards for the South East Asia Region
25-26 Geneva, Switzerland 2006 International Aid and Trade Event
Contact details: www.aidandtrade.org
25-26 Jakarta, Indonesia ASEAN Regional Workshop on Standby Arrangements and Standard Operating Procedures (Emergency Relief Component)
26-27 Colombo, Sri Lanka UNU-EHS Workshop
27 Jakarta, Indonesia The 6th Meeting of ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM)
29 Atlanta, USA International Session on Multi-hazards Warning Systems hosted by NOAA’s National Weather Service
30-31 Bangkok, Thailand Second US Indian Ocean Tsunami Earning System (IOCTWS)
30-04/02 Dhaka, Bangladesh The 33rd Session of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones

February 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
2-3 Bangkok, Thailand ProVention Consortium Forum 2006: Strengthening Global Collaboration in Disaster Risk Reduction
Contact details: www.proventionconsortium.org
9-10 Suva, Fiji Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Meeting
Contact details: www.sopac.org
16-24 Cape Town, South Africa Fourteenth session of the Commission for Atmospheric Sciences
Contact details: www.wmo.int
16-17 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia TICAD Conference on Consolidation of Peace
20 Geneva, Switzerland International Board Meeting of CIIFEN
Contact details: j.Camacho@ciifen-int.org
20-24 Phuket, Thailand International Workshop on Post Disaster Assessment and Monitoring of Coastal Ecosystems and Biological and Cultural Diversity in the Indian Ocean and Asian Waters
20/02-3/03 Vienna, Austria Forty-third session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
Contact details: www.unoosa.org
23 Paris, France Conference organized by Association Francaise pour la prevention des Catastrophes Naturelles (AFPCN) on the lessons learnt by Europe from cyclone Katrina
28/2-2/3 Guatemala City, Guatemala Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Preparedness and Response in Central America
Contact details: clavier@un.org

March 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
1-2 Sydney, Australia Australasia 2006 iETRI World Conference on Global Disaster Management and Response “Beyond the Horizon – Are We Really Prepared”
Contact details: www.ietri2006.com
3 Slavutych, Ukraine First General Assembly of European Forum Local and Regional Disaster Management
Contact details: www.coe.int/congress
6-8 Vienna, Austria 3rd International Symposium of Systems and Human Science: Complex Systems Approaches for Safety, Security and Reliability
Contact details: www.palaisevents.at
8-10 Bangkok, Thailand Fourth Disaster Management Practioneers Workshop for South East Asia
9-11 Kochi, Japan International Symposium on Management System for Disaster Prevention (ISMD2006)
Contact details: www.kochi-tech.ac/jp/coe21/ismd/call.html
13-17 San José, Costa Rica International Workshop on Flash Flood Forecasting
Contact details: www.wmo.int
15-16 Lyon, France Colloque Valeurs Rares et Extrêmes de Précipitations et de Débits pour une meilleure maîtrise des Risques
Contact details : www.shf.asso.fr
15-17 Seoul, Republic of Korea Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction 2006 – Towards the Realization of the Strategic Goal of the Hyogo Framework for Action Contact details: www.adrc.or/jp/acdr2006seoul/index.html
16-22 Mexico 4th World Water Forum
Contact details: www.worldwaterforum4.org.mx
20 Mexico Asia-Pacific Water Ministerial Meeting
Contact details: www.waterforum.jp
21-22 Geneva, Switzerland Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System – GDACS Annual Stakeholders Meeting
Contact details: www.ungiwg.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/unoosa-stdm
22-23 Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates The 6th International Conference on the Geology of the Middle East
Contact details: www.fsc.uaeu.ac.ae/Geology/conf/midle_east.htm
27-29 Bonn, Germany Third International Conference on Early Warning
Contact details: www.ewc3.org
30/03/4/04 San Juan, Puerto Rico Twenty-eighth session of the RA IV Hurricane Committee

April 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
3 Belo Horizonte, Brazil Seminar “Integrated Financing Approach to Disaster Risk Management”
Contact details: ligiaes@iadb.org
11-12 Geneva, Switzerland International Conference “Desertification, Hunger and Poverty”
18-20 Lima, Peru UNFCCC Latin American Regional Workshop on Adaptation
Contact details: www.unfccc.int
18-22 San Francisco, USA 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference, Commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Contact details: www.1906eqconf.org
19-21 Minsk, Belarus International Conference “Chernobyl After 20 Years: Strategy of Rehabilitation and Sustainable Development of the Affected Regions”
Contact details: www.chernobyl.gov.by/en/
26-28 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Symposium “Preventing Disasters and Minimizing Their Consequences”
Contact details: www.hsph.harvard.edu/disasters
26-28 Sofia, Bulgaria Second Technical Workshop on the Establishment of a Subregional Centre relating to Drought in South-Eastern Europe in the context of the UNCCD
Contact details: www.unccd.int

