Geoscience Australia is engaging in capacity building for disaster-risk management in the Asia-Pacific region. In a technical workshop, 40 representatives from 13 developing nations are trained to improve their capacity to assess natural hazard risk. The training includes hazard and risk modeling tools including how to develop hazard maps and impact scenarios for earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and tropical cyclones.
On the 1st of July, Asia-Pacific countries ended three days of talks at a United Nations forum in Bankok, agreeing to work more closely together on disaster risk reduction and make this central to national development strategies. Ministers and senior government officials from 31 countries, who met at the Second Session of the Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction, a subsidiary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), have asked the UN to help promote regional cooperation to minimize the adverse socio-economic and environmental impact of disasters.
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