IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
29–31 July 2002

The second annual meeting of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) of the Kyoto University on Integrated Disaster Risk Management: Megacity Vulnerability and Resilience took place at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria, July 29–31, 2002. This year the meeting was co-sponsored by the Center for Hazards and Risk Research at Columbia University and by the Disaster Management Facility at the World Bank*.

The previous meeting, which took place in August 2001, focused on Reducing Socio-Economical Vulnerability. Last year's meeting followed two EuroConferences at IIASA on Global Change and Catastrophe Risk Management: Earthquake Risks in Europe, July 2000 and Flood Risks in Europe, June 1999.

The organizers were Aniello Amendola and Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer (IIASA), Norio Okada and Hirokazu Tatano (DPRI).

*) The IIASA-DPRI meeting was the first of a series of three meetings co-sponsored or sponsored by the World Bank on Megacity Vulnerability in 2002. The second meeting in this series of co-sponsored events was organized by the "Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative" (EMI), in Shanghai on October 31 - November 2, 2002, and focused on technical options for mitigating natural disaster risks and protecting communities. The third meeting was held at the World Bank, Washington D.C. on December 4-6, 2002 and focused on protecting critical infrastructure, the effects of privatization, identifying hot spots and the global dimensions of disasters.

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