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Two disaster conferences in London: 1. UCL IRDR Third Academic Summit, 24 Junehttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/rdr/events-news-publication/academic-summit-2015 2. UCL IRDR Fifth Annual Conference, 25 Junehttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/rdr/events-news-publication/irdr-5th-annual-conference (full announcement below). We would like to invite you to attend a one-day conference on risk and disaster reduction in London on 25th June 2015. The conference is free, but you need to pre-register. See full invitation below: You are invited to attendUCL IRDR Fifth Annual ConferenceThursday 25th June 2015, 09:00 – 20:00, UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre and South CloistersUniversity College London, main quadrangle, South WingGower Street, London WC1E 6BT A day of thought-provoking discussions, talks by experts and presentation of the latest research on risk and disaster reduction, aimed at researchers and practitioners, NGOs and City professionals, and the interested public. This event is free to attend, but you need to register here. Conference Themes:Current Views of Future Arctic RisksVisualisation and Presentation of Hazards and RisksEmergence and Management of the Ebola CrisisCalculating, Portraying, Understanding and Reducing Risk Keynote address on, “Communicating Risk and Hazard to Policy Makers” by Prof Sir Mark Walport, FRS, Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government. Other speakers include:Dr Michael von Bertele CB OBE FRCP, Humanitarian Director, Save the ChildrenProf Lord Julian Hunt, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Climate Modelling, UCLCaptain Tim Stockings, Operations Director, British Antarctic SurveyTobias Sturt, Guardian Masterclasses in Data Visualisation Full UCL IRDR Fifth Annual Conference programme, session details, speaker bios, and registration link here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You have been sent this email because you are a registered member of the Disaster Resilience mailing list: This is a 'lightly' moderated list. If you wish to send a message to the list 'reply' or post to: [log in to unmask] If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from this list go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/disaster-resilience and follow the subscribe/unsubscribe instructions For more options, visit this group at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/disaster-resilience - The Disaster Resilience list aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the complex term, resilience; and to identify the key dimensions of resilience across a range of disciplines and domains. - The creation of this list is linked to the FP7 project, emBRACE: Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe www.embrace-eu.org - emBRACE is jointly co-ordinated by Prof Debby Sapir (Universite Catholique De Louvain) and Dr Maureen Fordham (Northumbria University) - This DISASTER-RESILIENCE discussion list was launched on 13 October 2011, International Day for Disaster Reduction http://www.unisdr.org/2011/iddr/. The List is managed by Maureen Fordham, John Twigg and Hugh Deeming - The emBRACE project has received funding from the European Communitys Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 283201. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information shared on this list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~