“Bridging Science and Practice in Disaster Risk Management towards
Building Community Resilience” has been the main focus of a four-day
regional forum on building capacity on risk assessment in Bangkok.
The
ASEAN Capacity-Building Forum on Risk Assessment gathered experts on
disaster risk management from ASEAN member countries, representatives
from civil society groups, scholars, scientists and researchers from the
region as well as partners from Europe, Australia , and the United
States .
Representatives of three ASEAN sectoral bodies,
including the ASEAN Committee on disaster Management (ACDM), the ASEAN
Committee on Science and Technology (COST) and the ASEAN University
Network (AUN) also attended the event, the ASEAN Secretariat said on
March 26.
Opening the function, Suporn Ratananakin, Advisor to
the Director General of Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
of Thailand, representing the ACDM Chair, described the event as a
unique opportunity for ASEAN to discuss measures to bridge the gap
between science and practice.
The move aims to enhance
the synergy between these two communities and foster greater interaction
and systematic collaboration in support of disaster risk reduction, he
said.
The participants debated the development of a
framework for dialogue between disaster risk management and science
community in ASEAN, science-based risk communication and accountability
in disaster risk management.
Selected risk assessment
tools such as Comprehensive Approach for Probabilistic Risk Assessment
(CAPRA), Indonesia Scenario Assessment for Earthquakes (InaSAFE) and
Open Source Software for Seismic Hazards and Risk Assessment (OpenQuake)
were also discussed._VNA