International Workshop on Community Risk Assessment

Content:

On 31 May - 2 June, 2005 a three-day International Workshop on Community Risk Assessment was held in Cape Town, hosted by the Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, University of Cape Town, in collaboration with the ProVention Consortium. The workshop was attended by more than forty five delegates from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific, Caribbean and the Americas and included representatives from academic institutions, international non-governmental organisations and their partner organisations, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, community-based organisations and midlevel and local government officials with extensive experience in community risk assessment. This report was compiled following the proceedings of the International Workshop on Community Risk Assessment. In addition to the workshop four key academics in the field of disaster risk reduction were asked to reflect critically on the workshop, namely Ian Davis from Cranfield University, Mark Pelling from King's College London, Allan Lavell from La Red and Vanessa Dantas from DiMP.

Organisation:

Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme (DiMP), University of Cape Town

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0.7MB, pdf

Language:

English