ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE SECOND ASIAN PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON DISASTER MEDICINE
will be held from 10th to 13th September 1992
in MAKUHARI MESSE, CHIBA, JAPAN

The scientific programme includes:

• Recent development in disaster medicine
• Country report Water, Food, Urban Terrorism, Industrial waste, Environmental effects of bio-chemical intrusion, Natural disaster, Manmade disaster
• Triage, First aid, Transportation
• Interaction and cooperation in disaster management
• Emergency medicine
• Disaster epidemiology
• Health relief assistance
• APCDM's role in disaster preparedness
• IDNDR
• Search and rescue
• Early warning systems
• Ethics in risk management

For further information contact:
Japan Convention Services, Inc.
Nippon Press Center Bldg.
2-2-1, Uchisaiwai-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100
Japan
.Phone: 03-3508-1213
Fax: 03-3508-0820
Telex: J33104 JCSTOKYO

The scientific programme includes:

• Case Studies of Major Disasters Casualty Bureaux Management
• Communications
• Databases, GIS and Expert Systems
• Disaster Classification and Economics
• Disaster Funds Education and Training
• Emergency Plan Design
• Evacuation and Social Behaviour
• Fatality Issues
• Hazard/Risk Analysis
• Health, PTSD and Counselling
• Human Reliability and Disaster Avoidance
• International Perspectives
• Legal Issues in Emergency Planning
• Media Control and Information Preparation
• Safety Audits
• Transport Modelling
• Voluntary Sector Role in Emergencies
• Warning Systems and Public Evacuation
• One-day awareness workshops for non-experts given by faculty members of Lancaster University.
• Operational Research
• Expert Systems
• Database Management Systems
• Risk Assessment
• Geographical Information Systems
• Soft Systems Methodology

For further information contact:
The Conference Officer
Emergency Planning '91
Conference Office
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Bailrigg, Lancaster LAI 4YT, UK