The Seventh IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated Disaster Risk Management took place September 19-21, 2007 in Stresa on the Lake Maggiore, Italy.

The Forum was co-organized by

• the Institute for Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) of the Joint Research Centre, a Directorate-General of the European Commission
• the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) of Kyoto University
• and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

The choice of this year's theme – Coping with Disasters: Global Challenges for the 21st Century and Beyond – was motivated by the urgent need to think beyond the short-term disaster management goals to the challenges that lay ahead in an ever increasingly populated, urbanized, and complex world.

Venue
The Forum was held at the Grand Hotel Bristol in Stresa (Piedmont) on the western shore of the Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.

Optional Workshops
The Forum was preceded September 16-18 by the following workshops:

1. Implementation Science, CASiFiCA and DRH
   Date: September 16-17, 2007
   Organizer: Prof. Norio Okada, Hiroyuki Kameda
2. Young Scientists Session
   Date: September 16, 2007, afternoon
   Organizer: Muneta Yokomatsu
3. DFID Workshop
   Date: September 16-17, 2007
   Organizer: Marcus Moench
4. NATECH Risk Assessment and Management
   Date: September 17-18, 2007
   Organizers: Ana Maria Cruz and Elisabeth Krausmann
5. Cost-Benefit Analysis Workshop
   Date: 18 September, 2007
   Organizers: ProVention, IIASA