Editor's Corner

 Theme

• Flood Forecasting and Warning in Bangladesh

 Insight

• Improving the Effectiveness of Flood Preparedness

 ADPC Programs & Activities

• Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER) Updates
• Disaster Reduction Program for Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam (DRP-CLV) Updates
• Partnerships for Disaster Reduction in South East Asia (PDR-SEA) Updates
• Internationally Acclaimed Scientist Dr Michael Glantz Speaks on Climate-Society Interactions at AIT
• Asian Climate Training (ACT) Workshop
• Climate Forecasting Application in Bangladesh: A New Vision to Manage Floods
• ADPC Assists the Thai Government in Setting Up its National Disaster Management Center
• Second Consultative Meeting on Total Disaster Risk Management in Asia

Upcoming Events

• Summit on Enhancement of Urban Safety and Urban Security in the 21st Century
• AUDMP’s First Regional Lessons Learned Workshop in September 2002
  

 Training & Education

• New Course on Flood Risk Mitigation (FRM-1)
• Capacity Building in Disaster Management: A Way to Nation-Building in East Timor
• Changing Concepts of Disaster Management

 AUDMP Making cities safer

• Seminar on Institutional Arrangements for Total Risk Management: Visions for Thailand’s New Disaster Management Agency
• Earthquake Vulnerability Reduction for Cities (EVRC-1) Course
• What is Social Marketing?

 Bookmarks

• Recent Publications

 Book Review

• DISASTER AND DEVELOPMENT: THE POLITICS OF HUMANITARIAN AID. Neil Middleton and Phil O’Keefe, Pluto Press, London, 1998

 WWW Sites

• Association of State Floodplain Managers
• Dartmouth Flood Observatory
• Denmark DHI Water and Environment
• Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre