Session 4: It Is Not Too Late: Preparing for East Asia’s Next Big Earthquake

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Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific – 2010 Distance Learning Seminar Series

October 25, 14:30-17:30 (JST)

The overall objective of this session is impart knowledge on reducing earthquake risk through promotion of safer construction, dissemination of good practice for new and existing infrastructure, and increasing the level of preparedness.

In this session, Peter Yanev, Senior Earthquake Specialist, Yanev Associates and Senior Consultant to the World Bank, one of the world’s top seismologists, to do a policy-note on preparing for East Asia’s next big earthquake. We will release the note during the upcoming Asian Ministerial Conference on DRR in Korea. Yanev is collaborating with local one local expert in China, Philippines and Indonesia. Another top seismologist , Professor T. C. Pan, Dean of NTU’s College of Engineering and Director of the Protective Technology Research Center, will speak on various aspects of seismic vulnerability reduction. 

Abhas K. Jha, World Bank Regional Coordinator for DRM, will moderate the session. This session is fourth in a series of sessions on disaster risk management.  After attending the session, participants should be able to:

1. Know how to utilize seismic risk information into land use plans and building codes
2. Be informed about the challenges and opportunities in reducing seismic vulnerability, and
3. Learn from global good practices in seismic vulnerability reduction.

Agenda and key issues to present and discuss
• A short opening to introduce participants, program and
• A brief overview of earthquake vulnerability reduction
• Case studies and experiences
• Q&A and general discussion
•Conclusions

Target Audience
-　 EAP professional staff working on DRM
-  ASEAN and SOPAC member state counterparts
-  National and sub national government officials,
-  Other partners and stakeholders such as academics, private sector practitioners, civil society groups that are active in the area of disaster risk management, environment, infrastructure, and finance in the ASEAN and SOPAC member states.
- World Bank staff in country offices

Speakers
Mr. Peter I. Yanev
Senior consultant of the World Bank
President of EQRM International Inc.

Professor Pan Tso-Chien
Founding director of ICRM
Dean, College of Engineering
Director, Protective Technology Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Main moderator
Abhas K. Jha, Regional Coordinator, Disaster Risk Management, East Asia and the Pacific, The World Bank

Language
VC Session: English. Simultaneous translation is available at each site as required.

Registration
Please send us your name, organization, telephone number and e-mail address by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or FAX (03-3597-9161).

There will be live-webcasting on the day of the session. A button allowing access to the live stream of the event will appear on the main program page shortly before the event begins.
To view webcasting, participants will need a PC with internet access, Windows media Player Version 10.0.

Partners

This session is part of a larger program. For more information see Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific - 2010 Series