Annals of the MBC - vol. 4 - n' 1 - March 1991
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 EMERGENCY PLANNING '91 INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Will be held from 8th to 11th September 1991
in LANCASTER, UK
organized by the Economic and Social Research Council's
North West Regional Research Laboratory
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
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