October 8, 2015
Stefan Simon discussed emergency preparedness and disaster response at the Smithsonian’s conference “Uniting to Save World Cultures: Investigating the Attributes of Successful Emergency Cultural Heritage Protection Interventions” in Washington on October 7th.
He responded on options of reducing hazard and vulnerability as discussant to a presentation by Terry Cannon (Senior Research a Fellow in Climate Change and Development, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) , which explained disaster as a social construction.
The conference website is http://unitetosave.si.edu. The webcast is at http://unitetosave.si.edu/events/.
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