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Conference Topics

Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR)

  • Ecosystem services for human well-being
  • The interlinkages between ecosystems, natural hazards and disasters
  • The interlinkages between environmental degradation and disaster risks
  • The interlinkages between ecosystem management, sustainable development and DRM
  • Tools for integrating ecosystem management into disaster risk management (DRM)
  • Ecosystem management before, during and after disaster
  • Incorporating ecosystems in risk assessments
  • Integrated ecosystem management approaches for disaster risk reduction
    • Integrated Water Resources Management
    • Integrated Coastal Management
    • Integrated Fire Management
    • Sustainable Land Management
  • Protected area management for disaster risk reduction and society resilience
  • Forest management: mitigating wildfire risks through ecosystem strategies
  • Coastal protection and restoration for coastal hazards and community resilience
  • Water management: natural solutions for drought and floods
  • Implementing ecosystem management to manage disaster risk
  • Hybrid infrastructures to reduce disaster risk
  • Ecosystem-based adaptation to build resilience to climate change

Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for the resilience of our plane

  • Reducing disaster risk and building resilient cities with nature
  • Urban ecosystems for eco-DRR
  • Urban planning for resilience
  • Nature-based solutions in urban heat island mitigation
  • NBS through agricultural practices: sustainable farming for disaster risk reduction
  • NBS for climate change and adaptation
  • Indigenous knowledge: traditional ecological practices for modern resilience
  • Community-led restoration projects and their impacts

Policy and Governance

  • Implementing sustainable development goals and Sendai Framework through Eco-DRR
  • The approaches of UN to Eco-DRR
  • The approaches of EU to Eco-DRR
  • Trends towards the integration of Eco-DRR approaches into disaster risk management policies and policy level approaches
  • Policy frameworks: enabling Eco-DRR and challenges and opportunities for Eco-DRR
  • Mainstreaming Eco-DRR into national policies, strategies and implementations
  • Financing nature-based solutions
  • Collaborative governance: multi-stakeholder approaches to Eco-DRR
  • Private sector partnerships in Eco-DRR
  • The role of local communities and community-based tools for Eco-DRR
  • The role of women in Eco-DRR and gender-sensitive Eco-DRR
  • Vulnerable groups and their roles in ecosystem-based disaster management
  • Public awareness and education: building a resilient community mindset