Showing posts with label China and INDR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China and INDR. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

UN efforts concerning International Disaster Reduction!

Furnished by Dr. Jane Rovins,PhD, now living in China and formerly in FEMA REGION IV! AS I always told my clients and staff in FEMA opportunities existed to develop and become not just a national but also international expert on disaster issues. After all Mother Nature Does NOT Grant Variances. Nor apparently does technology and human developed systems and processes.

So here goes:

This is a message from the United Nations' Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction to the delegates of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) (my conference - it was part of the opening address) and my programme (IRDR)....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECDgR_G4cg&feature=youtu.be

We will have more pictures and video up in the next week or so...