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Expert group 2: Human Security and Vulnerability
The focus of this expert group is on enhancing
human and environmental security in large river
basins. Special emphasis will be placed on reducing
vulnerability to floods, forest fires and
technological accidents (e.g. within sewage systems
and from accidental discharges) and the risk of
potential accidents (e.g. at dams and power plants)
in the Volga river basin. The expert group will
explore major problems in the management of natural
and technological disasters and the coordination of
policies, tools and activities between diverse
groups of stakeholders in prevention, emergency
response and rehabilitation of affected populations
and livelihoods. Its major foci will be on the
following cross-cutting problems:
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How to improve the coordination of the
activities of organisations responsible for
management of natural and technological disasters,
and what tools can be used for this purpose at
each phase of disaster mitigation;
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How to effectively incorporate disaster
mitigation activities into integrated river basin
management;
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Why many of the existing strategies and
programmes in disaster mitigation in large river
basins are not always effective in practice and
disasters result in loss of life, morale and
economic welfare, and environment
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How to build stable and regular partnerships
between diverse stakeholders so as to enhance
human and environmental security against natural
and technological disasters, and how to increase
local public participation in this process
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