The Third United Nations 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.
But equally interesting and sensitive are the delegate study tours that will use Sendai's traumatic wounds from teh Tohoko earthquake of 2011 as a way to underscore the importance of sound disaster planning methodologies. Tours include the following:
- Multiple Defense Measures against Tsunami: Lessons
- Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake
- Resurrection of the Natural Environment in Tsunami-Affected Areas
- Agricultural Challenges in Tsunami-Affected Areas
- Resilient Urban Infrastructures: Wastewater Treatment Plant & Gas Plant
- Visit a School Devastated by the Tsunami
- New Concept of Our Town: Installing both disaster-resilience and eco- friendliness
- Recovery of Residents and Business in Ishinomaki: One of the Most Severely Damaged Cities
- Tohoku University Guided Tour
- Efforts of the Private Sector for Disaster Risk Reduction: Case of a Brewery in a Tsunami-Affected Area
- Disaster Prevention Education for Youth
- Disaster Risk Reduction Education for Children with Special Needs
- Efforts of the Private Sector for DRR: Experience a Disaster Drill in a Department Store
- Yuriage: A Historical Fishing Port Making Steady Progress in Recovery
- Experience Yuriage: Japanese Morning Market
- ‘Hills of 1000 Years Hope’, Hills for Tsunami- Evacuation, and Efforts of Local Residents to Build a Resilient City
- Joint Public and Private Action for Regional Disaster Prevention and Advanced Disaster Prevention
- Technology for Housing: Working Together to Build a Disaster-Resilient Town
- Aratozawa, the Trace of the Greatest Landslide Disaster: Lessons Learned from the Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake in 2008
- ‘Bosai’ Industry Fair in Sendai: The lastest DRR technologies and products
- Fukushima’s Recovery: Coastal Region Course -Efforts to recover from tsunami damage and restart the fishing industry
- Fukushima’s Recovery: Central Region Course -Safe, worry-free food
- Accelerating the reconstruction with the latest technology and passing on memory of the disaster to future generations: Rikuzentakata’s large-scale landraising projects and Ofunato’s disaster memorial
- «The Miracle of Kamaishi» and local authorities horizontal supplementation: Disaster prevention education measures in Kamaishi, and logistic support activities in Tono
- Reinvention every 1000 Years: Security measures being taken at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, using lessons learned from past disasters
- Operation Tomodachi: witness the impressive restoration of Sendai Airport and Business Continuity Management at the JX Nippon Oil Refinery
- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Decontamination and Decommission