Session one (2:00 - 3:00pm)
Rapid-onset events - events facts and figures/science |
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Keynote
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Professor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government) |
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Rt Hon Kevin Barron MP (Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group for Earth Sciences) |
Earthquakes and tsunamis (incl. submarine landslides - Iceland/Norway, Canary Islands), Landslides and volcanoes.
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Professor Bill McGuire (Benfield Professor and Director, Benfield Hazard Research Centre Research School of Earth Sciences, University College London) |
Hurricanes, cyclones and tornadoes (weather disasters) including Hurricane Katrina 2005
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Stan Cornford (Royal Meteorological Society (RMS), Meteorological Office, World Meteorological Org, (WMO) Expert on human and economic impacts of severe weather conditions |
Session two (3:00 - 4:00pm)
Rapid-onset events - events facts and figures/science |
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Chair
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Professor Sir Gordon Conway FRS (Chief Scientific Adviser, department for International Development (DfID) |
| Monitoring/early warning systems satellites, photogrammetry and observational data (incl. for educational purposes). Local, global (Atlantic/Indian Ocean etc.) |
Nigel Press (British Association of Remote Sensing Companies (BARSC)) |
Pre-event warnings and risk reduction strategies, responses to warnings and to events. Worst-case scenario disaster planning for London. real-time and near real-time (individual, institutional, national and international co-operative) responses
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Mr Phil Woolas (Minister for London Resilience) |
Education and preparedness (UK and worldwide)
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Helena Molin-valdes (Deputy Head of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), Geneva) |
Session three (4:15 - 5:30pm)
Implications - public health/financial/social/ political |
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Chair
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Dr David Falvey (Executive Director, British Geological Survey (BGS)) |
| Public Health Implications (disease/water contamination/air contamination etc.) |
Dr John Simpson (Head, Emergency and Preparedness, Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Health Protection Agency (HPA), Portion Down) |
Risk/hazard/insurance - causes and consequences
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John Moore (Benfield ReMetrics) |
| Social (fear/instability/confidence), political (national/international/global and financial implications. National security |
Ed Clay (Overseas Development Institute (ODI)) |
Post-disaster reconstruction
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Professor Martin Culshaw (Manager, Urban Geoscience and Geological Hazards Programme, British Geological Survey) |
Plenary session - summing up and discussion
(4:15 - 5:30pm)
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Chair
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Professor Allan Rogers (All-Party Parliamentary Group for Earth Sciences |
