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NEEDS 2022

NEEDS 2022 Conference on Global Disasters

By Knowledge Network – Staff member

COPE and other international partners is going to organise the next edition of the NEEDS Conference on Global Disasters, on 1-3 November 2022.

Key information

Date(s)
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Location
Copenhagen, Denmark
Attendance type
Face-to-face

Description

The NEEDS conference aims to explore the status quo of disaster research and management. The overall theme for the conference will be Global Disasters with a focus on Health and Climate Change and disaster risk reduction and its intersections with development, both at global and local perspective. Registration to the event will be open from August 15 and October 1.

Disasters research is ever more salient today. Weather related incidents fueled by climate change have filled the news for years while the Covid-19 pandemic has overshadowed everything else during the past year and a half. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlights the need for immediate global attention and that radical societal transformation is required in the coming years to limit dangerous climate change. Global disasters, both present and future, have become part of common understanding and the public debate.

The conference wishes to harness its broad, interdisciplinary expertise by gathering disaster researchers from academic institutions and practitioners from the disaster management community (European and beyond) to build networks and to discuss the most pressing issues in disaster research across the academic and practical disciplines.