African Centre for Disaster Studies - NWU

Themes

Academic and research papers, practitioner reports/ field observations as well as Ph.D research papers (based on a current Ph.D title) will be presented. To facilitate a broad DRR focus, the papers will cover the following themes:

• Governance of disaster risk reduction;
• Urban dimensions of risk;
• Water as disaster risk;
• Disaster risk and gender issues;
• Climate change adaptation;
• Geo-spatial applications for disaster risk reduction;
• Risk assessment and early warning;
• New humanitarian challenges; and
• Disaster response and recovery.