May 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
9-11 Gallagher Estate, Midrand, Johannesburg, South AFrica 5th African Aid Relief and Disaster Management Expo and Conference 2006
Contact details: www.aidexpo.co.za
2-4 Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa 5th African Aid Relief and Disaster Management Expo and Conference 2006
Contact details: www.aidexpo.com
14-19 Istanbul, Turkey NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Management of Urban Earthquake Risk in Central Asian and Caucasus Countries”
Contact details: http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/depremmuh/natoconference/nato.htm
15-17 Stockholm, Sweden A Future with Zero CO2 Emissions
Contact details: www.iclei.org/itc/stockholm2006
16-19 Abuja, Nigeria Disaster Management Conference
Contact details: www.mmf.org.ng
17-25 Bonn, Germany First Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol
Contact details: http://www.unfccc.int
18-26 Bonn, Germany Twenty-fourth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
Contact details: http://www.unfccc.int
18-26 Bonn, Germany Twenty-fourth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation
Contact details: http://www.unfccc.int
22-26 Brazzaville, Republic of Congo 11th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN)
Contact details: amcensec@unep.org
23-24 Geneva, Switzerland Symposium on “Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems for Integrated Disaster Risk Management”
Contact details: www.wmo.int
24-25 Hawaii, USA Tsunami Symposium in Hawaii
Contact details: www.sthjournal.org/2006.pdf

June 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
2 Toronto, Canada A Workshop on the Principles of Disaster Management
Sponsored by The University of Toronto and York University
Contact details: www.environment.utoronto.ca
7 Geneva, Switzerland Université de Genève Round table « Prevention – preparedness : the role of IOs and NGOs and their professional needs
Contact details: www.unige.ch/hazards/cerg
13-14 Madrid (Spain) I International Conference on Environmental Conflicts and Disasters Prevention
Contact details: Julián Uriarte, ategrus@ategrus.org
http://www.ategrus.org/precedes/Precedes%20eng.htm
13-16 Havana, Cuba 7th International Congress on Disasters
Contact details: www.cpalco.com; www.loseventos.cu/desastres2006
13-16 Saint Petersburg, Russia International Forum “Safety of Natural, Man-Made and Fire Disasters in Russia”
Contact details: kakusha@mchs.gov.ru
17 Bonn, Germany World Day to Combat Desertification
Contact details: www.iydd.org
18-21 Toronto, Canada 16th World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM)
Contact details: www.wcdm.org/
19-23 Vancouver, Canada Third Session of the World Urban Forum
Contact details: www.unhabitat.org
28-29 Verlag at Heidelberg, Germany 2006 International Consortium on Landslides Steering Committee Meeting
Contact details: http://icl.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

July 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
10-13 Bandar Seri Begavan, Brunei Darussalam International Forum on Disaster Relief
17-21 Espoo, Finland International Conference “Living with Climate Variability and Change: Understanding the Uncertainties and managing the Risks”
Contact details: www.livingwithclimate.fi/linked/en/Flyer.pdf
24-20 Charlotte, North Carolina, USA International Conference On Energy, Environment And Disasters (Inceed 2005)
Bridging the Gaps for Global Sustainable Development
Contact details: www.iseg.giees.uncc.edu/inceed2005
25/7-3/8 Alpbach, Austria Summer School Alpbach 2006 – Monitoring of Natural Hazards from Space
Contact details: www.isprs.org

August 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
26/8- 1/9 Davos, Switzerland International Disaster Reduction Conference, A Joint GADR-GDIN Conference, http://www.Davos2006.ch

September 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
14-16 Xalapa, Mexico 3rd National Meeting of the Federation of Mexican Colleges of Civil Engineering
Contact details: www.ecologia.edu.mx
14-22 Graz, Austria The 9th International Symposium on High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography (HMRSC-IX)
Contact details: www.uni-graz.at/
19-20 New York, USA Headquarters High-Level Meeting on the Mid-term comprehensive global review on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010
25-27 Amsterdam, the Netherlands IWA Conference “Innovations in coping with water and climate related risks”
Contact details: www.moorga.com
25/09-7/10 Miramare, Trieste, Italy Eighth Workshop on Three-Dimensional Modelling of Seismic Waves Generation, Propagation and their Inversion
Contact details: www.ictp.it/
26-28 Bochum, Germany 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management
Contact details: www.conventus.de/water
26-29 Moscow, Russia International Conference on the Problems of Hydrometeorological Security (prediction and adaptation of the society to the extreme climate changes),
Contact details: http://hms2006.meteoinfo.ru

October 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
4-6 Goettingen, Germany The 2nd Goettingen GIS and Remote Sensing Days “Global Change Issues in Developing and Emerging Countries”
Contact details: www.ggrs.uni.goettingen.de
10-13 Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic The 12th Magdeburg Seminar on Protection of Waters_EU-Water Framework Directive (WFD)
Contact details: www.mgs.vltava.info

November 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
1-3 Tripoli, Lebanon The 3rd International Conference on the Water Resources in the Mediterranean Basin” WATMED 3
Contact details: www.watmed.com
6-17 Nairobi, Kenya UNFCCC: COP 12 and COP/MOP 2
7-10 Bangkok, Thailand 6th Asian Seismological Commission General Assembly 2006 (ASC 2006) and “Symposium on Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation”
Contact details: http://asc1996.netfirms.com or http://tmd.go.th/asc2006
9-10 Mumbai, India Second World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR)
www.wcdr.gfdr.org/
21-22 Paris, France UNESCO, The 5th Session of ICL Board of Representatives and the 5th ICL Symposium
Contact details: http://icl.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

December 2006

Date Location Meeting or Conference
   

2007

Date Location Meeting or Conference

14-16 May

Tehran, Iran 5th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering
www.iiees.ac.ir/SEE5/
25-27 June Toronto. Ontario, Canada 3rd International Symposium on Geoinformation for Disaster Management (Gi4DM2007)
Contact details: junli@ryerson.ca

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