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A Word to the Business Sector: Support Planning for Disaster Preparedness

Business is at the heart of this country's existence and survival.  Without business, commerce, enterprise, industry, the services sector, even the informal economy, government alone or the people on their own, cannot provide employment to everyone.



In the face of this reality, it behooves business organizations to secure their future. To provide safety.  To make the working place conducive to productivity.  To generate more income for itself and those that benefit from it.



But even business has to plan for contingencies. And this is why most businesses have data back ups, file banks located outside of their own headquaters, amongst many others, including stored resources in cases of sudden emergency when a business' main operating base is paralyzed.



The enormity of loss and damage can be prevented, if proper planning is undertaken. There ought to be a meeting of minds between those in the business and other sectors of society to make this actually happen.



The Private Sector embarks on an initiative towards this end. If crime prevention is encouragingly moving towards positive directions, or United Nations peacekeeping forces are able to more or less predict the occurrence of new flash points and real violent incidents and provide measures to limit the casualties and damage, business and the other sectors can plan ahead to hinder the tremendous losses caused by disasters.



We want to encourage the Philippine Government, Asian Governments, combines like the United Nations, ASEAN and financial institutions like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, among many others, including the Grameen Bank to support this milestone activity the 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit in Manila from the remainder of 2009 up to 2010.  The conference proper will take place in April 8-15, 2010 at Manila, Philippines.

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The Resource Recovery Movement will hold the first 2010 Hazards Mapping and Environment Summit (Eco 2010 Summit) in Manila, Philippines. This is ultimately borne about by the tremendous changing of the Philippine landscape and those of other countries in the Pacific Rim in the last few decades. All efforts towards risk mapping in relation to calamities and disasters in the past should now take into consideration the great shifts and transformations in land mass, the enormous amount of rainfall brought about by Climate Change and many new factors that were heretofore not factored into national and sub-national planning by governments as well as even by business establishments and non-government organizations.

Click this link to sign up: Join Resource Recovery Movement!

The 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit (HMES) is intended to develop better approaches to mapping risks and dangers to communities in the Philippines and other countries with tropical climates. It takes a cue from the recent experience in China, Indonesia and the Philippines, notwithstanding the previous experiences in Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan where scores of people died due to unforeseen occurrences during the incidence of a natural disaster: earthquake, typhoon, tsunami and other calamities. The databasing, mapping and full coordination of efforts towards use and sharing of a full function GIS on hazards, volcanoes, water, flood, forests in the Philippines and Asia, vulnerability areas, liquefaction potential, crisis and hot spots is long due because of the long-running phenomenon of Climate Change in the planet. This is also significant in that the Philippines, among other countries, lies in the Pacific Rim of Fire where a large number of earthquake faults lie.

The most important value of the conference is to determine the plan and the cost of implementing such a plan to make the Philippines and other participating nations safer from increasingly hazardous calamities.

Note: The organizers reserve the right to make minor changes in the Conference details prior to the actual Event.

HMES 2010 Organizers

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