“Planning for Disaster Prone Areas: Approaches, Strategies and Experience from Haiti”
29–30 April 2011 | TU Dortmund
Whether in Haiti, Pakistan or Japan – natural disasters destroy human lives and large amounts of capital. Every crisis has its lesson, however. In this spirit, the 18 members of the Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies (SPRING) Masters program invite scholars and specialists in the area of disaster management to take part in an international workshop. Working with first-hand reports and case studies, workshop participants will explore potential best practices for emergency disaster situations.
Travelogue:
“We might know a lot, but we don’t seem to learn from it”
Interviews:
Mark Fleischhauer: “There’s always residual risk”
Johannes Horstmann: “Good Planning Can Save Lives”
From the workshop:
Image gallery at facebook
Impressions from Dortmund
“In one of the presentations I saw pictures of land in Jordan that was utterly laid to waste and how they are now in the process of being landscaped. Landscapes like these are familiar to me, from my home. I was emboldened by those images. They showed me that change is possible.”
John Gastho Nikoko from Tanzania studies “Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies” at the Technische Universität Dortmund (TU Dortmund)
“I’ve often wondered: how is it that people can starve in fertile regions like my own home province of Chocó? I have learned through both my studies and the talks in Dortmund that much of the blame can be placed on bad planning and poor infrastructure.”
Yineida Lozano from Colombia studies “Infrastructure Planning” at the University of Stuttgart
“The increase in natural disasters due to climate change is terrible – but there is hope. Our world is changing, and we’ve got to change with it. Dortmund gave me some very important insights as a planner – for example: it’s important to plan with the people and not for them.”
Mustapha Haruna from Ghana studies “Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies” at the Technische Universität Dortmund (TU Dortmund)
Event: Two-day seminar + workshop
Participants: Students from the SPRING programme at TU Dortmund
Program Chair: Dr. Anne Weber
anne.weber@tu-dortmund.de
