Japan

The Asia Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) and the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) signed the cooperation agreement on establishment of the ADRC UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office (RSO) on the occasion of the 52nd session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) on 4th June 2009.

The 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Several thousand participants are expected, including at related events linked to the World Conference under the umbrella of building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.

The Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution for 2013 on International Strategy for Disaster Reduction states that the 3rd World Conference will result in a concise, focused, forward-looking, and action-oriented outcome document and will have the following objectives:

• To complete assessment and review of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action;
• To consider the experience gained through the regional and national strategies/institutions and plans for disaster risk reduction and their recommendations as well as relevant regional agreements within the implementation of the Hyogo Framework of Action;
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GeoEarth-2020 welcomes colleagues from all branches of Geosciences and from many countries in the world to participate to the second edition of thw 'World Congress on Geology and Earth Science'. The Conference will enable the sharing of best practices in Geoscience as well as exploring the role of remote sensing in monitoring Earth processes and dynamics.

The topics of the Conference include:

• Environmental Geology, 
• GIS, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Sciences, 
• Marine Geosciences and Oceanography,
• Groundwater and Hydrology: Surface Hydrology/Surface Water,
• Rock Deformation and Structural Geology,
• Volcanology and Plate Tectonics,
• Earth, Ecology and Ecosystems,
• Soil Science and Conservation of Soil Biodiversity.