Message from the Executive Director

Editor's Corner

  Theme

• Early Warning for Natural Hazard Mitigation
• Potential Value of Lead-time for Disaster Hazards
• Managing Chaos: The Disaster After the Disaster
• Tsunami Media Coverage & Global Humanitarian Ethics
• Enhancing Early-Warning Systems Identified as a Key Priority Area at the Hyogo Declaration

 From the Grassroots

• Forewarned is Forearmed: Future Tsunami Threats to Sri Lanka

  Insight

• Early Warning of Structural Collapse After a Disaster

  Announcements

• Second Round of ProVention Grants for Disaster Reduction Announced
• ADPC Monthly Updates

   ADPC Programs & Activities

• Regional Workshop to Review Current Capacity Building Initiatives in Asia & the Pacific
• Workshop on Mitigating Damage to Health Facilities
• Advisory Panel Meet to Shape RCC Project on Advocacy and Capacity Building for MDRD
• MDRD Project Formally Registered at the Second UN-ISDR World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR)

Training & Education

• Afghan Officials Discuss Disaster Risk Management Curriculum
• CBDRM Course for the Pacific Developed with ADPC Expertise
• CASITA-II Integrating Disaster Mitigation Tools into Higher Education

Bookmarks

• Recent Publications

  WWW Sites

• Selected Internet Resources