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University of the South Pacific disaster awareness presentation

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AusAid Lecture Theatre, USP
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The University of the South Pacific (USP) will celebrate the International Day for Disaster Reduction on Wednesday, 12th of October by hosting Disaster Awareness Presentations.

Enrolled USP students will present to fellow students on the disaster occurrences, trends and policies for major disaster types in the Pacific namely: droughts and fire, tsunami and earthquakes, flooding and hurricane/cyclones. Comments will be invited from the audience, however, the emphasis will be on a youth-to-youth communication and awareness raising.

There will also be audience from other Pacific islands countries who are in Suva to attend the USP hosted Pacific Writeshop on disaster risk reduction and climate change organized by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the University of the South Pacific (USP), with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).

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http://www.usp.ac.fj/

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