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1.5 Disaster Management

Developing a reliable information collection and sharing system is the first step of proactive disaster management toward engaging with internal and external stakeholders and understanding their information needs and expectations. The aims of Technical Committee 1.5 "Disaster Management" are to study disaster management techniques using Big Data and Social Network Data as well as to analyze the financial aspect of disaster management in preparedness, mitigation response, and recovery phase, and to update the Disaster Management Manual. (extract from the Strategic Plan)

Issue

  • 1.5.1 Information and communication in disaster management
  • 1.5.2 Financial aspects of disaster management
  • 1.5.3 Update the Disaster Management Manual

Chair and Secretariat

  • Chair: Yukio ADACHI (Japan)
  • English-speaking Secretary: Neil FISHER (New Zealand)
  • French-speaking Secretary: Alain LEFEBVRE (Belgium)
  • Spanish-speaking Secretary: Marcelo MEDINA SANTIBANEZ (Chile)

Interview with Yukio Adachi

Technical Committee 1.5 "Disaster Management" Chair

With more than 30 years of expertise in expressway engineering, Yukio Adachi (Japan), Executive Director, has been very involved with the Association since the 2012-2015 cycle. English-speaking secretary of PIARC's technical committees "Risk Management" for the 2012-2015 cycle and then "Disaster Management" for the 2016-2019 cycle, Yukio has been appointed president of this committee for the 2020-2023 cycle.

Interviewed during the kick-off meetings of this cycle in February 2020 in Marne-la-Vallée (France), Yukio explains the objectives of the committee 1.3 "Disaster Management".

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