 Created
in 1987, the European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement
(EUR-OPA) is a platform for co-operation between European and Southern
Mediterranean countries in the field of major natural and technological
disasters. Its field of action covers the knowledge of hazards,
risk prevention, risk management, post-crisis analysis and rehabilitation.
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(23/01/2012)
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Review of
actions carried out
 In order to present an overall picture of its recent action, the
EUR-OPA Agreement has recently brought out two complementary documents:
- the brochure “Facing Risks Together”, gives a general presentation of the Agreement’s reason for being, of its fields of activity as well as its functioning;
- the document “From Marrakech to Saint Petersburg : 4 years of action of the EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement”, takes stock in more detail of the main results achieved during the four years between the two ministerial sessions of 2006 and 2010.
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 Publication
on
Ethical Principles on Disaster Risk Reduction
and People's Resilience
The
last publication of the EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement,
Ethical Principles on Disaster Risk Reduction and
Paople's Resilience,
concerns both natural and technological disasters. The
publication is intended to deal both with the dir ect
victims of disasters and with the other parties
involved, such as public civil defence organisations,
public servants of states affected by disasters and of
assisting states, and humanitarian NGOs.
The aim of this document is to establish, for the whole
process of dealing with disasters (from prevention
measures to reconstruction, including the actual crisis
period, so before, during and after disasters), what
moral obligations the various parties have, local
victims and rescuers alike, in the light of existing
rules of general international law, and particularly
those relating to international law of human rights.
Protection of Cultural Heritage
from seismic risk
3-5 November 2011, Thessaloniki,
Greece
The European Centre on prevention and forecasting of
earthquakes organises a training on the protection of
cultural heritage monuments and people from seismic
risk. Participants will try to put together already
existing information on comprehensive monument
management, monument vulnerability assessment,
identification of sufficient
protection measures, etc.
 Programme
Use and valorisation of water resources for
the sustainable development of arid ecosystems
13-15 November 2011, Biskra, Algeria
How to improve knowledge on water resources and its ways
of use in arid regions, how to define an approach for
the participative and territorial management of
agricultural water, how to set up an information system
on water – these are some of the objectives of the
international workshop, organised by the Scientific and
Technical Research Centre on Arid Regions in Biskra,
Algeria. For more information, please consult the
announcement of the workshop (in French).
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