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Opportunities for British Involvement in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
Author(s) -
DAVIS IAN
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1992.tb00405.x
Subject(s) - natural disaster , library science , disaster risk reduction , poison control , position (finance) , human factors and ergonomics , political science , operations research , engineering , medicine , engineering ethics , medical emergency , business , computer science , environmental planning , geography , finance , meteorology
The UK Science, Technology and Engineering Committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) was jointly established by The Fellowship of Engineering and The Royal Society, in 1990. Its purpose is to promote the aims of the IDNDR with particular reference to disaster risk reduction within developing countries. In order to provide a forum for people with a wide range of experience in this field to meet and exchange views, the Committee convened a one‐day Workshop, held at The Royal Society in London on 27 March 1992. The following is a shortened version of a position paper (originally drafted by Ian Davis and subsequently approved by the Committee), setting out seven ‘priorities’ for the IDNDR, which formed the basis of discussion at the Workshop.