IFNet Newsletter Vol. 27
Jan 12, 2005 / IFNet secretariat |
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The IFNet 2nd General Meeting will be held on January 19, from 14:00 -
17:00 at the International Conference Center Kobe.
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The Recommendation of IFNet
for the 2nd General Meeting is newly uploaded |
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TOWARDS FLOOD DISASTERS REDUCTION
Flood disasters have been occurring in many parts of the world every year
resulting in extensive losses. Although continuous and steady efforts have
been made aiming at flood disaster reduction, statistics show that flood
disasters seem to be rising rather than abating. Under the circumstances
IFNet of which task is to tackle on flood disaster reduction through network
activities presents its recommendation as a summary of the 2nd General
Meeting of IFNet held on 19 Jan. 2005 in conjunction with UN WCDR in Kobe.
I. FLOOD DISASTERS
1. Situation in Recent Years
2. Factors of Increasing Flood Disasters
3. Inadequate Recognition of Risk
II. COUNTERMEASURES RO BE PROMOTED
1. Disaster Information to All People in Dangerous Areas
2. Disaster Information Leading to People's Evacuation in Dangerous Areas
3. Normal Time Measures Leading to People's Evacuation in Emergency
4. Approaches from Whole Society
5. Optimum Combination of Hard and Soft Measures
Please check the attached recommendation through the link below. http://www.internationalfloodnetwork.org/word/english/IFNetrecommendaton_e.doc
The Agenda and Action Plan of IFNet is also being proposed, please click below to download: (Agenda of the 2nd general meeting of IFNet) http://www.internationalfloodnetwork.org/word/english/IFNet2ndGM(Agenda).doc (Tentative future action plan of IFNet forward) http://www.internationalfloodnetwork.org/word/english/IFNetactionplan.doc
The secretariat will be announcing the collected ideas at the 2nd General Meeting!
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