United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP)
This week the UN ESCAP group is holding a series of meetings in Bangkok aimed at disaster resilience and reduction of natural diasters for Asia and the Pacific. A report and a website document the problems. The report is particularly interesting in that it links natural disasters with financial disasters such as the current global crisis and suggests common approaches.
About OpenHazards Bloggers
Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz. He specializes in the quantification and simulation of
natural hazards. Read Steve's blog.
John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Geology at UC Davis and
the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He
chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.