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News and Highlights
Number of Declared Disasters in 2012:
11 (as of Apr. 1)
Building a Resilient Louisiana Workshop Architects, engineers, planners and builders will benefit from a two-day workshop where coastal construction practices and the unique challenges of designing and building in coastal Louisiana will be discussed. Building a Resilient Louisiana will be held May 15-16, 2012, in the Dalton Woods Auditorium at the Energy, Coast and Environment building on LSU’s Baton Rouge campus. For more information and registration see Workshop Information
UNU-EHS/MRF Summer Academy 2012 United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the Munich Re Foundation invite qualified PhD students to apply for the 2012 Summer Academy “From Social Vulnerability to Resilience: Measuring Progress toward Disaster Risk Reduction”. Applicants should have an interdisciplinary focus and work on research or dissertations related to measuring social vulnerability and resilience in the context of disaster risk management. The seventh Summer Academy will take place 1-7 July 2012 in Munich, Germany. For more information see Call for applications
Special Issue on Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development For more information see Sustainability, 2011(3)
Special Issue on Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: For more information see Natural Hazards, 58(2)
Ongoing Internship Opportunities with the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Unit!
For more information see Job Opportunities.
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New Publications
The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses
in the United States
by M. Gall, K.A. Borden, C.T. Emrich, and S.L. Cutter. 2011. Sustainability 3(11): 2157-2181.
Dynamics of Disaster
edited by R.A. Dowty and B.L. Allen
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