The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has published a report, "Global Natural Hazards and Disaster Reduction". The report is based on discussions that took place at an international workshop held in Phuket, Thailand, 29-30 September 2005. For more information, contact: zywang@cashq.ac.cn.

Contact: zywang@cashq.ac.cn

Latest Activities:

The IAP Natural Disaster Mitigation initiative has streamlined its 2006 working plan as follows:

- modify and to streamline the document “Global Natural Hazards and Disaster Reduction”
- draft a statement on natural disaster mitigation
- design example frameworks of emergency response for developing countries where major hazards occur.

The working group has been in contact with the Committee on DATA for S&T (CODATA) and jointly co-sporsored a regional workshop  with CODATA Task Group on Data Sources in Asian-Oceanic Countries (DSAO) in Thailand 12-13 Jan, 2006. See: http://www.codata.org/taskgroups/TGasian/DSAO2006agenda.html for more information on the workshop.